Best Of: Meg Jay Helps Us Navigate, Understand, And Review Our Twenties

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

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What do you remember about being in your twenties? Maybe it was the best time of your life. Maybe it brought challenges that you had to learn to overcome as you entered adulthood.

And if you're in your twenties now, life probably looks a lot different for you than it did for your parents.

Meg Jay is a psychologist and author. In her new book, "The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age," she explores the way our twenties set up the rest of our lives, and how the uncertainties that come with entering adulthood affect our brain.

We sit down with her to talk about growing up, becoming an adult, and how our twenties stay with us all our lives.

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0:00.0	What does it sound like to record an album inside a jail?
0:05.0	On the documentary podcast, Track Change, you'll hear four men make music inside Richmond City
0:10.6	Jail and hear how they're trying to break free from a cycle of addiction and incarceration.
0:16.2	Been so long since I've been free.
0:19.4	Listen to track change, from Narratively and VPM part of the NPR Network. What do you remember about being in your 20s? Maybe it was the best time of your life.
0:37.0	Maybe it brought challenges that you had to learn to overcome as you entered adulthood.
0:41.0	As Carrie Bradshaw explains, our 20s are full of
0:44.1	contradictions. That week back in the city I wondered what was the allure of the 20s?
0:49.7	On one hand, there is great skin tone, the thrill of fresh experience in the sense of a consequence
0:54.9	free life full of seemingly endless possibilities.
0:57.9	While on the other, there are horrible apartments, sexually inexperienced men and embarrassing errors in fashion judgment.
1:05.0	If you're in your 20s today, life is probably a lot different than it was in 1999 when that
1:09.9	episode of Sex and the City first aired.
1:12.2	Hi, J.J. from San Diego, born and raised.
1:15.0	I am 27 years old.
1:16.7	I would say that my 20s have been too much less,
1:20.7	to say the least.
1:21.8	I turned 18, and the very first election I ever voted in was
1:24.8	Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that set the stage for my young adulthood. I would
1:29.8	say since then things have been not great. My biggest worry going forward is just finances. I honestly don't know if I will ever be able to afford the house that I grew up in. I don't know if my support system being my parents are prepared to enter retirement and take care of themselves going forward.
1:50.0	And I don't know where I'm going to be in the future even though I do have some opportunity going to pursue a grad program.
1:57.0	It's all just kind of up in the air and that is a footing that is not comfortable to exist in.
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