Top 47 Meg Jay Quotes
#1. Being confused about choices is nothing more than hoping that maybe there is a way to get through life without taking charge.
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#2. Can really rescue you, and you have to do something. Not knowing what you want to
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#3. Twentysomethings who don't feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.
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#4. But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.
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#6. Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. ... Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.
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#7. [Society] is structured to distract people from the decisions that have a huge impact on happiness in order to focus attention on the decisions that have a marginal impact on happiness.
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#8. quickly. Afterward, things are not so easy. The twenties are that critical period of adulthood. These are the years when it will be easiest to start the lives we want. And no matter what we do, the twenties are an inflection point - the great reorganization - a
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#9. The one thing I have learned is that you can't think your way through life. The only way to figure out what to do is to do - something.
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#10. Knowing you want to do something isn't the same as knowing how to do it, and even knowing how to do something isn't the same as actually doing it well.
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#11. Your iPod is whispering in your ear. It was keeping you company, but now it's like a good friend turned bad [ ... ] It is turning your life into a dark, looping rock opera.
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#12. became more urgent and more defined. A timeline may not be a virtual reality chamber, but it can help our brains see time for what it really is: limited.
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#13. While most would agree with Socrates that, "the unexamined life is not worth living," a lesser-known quote by Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: "The unlived life is not worth examining.
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#14. Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.
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#15. The Ben Franklin Effect: If weak ties do favors for us, they start to like us. Then they become even more likely to grant us additional favors in the future. Franklin decided that if he wanted to get someone in his side, he ought to ask for a favor. And he did.
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#16. Did not want to "just have some office job and work nine to five like everyone else." Ian was on a sneaky search for glory. He suffered less from the tyranny of the should than he did from the tyranny of the should-not. His
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#17. Visited the twenty-four-flavor table went on to buy jam. In contrast, shoppers who visited the six-flavor table were more able to decide which jar was right for them, with about 30 percent leaving the store with jam in hand.
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#18. You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid.
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#19. Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better
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#20. That while we were busy making sure we didn't miss
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#21. Confusion. Twentysomethings like Ian were raised
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#22. Inaction breeds fear and doubt. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie, writer and lecturer
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#23. Twenty somethings who aren't at least a little scared about their relationships are often the ones who are being the least thoughtful.
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#24. For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing.
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#25. What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.
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#26. The key finding in the study was that the twenty-four-flavor table attracted more attention yet it resulted in fewer buyers. Shoppers flocked to the exciting array, yet most became overwhelmed and dropped out of buying jam altogether. Only 3 percent of those who
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#27. I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future.
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#28. Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.
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#29. It's the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically
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#30. What would an A in your twenties even mean?" I wondered out aloud. "I don't know. That's the problem. I just feel like I shouldn't be less-than.
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#31. We become what we hear and see and do every day. We don't become what we don't hear and see and do every day. In neuroscience, this is known as "survival of the busiest.
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#32. Forward thinking doesn't just come with age. It comes with practice and experience. That's why some twenty-two-year-olds are incredibly self-possessed, future-oriented people who already know how to face the unknown, while some thirty-four-year-olds still have brains that run the other way.
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#33. When we make choices, we open ourselves up to hard work and failure and heartbreak, so sometimes it feels easier not to know, not to choose, and not to do. But it isn't.
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#34. The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn't matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn't win the lottery.
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#35. Goals have been called the building blocks of adult personality, and it is worth considering that who you will be in your thirties and beyond is being built out of goals you are setting for yourself today.
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#36. As we age, we feel less like leaves and more like trees. We have roots that ground us and sturdy trunks that may sway, but don't break, in the wind.
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#37. It seems [that] everybody wants to be a twenty-something except for many twenty-somethings themselves. All around, 'thirty is the new twenty' is starting to get a new reaction: 'God, I hope not.
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#38. Every time somebody on Facebook changes their status to engaged or married, I panic. I'm convinced Facebook was invented to make single people feel bad about their lives.
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#39. I think part of making any decision in your twenties is realizing there is no twenty-four flavor table. It's a myth.
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#40. We even know that larger social networks change our brains for the better as they require us to communicate with more and different others.
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#41. Before I was in my forties. If you're still doing this
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#42. But twentysomethings who hide out in underemployment, especially those who are hiding out because of a lack of confidence, are not serving themselves.
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#43. Feeling better doesn't come from avoiding adulthood, it comes from investing in adulthood.
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#44. Slope, but still I felt nervous. As I gathered up my maps and turned to go, I hesitated and asked the ranger, "Am I going to make it?" He
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#45. Knowing what to overlook is one way older adults are typically wiser than young adults. With age comes what is known as "positivity effect". We become more interested in positive information, and our brains react less strongly to what negative information we do encounter.
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#46. I wish I'd been more.. I don't know... intentional.
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#47. To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. - Leonard Bernstein, composer
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