I think this idea that people have life figured out, or that they haven't more figured out than you'd expect, actually stems from childhood. We're just constantly bombarded with this idea we need to pick some path, and often that's before we've even explored any paths. And at the point at which you have the least data on what you want to do, then that flows into college as well. I'm currently writing an article about this, but i think this broadly speaks to something which i call cultural gravity.

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