4.23.2016

Why 30 is not the new 20

TED
Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20
Summary
Don't think that you have 10 extra years to start your life. Twenties are that critical period of adult development to achieve great things, you need a plan and not quite enough time.
First, get identity capital. It means to do something sooner that adds value to who you are.
Second, don't huddle together with like-minded peers limit. New things and encounters will come from weak tie of outside the inner circle. 
Last, start picking your family. It's time to prepare partnering with someone and creating a family of your own in your 20s.
Thirty is not the new 20,  You're deciding your life right now.
I wanted to know this story more before because my twenties were already behind me. However, I don't regret what I did in my 20s. I just thought that it was time to change my life when I entered my twenties like the speaker said. I'll never sit a closest chair.
Words in this story
kicked the can down the road / If you  kick the can down the road, you delay a decision in hopes that the problem or issue will go away or somebody else will make the decision later.
"Aha!" moment / a moment of sudden insight or discovery.
fertility / productiveness.
stake / interest, punishment,wager, gamble.
sibling /  a brother or sister.
beget / gain, result. effect.
procrastination / the action of delaying or postponing something.
overrated (vs, underestimation)/ have a higher opinion of (someone or something) than is deserved.

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