How to make the most of your twenties with Meg Jay
Worklife with Adam Grant
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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
How important are your twenties — and how bad are they? Meg Jay is a clinical psychologist who specializes in young adult development in twenty year-olds. She and Adam review the science of what makes this developmental period important, discuss the common mistakes that we make, and share tips for twentysomethings (and parents) navigating this tumultuous decade. Meg’s latest book, The Twentysomething Treatment, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. Stay updated on Everything Business on Ted Business, a podcast hosted by |
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| 0:18.9 | you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions like, |
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| 0:27.6 | Get some surprising answers on Ted Business |
| 0:30.0 | wherever you listen to podcasts. Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick |
| 0:41.0 | with the TED Audio Collective. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking what makes us tick with the TED Audio Collective. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm an organizational psychologist |
| 0:44.7 | and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people |
| 0:47.6 | to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking. |
| 0:57.1 | My guest today is Meg Jay. She's a clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia and the world's leading expert on the quarter life crisis. |
| 1:01.0 | I've been doing it 25 years which I kind of can't believe when I say that |
| 1:04.9 | but when I went to grad school there was no such thing as specializing in 20-some things. |
| 1:11.1 | There was adult development but nobody really knew what that was because |
| 1:15.8 | you know people would say I thought adults were already developed, but everything that |
| 1:19.3 | happens between 20 and 100 is adult development. |
| 1:22.6 | But I lived in a college town, and so I ended up working |
| 1:26.2 | with a lot of college students and young adults. |
| 1:28.6 | And then the more I learned about the adult development |
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