![]() ![]() She navigates these sometimes emotionally charged conversations with her clients with tact and backs it up with sound neurological and psychological research. In their stories, I felt like I was having a one-to-one conversation with Dr Jay, raising these adulting issues with a trusted mentor. The guy who stressed out picking a direction for his life, so he opted not to choose and drift along. The coffee barista waiting for the right opportunity. The woman stuck in a ‘meh’ relationship just because she thought she couldn’t influence that decision. In many of these stories, I saw either myself, or people who I know. My life should look better on Facebook, right? I can screw around in my twenties, cos it gets better in my thirties, right? I don’t know what I want to do, so I should go and ‘find myself’, right? ![]() ![]() Through her experience as a clinical psychologist and lecturer working with twenty-somethings, Dr Jay shares stories about twenty-somethings struggling with issues a lot of us identify with: The Defining Decade is essential reading for anybody in their twenty-something years. Many have no idea what they will be doing, where they will be living, or who they will be with in two or even ten yearsT There are fifty million twenty somethings in the United States (alone), most of whom are living with a staggering, unprecedented amount of uncertainty. Enter Dr Meg Jay’s stern, warning to us all NOT to squander your twenties in her book The Defining Decade. ![]()
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