Young Pr Pros

Hosts, Kristine Simpson and Julia Kent, are really excited about this week's topic. Julia introduces this week's topic: a TED Talk by Meg Jay called Why 30 is not the new 20. Lately it feels as if 25 is just a bit too young to get serious. In her psychology practice, her book The Defining Decade, clinical psychologist Meg Jay suggests that many twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation about what Time magazine calls the "Me Me Me Generation." The rhetoric that "30 is the new 20," she suggests, trivializes what is actually the most transformative period of our adult lives. Forget about having an identity crisis, get identity capital. Do something that adds value to who you are and make every experience count. Don' fall in to the urban tribe. Avoid hanging out with the same people all the time, expand your network. She says weak ties are where real opportunities arise in life. A weak tie is a friend of friend of friend. As Young PR Pros has preached in the past, this strengthens t