You’ll sometimes hear these days that 30 is the new 20, and the importance of moving towards career, relationship, and finance goals in your twenties gets overlooked.
When it comes to the latter category, it may seem like getting your financial house in order is something you can work on once you settle down and start your “real life.”
Read More The best and worst part about being a twenty-something is that every decision you make can change the rest of your life. Once you’re in your 30’s or 40’s, it gets harder and harder to reinvent yourself. In this Q&A with Dr. Meg Jay, the clinical psychologist explains why the twenties matter, and how to make the most of them.
Read More As part of the Sundance Author Series, Meg Jay will be speaking about Supernormal on November 18, 2017.
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Clinical psychologist Meg Jay is here to talk about how you can take control of your future (and you don’t need to be a college grad to benefit from her advice). Ask her your questions in the comments!
Read More A few months ago I had lunch with a former student named Lucy Fleming, one of the best writers I’ve taught. I asked her what she had learned in her first year out of college. She said she had been forced to think differently.
While in school, her thinking was station to station: take that test, apply to that college, aim for a degree. But in young adulthood, there are no more stations. Everything is open seas. Your main problems are not about the assignment right in front of you; they are about the horizon far away. What should you be steering toward? It requires an entirely different set of navigational skills.
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FutureProofing is a series in which presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson examine the implications – social and cultural, economic and political – of the big ideas that are set to transform the way oursociety functions.
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Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomethings: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade. In this provocative talk, Jay says that just because marriage, work and kids are happening later in life, doesn’t mean you can’t start planning now. She gives 3 pieces of advice for how twentysomethings can re-claim adulthood in the defining decade of their lives.
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“How do we explain resilience?”
Today, Dr. Meg Jay hosted a workshop where she challenged TEDActive attendees to think about “resilience.” Meg gave a talk in 2013 based on some of her research on twentysomethings. Her first book was titled “The Defining Decade: Why your twenties matter — and how to make the most of them now.” This workshop was part of her research for her next book. Her workshop titled “Are You Supernormal?” was a conversation about her upcoming book, adversity and the secrets we keep.
Read More This is the second of two shows on women in their twenties. Last time we heard from two young women talking about communication problems, confidence, and the competition they’re up against. This time two women in their forties look back at the twenties from their perspective.
Read More For some the twenties are a fun, relatively carefree time (who are these people?), but for many women this decade is stressful. They’re trying to work out how they fit into the workplace, whether they’re even in the right career, and how to communicate with older colleagues. The world is far more competitive than it was 20-plus years ago when I started working. But that’s not the only thing that’s different about the old me and today’s twenty-somethings.
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