The professional and personal angst of directionless twentysomethings is given a voice and some sober counsel in this engaging guide. Meg Jay takes the specific complaints of twenty something life and puts them to diagnostic use.- New YorkerĪny recent college grad mired in a quarter-life crisis or merely dazed by the freedom of post-collegiate existence should consider it required reading.-, Staff Pick

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A social experiment in which 'digital natives' go without their phones.

29 conversations to have with your partner-or to keep in mind as you search for one.What a decade of device use has taught us about looking at friends-and looking for love-online.

Up-to-date research on work, love, the brain, friendship, technology, and fertility.

The result is a provocative read that provides the tools necessary to take the most of your twenties, and shows us how work, relationships, personality, identity and even the brain can change more during this decade than at any other time in adulthood-if we use the time well. In The Defining Decade, Meg Jay argues that twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of which has trivialized the most transformative time of our lives.ĭrawing from more than two decades of work with thousands of clients and students, Jay weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with behind-closed-doors stories from twentysomethings themselves. Some say they are an extended adolescence. Our 'thirty-is-the-new-twenty' culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Revised and reissued for a new generation, let it change how you think about you and yours. The Defining Decade has changed the way millions of twentysomethings think about their twenties-and themselves.

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