My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.