A series of remarkable studies conducted by British behavioral scientists over a twenty-eight-year period confirmed that what we love and do well at as children continues to be our latent or real talent as adults. The lives of fifty individuals were tracked; evaluations began at age seven, and reevaluations took place every seven years until each reached the age of thirty-five.
Incredibly, nearly all of the subjects eventually ended up engaged in a professional pursuit related to their interests during the age span of seven through fourteen. Although most of them had discarded or strayed from those interests from ages fifteen to twenty-one and beyond, virtually all found their way back to recapture their early childhood dreams by the age of thirty-five, even if only as a hobby or an avocation.
Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, Timing Is Everything, by Denis Waitley