• Sagrotan@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I don’t believe in the whole “peaking too early” thing, you can grow any day of your life, even if you’ve seen and done all, learn and open your eyes. “Peaking” after what standards? What does that even mean? Imo it’s like accepting your cognitive limits & that I could never and will never do as long as I breathe.

  • acrobaticpenguin23@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Eric Heiden 5 gold medals at just 21 years old. Retired shortly afterward to dabble in cycling and then become a mundane orthepedic surgeon.

    Also Jerry Mather’s aka ‘The Beaver’ still milking his long ago celebrity decades later.