Whether it's going to work out as well as they thought it would. They're worried about whether life is going to work out for them. On the 20-somethings Jay helps in her private practice She has been published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Meg Jay is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. On the flip side, I've seen 20-somethings who've had every advantage, but who blow it and fall very far from where they grew up.ĭr. I've worked with clients with the saddest family histories, who grew up chanting, "You can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends." And then in their 20s, they transform their lives by picking and creating good families for themselves. If there's ever a 10-year period when you're going to transcend your childhood, it's going to be the 20-something years.
On why a person's childhood doesn't necessarily shape his or her 20s
The things that we do and the things that we don't do are going to have an enormous effect across years and even generations. Our brain caps off its last growth spurts. Our personalities change more in our 20s than any other time. We know that more than half of Americans are married or living with or dating their future partner by 30. We know that 70 percent of lifetime wage growth happens in the first 10 years of a career. We know that 80 percent of life's most defining moments happen by age 35. On why our 20s are the most defining decade
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