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“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.”

Love Choices Heartbreak Decisions

Book:The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

“Our twenties can be like living beyond time. When we graduate from school, we leave behind the only lives we have ever known, ones that have been neatly packaged in semester-sized chunks with goals nestled within. Suddenly, life opens up and the syllabi are gone. There are days and weeks and months and years, but no clear way to know when or why any one thing should happen. It can be a disorienting, cave-like existence. As one twentysomething astutely put it, "The twentysomething years are a whole new way of thinking about time. There's this big chunk of time and a whole bunch of stuff that needs to happen somehow.”

Life Choices Millennials

Book:The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

“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.”

Life Choices Work Millennials

Book:The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

“If the first step in establishing a professional identity is claiming our interests and talents, then the next step is claiming a story about our interests and talents, a narrative we can take with us to interviews and coffee dates (...) a story that balances complexity and cohesion is frankly, diagnostic.”

Choices Storytelling Millennials

Book:The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

“I think part of making any decision in your twenties is realizing there is no twenty-four flavor table. It's a myth.”

Life Choices Work Millennials

Book:The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

“Ian pretended that not knowing what to do was the hard part when, somewhere inside, I think he knew that making a choice about something is when the real uncertainty begins. The more terrifying uncertainty is wanting something and not knowing how to get it. It is working toward something even though there is no sure thing. 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.”

Life Choices Work Failure Heartbreak Decisions Uncertainty Twentysomethings

Book:The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Source: The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now