The Defining Decade

A revised and reissued edition for a new generation of The Defining Decade , a book that has changed the way millions of twenty-somethings think about their twenties - and themselves

Meg Jay takes the specific complaints of twentysomething life and puts them to diagnostic use

Any recent college graduate mired in a quarter-life crisis or merely dazed by the freedom of post-collegiate existence should consider it required reading

What a relief to open The Defining Decade by Meg Jay. Jay recognises that twentysomethings today are facing different issues from their parents, but that doesn't mean we are victims of circumstance . . . [she] is not letting young people off the hook

I strongly recommend The Defining Decade for anyone in their 20s trying to figure out their life's direction. You'll learn how to search productively, how to avoid being indulgent, and how to turn good opportunities into great ones

The Defining Decade is the book twentysomethings have been waiting for. It will not tell you what you should do with your life, but it will inspire, motivate, and educate you to figure it out

The Defining Decade is eye-opening, important, and a pleasure to read. I highly recommend it

Meg Jay , PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and an Associate Professor of Human Development at the University of Virginia. She earned a doctorate in clinical psychology and in gender studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Her books The Defining Decade, Supernormal and The Twentysomething Treatment have been translated into more than a dozen languages and her work has appeared in the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Harvard Business Review and on NPR and BBC. Her TED talk 'Why 30 is Not the New 20' is among the most watched to date.