The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter

The Defining Decade serves as a powerful reminder that the choices made during your twenties have lasting implications. By focusing on identity capital, intentionality, and meaningful relationships, you can lay a strong foundation for a fulfilling life ahead. Meg Jay's insights encourage readers to embrace this pivotal decade with purpose and clarity.
Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of which has trivialized what is actually the most defining decade of adulthood.

Drawing from almost two decades of work with hundreds of clients and students, THE DEFINING DECADE weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with the behind-closed-doors stories from twentysomethings, themselves. The result is a provocative read that provides the tools necessary to make the most of your twenties, and shows us how work, relationships, personality, social networks, identity, and even the brain can change more during this decade than at any other time in adulthood -- if we use the time wisely.

• Format Paperback | 336 pages
• Publication date 15 Apr 2016
• Publisher RANDOM HOUSE
• Language English
• ISBN13 9781782114925