Twentysomethings who use their brains by engaging with good jobs and real relationships are learning the language of adulthood just when their brains… - Meg Jay

Twentysomethings who don’t feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.

The post-twentysomething brain is still plastic, of course, but the opportunity is that never again in our lifetime will the brain offer up countless new connections and see what we make of them. Never again will we be so quick to learn new things. Never again will it be so easy to become the people we hope to be. So whatever it is we want to change about ourselves, our twenties are the easiest time to change it.

In my practice, I notice that many twentysomethings — especially those who surround themselves with other twentysomethings — have trouble anticipating life. They need memento vivi — or ways to remember they are going to live. They need something to remind them that life is going to continue on past their twenties, and that it might even be great.