A review by victoria_2002
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay

challenging informative slow-paced

1.0

This book had a small amount of good advice. The rest just annoyed me. How is this therapist going to sit there and tell someone who’s mental health is being significantly affected by a horrible job and a terrible boss not to quit? That seems the opposite of supportive and the opposite of what a therapist is supposed to do. I don’t know what it was about this book that rubbed me the wrong way, maybe it was the patronising tone of what people in their twenties should be doing, or maybe I was just annoyed by the amount of times I read the word “twentysomethings”. The book completely breezes over mental health and burnout and treats the twenties like a one size fits all. That is not the case and some people take longer to bloom or need different things to other people. It felt very like pushing people into societal norms of a capitalist society and I did not like that lol.