Why 20 is the Not the New 30

While I was driving hundreds of miles around the midwest, I killed a lot of time with TED Talks.  These podcasts, or webvideos depending on how you listen, bring some of the most inventive thinkers of our time together on issues of technology, entertainment, and design.

Since I have turned 20 all I hear is that 20 is the new 30.  People in their 20s are delaying marriage and having kids.  People in their 20s are still living at home because they are trying to save money so they can pay off student loans.  People in their 20s are pushing off "the real world" by traveling and volunteering and trying out jobs which will probably lead no where just because they sound like fun.  The list could go on and on and I am definitely guilty of many of these things (I mean I am 26 and never had a real person job between being in my third degree program and taking a year off to volunteer and bike across the country).

Meg Jay, in her TED talk, shows us how a person's 20s are possibly the most important years as they help to shape and mold a person into who they will become for the rest of their adult life.  Take the fifteen minutes out of your schedule, or listen while you go for walk/drive/cook dinner, and hear what she has to say on the subject.  It will definitely give you something to think about.