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Twentysomething jobs teach us about regulating our emotions and negotiating the complicated social interactions that make up adult life. Twentysomething work and school are our best chance to acquire the technical, sophisticated skills needed in so many careers today. Twentysomething relationships prepare us for marriage and other partnerships.
... See moreMeg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Meg Jay • 3 highlights
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The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Meg Jay • 6 highlights
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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
Back and forth it goes, as work and love and the brain knit together in the twenties to make us into the adults we want to be in our thirties and beyond.
Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Contrary to what we see and hear, reaching your potential isn’t even something that usually happens in your twenties—it happens in your thirties or forties or fifties.
Meg Jay • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
Critiquing the 'genius' label, exploring healthy self-doubt, and contrasting modern views with the historical concept of 'having a genius'.
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and pretty soon we start to inflate egos into a trap of narcissism. Right.
And I want to ask you something, because I can't remember who it was who said, after, you know, having their first big success, they felt really unhappy and they felt really worried that like, has the biggest success I've ever had in my life happened? Like,
... See moreMost of these changes are about making adult commitments—to bosses, partners, leases, roommates—and these commitments shift how we are in the world and who we are inside.