The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now

Many twentysomethings assume life will come together quickly after thirty, and maybe it will. But it is still going to be a different life. We imagine that if nothing happens in our twenties then everything is still possible in our thirties. We think that by avoiding decisions now, we keep all of our options open for later. But not making choices i

something to remind them that life is going to continue on past their twenties, and that it might even be great.

whatever it is we want to change about ourselves, our twenties are the easiest time to change it. The risk is that we may not act now.

Many cultures make use of memento mori to remind us of our mortality, the skeletons and dying flowers often represented in art or on display in the marketplace. In past centuries, it was common to sit for portraits while holding a dead rose or to carry a watch shaped like a skull in order to signify time running out. In my practice, I notice that m