Begin to own your long term career now.Ģ. She recommends not getting ‘stuck’ in jobs that you know are not a good fit for you. Jay also talks a lot about underemployment in our twenties.

Identity capital can also be obtained by getting involved in your community and serving in leadership positions in young professional groups.ĭr. Identity capital can be built by working, focusing on what you are good at and continuing to get better at it. While other identity capital is personal to you, think how you look and how you speak. Some identity capital is related to work, think your job and degrees. Jay talks about our need to invest in identity capital. It is the repertoire of individual resources that we assemble over time.” Dr. Jay writes, “Identity capital is our collection of personal assets. I will highlight a few chapters in each section. The book gives advice then reinforces said advice with stories of clients that Dr.

The book The Defining Decade was one of the best and most inspiring books I have read (and I read a lot of books).The book is broken into three core parts: work, love, and the brain & the body. Psychologist Meg Jay not only believes this, but wrote a book and delivered a TED talk on the subject. Unlike what we have heard, 30 is not the new 20 and the twenties can’t be ignored or thrown away. The Defining Decade is a smart, compassionate and constructive book about the years we cannot afford to miss.The defining decade - AKA your twenties. The result is a provocative read that provides the tools necessary to make the most of your twenties, and shows us how work, relationships, personality, social networks, identity, and even the brain can change more during this decade than at any other time in adulthood-if we use the time wisely. Drawing from almost two decades of work with hundreds of clients and students, The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with the behind-closed-doors stories from twentysomethings, themselves. 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. Our thirty-is-the-new-twenty culture tells us the twentysomething years dont matter. Meg Jay uses real stories from real lives to provide smart, compassionate, and constructive advice about the crucial (and difficult) years we cannot afford to miss. New York Times bestselling psychologist Dr.

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