#meg jay

[outstanding-quotes]

It takes time to build a good life.

Meg Jay, The Twentysomething Treatment

[anxsity]

"Things get better only when we let new and better people in. Things get better when we let new and better people care about us or love us, or when we at least listen to - and believe - what they have to say."

Meg Jay, PhD, "The Defining Decade"

[theillustrated-woman]

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

Pink Floyd

[roguestarsailor]

The problem with feeling distant from the future is that distance leads to abstraction, and abstraction leads to distance, and round and round it goes. The further away love and work seem, the less we need to think about them; the less we think about love and work, the further away they feel. I started to sketch out a timeline to bring the future closer and to make Rachel’s thinking more concrete.

Meg Jay, PHD, The Defining Decade

[petitelypackaged]

Hi all,

Whether you’re backpacking across a continent, starting a new job, or still doing your normal 9-5, it is my hope summer is treating you well. Since graduation has come and gone, I’ve picked up an internship and worked a couple of freelance gigs. Between all of that and binge watching the most recent Netflix series, I’ve found time to pick up some of the books on my Goodreads list. Similar to my Summer 16 Reading List, there’s a mix of reading for fun and reading for personal growth. Without further ado, here is what’s on my bookshelf.

READ MORE

[anxsity]

"There is a certain terror that goes along with saying 'My life is up to me.' It is scary to realize that you can't just wait around, that no one can really rescue you, and that you - and only you - just have to do something."

Meg Jay, PhD, "The Defining Decade"

[anxsity]

"The one thing I have learned is that you can't think your way through life. The only way to figure out what to do is to do - something."

Meg Jay, PhD, "The Defining Decade"

[frommyfavoritebooks]

Knowing you want to do something isn't the same as knowing how to do it, and even knowing how to do something isn't the same as actually doing it well.

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter, Dr. Meg Jay