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If you think that your twenties don't matter, you haven't been paying attention to your elders—or for that matter, with your slightly older peers. As her title notes, clinical psychologist Meg Jay believes that the twenties are indeed the defining decade, the time of transition that usually sets the course of our entire future. For more than a decade, Dr. Jay has been working with hundreds of twenty-something clients and students, sharing with them what scientists, social scientists, and other experts now know about this important stage of adult development. A great gift for graduates and soon-to-be grads. Now in trade paperback and NOOK Book.
Overview
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 a decade of work with hundreds of twentysomething clients and students, THE DEFINING DECADE ...