hwabro.blogg.se - The defining decade 20 book

When a lot has been left to do, there is enormous thirtysomething pressure to get ahead, get married, pick a city, make money, buy a house, enjoy life, go to graduate school, start a business, get a promotion, save for college and retirement, and have two or three children in a much shorter period of time.

we may not recognize the most impactful events in our lives as they happen.

The most substantial and lasting events - those that led to career success, family fortune, personal bliss or lack thereof - developed across days or weeks or months with little immediate dramatic effect.

About 80 percent of life’s most significant events take place by age 35.

In a study of life-span development, researchers found important events that determined the years ahead were most heavily concentrated during the twenties.

She spent her own early twentysomething years as an Outward Bound instructor.

She is a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia and maintains a private practice in Charlottesville. Jay is a clinical psychologist who specializes in adult development and in twentysomethings in particular. Your twenties are a time when the things you do - and the things you don't do - will have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come. The result is a provocative, poignant read that shows why, far from being an irrelevant downtime, your twenties are a developmental sweetspot that comes only once.

In her psychology practice and her book, The Defining Decade, clinical psychologist Meg Jay suggests that many twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation about what Time magazine calls the " Me Me Me Generation." The rhetoric that "30 is the new 20," she suggests, trivializes what is actually the most transformative period of adult life.ĭrawing from more than twenty years of work with thousands of twentysomething clients and students, Jay weaves science together with compelling, behind-closed-doors stories.