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

by Meg Jay

I did about the same when I was getting going on The Defining Decade. I didn’t ask my colleague how to write a book proposal; I asked if I could take a look at hers. I didn’t ask the editor in New York how to get a book published; I asked if she could take a look at what I had.

“That’s right. The story you are telling yourself about who you are now is a first draft left over from adolescence. It doesn’t make sense to me.”