Jay was a research associate on the Mills Longitudinal Study, one of the longest-running studies of female adult development in the world. in clinical psychology, and in gender studies, from the University of California, Berkeley.Īt Berkeley, Dr. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Forbes, Psychology Today, and NPR.ĭr. Jay’s book, The Defining Decade, was a 2012 Staff Pick and her 2013 TED talk “Why 30 Is Not the New 20″ has been viewed more than 2 million times. She is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Virginia and maintains a private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.ĭr. THE DEFINING DECADE is a smart, compassionate and constructive book about the years we cannot afford to miss.
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. 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.ĭrawing from a decade of work with hundreds of twentysomething clients and students, THE DEFINING DECADE weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with behind-closed-doors stories from twentysomethings themselves. Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter.
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