Think back to when you were 24 years old. What were you doing? Were you in college, or starting your first job? Perhaps you were getting married, or maybe you were working on your master’s degree.

The great artist Michelangelo, I recently learned, had just finished his famous “Pietà” sculpture at age 24. How’s that for putting yourself and your accomplishments in their place?

The comments on the above Tweet are revealing. One individual asked why we don’t have artists like Michelangelo anymore, while another noted, “The geniuses of a few artists, composers and scientists make me wonder if we were really created equally.”

That last commenter hit on the problem with one little word: “equally.” Equality is everywhere today. We urge equal rights for women and equality between the races. We

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