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The Defining Decade Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now

Meg Jay

Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us that the twentysomething years don't matter. Some say they are an extended adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. But thirty is not the new twenty. In this enlightening book, Dr. Meg Jay reveals how many twentysomethings have been caught...

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The Mel Robbins Podcast

The book was highlighted as the seminal guide on why the 20s matter and how to make the most of them, with data on earnings, relationships, and brain development. It was referenced multiple times as a bestseller and source of concrete advice for listeners.

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That book is called The Defining Decade, Why Your 20s Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now.

— Episode: What I Wish I Knew in My 20s

Episode: What I Wish I Knew in My 20s

The book was highlighted as the seminal guide on why the 20s matter and how to make the most of them, with data on earnings, relationships, and brain development. It was referenced multiple times as a bestseller and source of concrete advice for listeners.

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That book is called The Defining Decade, Why Your 20s Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now.

I want to read to you from your bestselling book, Defining Decade. The world of work has officially been disrupted, which means there are more choices but more confusion too.

I want to read from page 207 in your bestselling book, The Defining Decade. Being single while you're young may be glorified in the press, but staying single across the 20s does not typically feel good.

I read your book for my kids and realized it was exactly the book that I needed as a 40something.

Your bestselling book, The Defining Decade, includes a chapter called 29 conversations that helps people clarify what they want before dating.

Today, Explained

The book was mentioned in passing as another work authored by Meg Jay, a developmental clinical psychologist.

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My name is Meg Jay. I'm a developmental clinical psychologist and the author of The 20-something Treatment and The Defining Decade.

— Episode: How antidepressants got political

Episode: How antidepressants got political

The book was mentioned in passing as another work authored by Meg Jay, a developmental clinical psychologist.

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My name is Meg Jay. I'm a developmental clinical psychologist and the author of The 20-something Treatment and The Defining Decade.

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The Viall Files

The hosts highlighted the book as a bestseller that offered guidance for twenty‑somethings facing relationship uncertainty and underemployment. Nick noted its advice about choosing a direction when feeling lost, while Susie Evans pointed out the author’s warnings about the harms of underemployment. Both episodes presented it as essential reading for making the most of the twenties.

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Episode: E540 Ask Nick - My Mom Runs My Dating Apps

The hosts referenced MegJay's bestseller while discussing how to navigate uncertain relationship periods.

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the defining decade this book um by this awesome psychologist she says you know sometimes like you feel like you're in the middle of the ocean and you don't know which way land is and you just got to pick a direction.

Episode: E514 Freestyle with Susie Evans Plus PCA Drama

The hosts referenced the book while discussing underemployment in one's twenties, noting that the author talks about the challenges of being underemployed.

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In the book The Defining Decade, like the psychologist who wrote it talks a lot about being underemployed in your 20s and how sometimes being underemployed is almost more damaging than being unemployed.

Episode: E514 Freestyle with Susie Evans Plus PCA Drama

They referred to the book while discussing underemployment, noting that a psychologist had written it.

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in the book The Defining Decade like the psychologist who wrote it

The Fox News Rundown

Dr. Meg Jay mentioned her previous book, The Defining Decade, which she recommended to every graduate and their parents, emphasizing the importance of putting in the time and effort during one's twenties to improve the rest of their life.

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So your other book is The Defining Decade which I recommend to every graduate and their parents.

— Episode: Unrest Creating Unease for The Biden Cam...

Episode: Unrest Creating Unease for The Biden Campaign

Dr. Meg Jay mentioned her previous book, The Defining Decade, which she recommended to every graduate and their parents, emphasizing the importance of putting in the time and effort during one's twenties to improve the rest of their life.

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So your other book is The Defining Decade which I recommend to every graduate and their parents.

It's about how you have to really put in the time and effort in your 20s because then the rest of your life gets better.

What I thought was very interesting in reading your book and knowing both of them is that from The Defining Decade to the 20-something treatment enough time passed that there were some big differences in new material that you could use.

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