You may not want to hear this (I certainly didn't when I felt similarly)...but perspective does change with age/personal life...with all due respect do you have kids? A partner? Any major commitments outside work? That's an enormous part of OP's statement.
People don't stop being talented/smart when they have kids/families/personal lives...but they will have less time and their perspectives do change.
It's a balance/spectrum where most of us end up somewhere in between two cliches: do what you love and you never work a day in your life on one end & work to live not live to work on the other.
People don't stop being talented/smart when they have kids/families/personal lives...but they will have less time and their perspectives do change.
It's a balance/spectrum where most of us end up somewhere in between two cliches: do what you love and you never work a day in your life on one end & work to live not live to work on the other.