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A research project exploring what happens to people who achieve extraordinary success — early, suddenly, or completely. We’re gathering stories from every field.
What DID you do? →
The Geeks’ Guide to Retirement
A research project exploring what happens to people who achieve extraordinary success — early, suddenly, or completely. We’re gathering stories from every field.
What DID you do? →Every culture has a framework for winning. School, sport, business — we know how to chase the prize. What we don’t have is a framework for what comes next.
This is a research project — and eventually a book — exploring what happens to people who win too early, too completely, or too suddenly. The eighteen-year-old world champion. The footballer who retires at 24 with $50 million. The crypto millionaire at 22. The prodigy who plays Carnegie Hall before they can drive.
We have a hypothesis: that the paths people take after their peak aren’t random. That there are patterns. The interviews and submissions will tell us if we’re right — or reveal something more interesting entirely.
The fall is faster than the rise. The child actor in rehab. The sports prodigy who can’t find meaning after the medal.
Living on legacy. Not a disaster — but not growth. Cashing a reputation that stopped compounding twenty years ago.
A full stop, then a fresh start. Serial reinvention — each time beginning again from scratch in an entirely different field.
The peak was never the destination. The climb simply continues. For this archetype, enough is a concept that doesn’t compute.
We’re looking for people who have experienced extraordinary early success — in any field, at any age. Tell us your story. Selected respondents will be invited to interview for the book.
Take the survey →Anonymous submissions welcome · Dr Tim O’Neill · Peninsula Publishing