Moving Pieces. Moving Places. Moving Peacefully.
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by uncertainty, to want to lie low with the urban tribe, or our parents, until our brains just mature on their own and somehow suddenly know the sure answers to our lives. But that’s not how the brain works. And that’s not how life works. … The twenties are, indeed, the time to get busy. It’s forward thinking for an uncertain age.
Because our twenties are the capstone of this last critical period, they are, as one neurologist said, a time of “great risk and great opportunity.” … Never again will we be so quick to learn new things. Never again will it be so easy to become the people we hope to be. The risk is that we may not act now.
These are the years when it will be easiest to start the lives we want. And no matter what we do, the twenties are an inflection point—the greatest reorganization—a time when the experiences we have disproportionately influence the adult lives we will lead.