Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

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I spend a lot of time for internet, but I have to change right now

So what I'm hearing is that on top of procrastinating our homework, we're procrastinating our lives until it's too late. And ending up cramming out of fear…except its for careers and life partners instead of assignments lmao

I just read her book Defining Decade and this TEDtalk is basically the Sparknotes for the first half of the book. She even specifically called out her first few chapter titles in this talk. The book is way better and more detailed. Some of these things wouldn't have made sense to me if I hadn't read the book.

Here is my working tip for everyone: Live your life with your own needs in mind and touch grass as often as you can.

Watching this at 28 and I wish I had watched this sooner. But well, it isn’t too late. I’m gonna come back to this video in two years when I’m 30 and hopefully I would have turned my life around.

I watched this video when I was in my 20s and it changed my life! Thank you!

please, i’m begging you, if you enjoyed this ted talk, READ HER BOOK the Defining Decade. it will change your life.

I work at a swim school right now. I guess that’s an investment into what I become later. Idk rn

Are you sure???? Cause I will have only just graduated college by 30. And I’m still single

Does anyone know whether Meg Jay has a family/ children herself?

I was in 31 age now still alone ,I saw the video when I was 28 I changed my career from an enginner to be an creator ,I'm not good at communitcating with people,my personality is INFP ,I have wasted too much time beacause of losing confident to do something and stay in my own world ,people shuold always look back and check paln ,otherwise nothing happend ,

She's completely right, chances un life getting less and less after 25.

I came across this video when I was 24, and watching it again now, I realize how much it has helped shape the decisions I make today. At that time, I was paralyzed by depression and plagued with suicidal thoughts. Now, as I approach my 27th birthday this June, I find myself in a much better place, a place I never thought I could reach.

By the grace of God, I was able to make up for lost time. I finished my master's degree in public law and specialized in the fight against corruption. I have made personal decisions that I never imagined I would have the courage to make. Today, I feel great and am approaching 30 with much more peace than I felt at 25.

Thank you so much. You have influenced my journey and saved my life. Be blessed.

I don’t know if this is helpful to me. I rather am anxious about “am I doing enough” and “am I where I want to be at my age” and things like that, so maybe I’m just not the target group. But it does sound like she’s generalising a fair bit, not every 20something is “wasting” their 20s… but again, idk if I’m the same demographic she talks about

I am 20 y.o going to be 21. I hope after I watched this video, I really take it seriously about my life and don't waste my time on the things or people who don't give any value to my life just because I am young. I promise I won't do that.

watching this video as being 23, i’m scared so bad. i’m not with anyone. i don’t have job. i’m just killing time spending time being alone and reading comic books. now is the time to change about myself.

By 26 I was a decorated combat veteran with an engineering degree, had run marathons, was good looking and energetic. I had “the world” at my fingertips. I then got addicted to drugs at that point in order to medicate PTSD and insomnia. I “wasted” 10 years being a completely insane person winding up in mental hospitals every few months while not being able to get out of bed for years feeling like an abject failure and a loser. I didn’t hit rock bottom; I was dragged along the sea floor for a decade. And it made me a better, more compassionate human being. Sometimes we need to lose course and wander in the wilderness of despair and destitution before we awaken spiritually. I would never want to go through that again. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. But that was my path. In retrospect, there was no real way of avoiding it. I was suffering a great deal and it was only a matter of time before I realized drugs really help with that (until they don’t). No Ted talk could have saved me. I needed to go through the fire.