on your 20s

In your 20s, you are setting your foundational habits for life.

This is perhaps most tangible when it comes to your physical and mental health. Yes, you can make massive life changes after 30, it’s true, but it’s easier in your 20s. Solidifying healthy habits is a form of self-respect.

Catherine Shannon • How to Make the Most of Your 20s

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

Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

We’re not the first cohort to experience a crisis. To experience the passing of time. And by passing of time, I mean the dawning realisation that time is finite, and we might have already wasted a lot. We used to have time to burn. But it was a late blooming into misery.

While Gen Xers and Baby Boomers before us had these realisations by 25, for Mil... See more

Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy

quarter life crisis - video essay

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One of the main things you should try to achieve by age 20 is some sense for which kinds of things you enjoy doing. This probably won't change a lot throughout your life and so you should try to discover the shape of that space as quickly as you can.

patrickcollison.com • Advice · Patrick Collison

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.

Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

ugh but this urgency is so stressful it’s borderline paralysing

Hobby Seasons: a chill take on time management

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