The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Meg Jay
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“Twentysomethings who don't feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.”
“It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically”
“For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing.”
“Being confused about choices is nothing more than hoping that maybe there is a way to get through life without taking charge.”
“Traveling in a third-world country is the closest thing there is to being married and raising kids. You have glorious hikes and perfect days on the beach. You go on adventures you would never try, or enjoy, alone. But you also can't get away from each other. Everything is unfamiliar. Money is tight or you get robbed. Someone gets sick or sunburned. You get bored. It is harder than you expected, but you are glad you didn't just sit home.”
“While most would agree with Socrates that, "the unexamined life is not worth living," a lesser-known quote by Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: "The unlived life is not worth examining.”
“Forward thinking doesn't just come with age. It comes with practice and experience. That's why some twenty-two-year-olds are incredibly self-possessed, future-oriented people who already know how to face the unknown, while some thirty-four-year-olds still have brains that run the other way.”
“I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future.”
“Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better”
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