Often our interpretation of success is anchored in age patterns: we must graduate by that age, get promoted by that age, be successful – whatever that means for each of us – no later than year X. Typically , in this schematism there is also an age beyond which it would no longer be possible to do much of our lives. Here, perhaps we should arm ourselves with a pickaxe and destroy these deleterious ideas.
If only because of examples of there are several people who have achieved great professional successes in old age. One that is often cited is that of the writer Andrea Camilleriwhose books began to be popular well after the age of 50, thanks above all to the famous character of Montalbano who appears in one of his detective novels from 1994, when he was 69 years old.
Obviously, for women too, there is no age limit to achieve success. Indeed, for some it is precisely after the age of fifty that the best fruits of professional sowing are harvested. Forbes it has identified fifty, active in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; among these, we have selected ten that have distinguished themselves in different sectors, from the economic one to that of fashion, passing through the highest political and economic institutions.
You can find them below with their extraordinary achievements and, yes, with their current age which is to be interpreted as an extreme source of pride.
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