Why Your Late Twenties Is the Worst Time of Your Life
Reason
Negative Impact
Evidence
Crisis typical ages
What did we learn?
Be alone when have first job and move to their own department
They want to show that they are grown but people still consider that they are children
the average age for the onset of depression has dropped from late forties or early fifties
young people are suffering more than previous generations
Feeling of being locked in to a commitment at work or at home: people take on jobs, rent apartments, and enter relationships, but then feel trapped in pretend adulthood
Leave their romantic partners, jobs, or social groups and become separated and lonely
reflecting and recalibrating their plans, alone and isolated
Late 20s- Early 30s
sharp increase in stress levels
people experience the most negative thoughts and feelings and experience the most mind wandering
worst part of life
Late 30s-40s
Stress levels increase moderately
Late 30s: Most people start to experience an increase in positive emotions
40s: experience a significant improvement in overall satisfaction with life
Develop psychological mastery
to regulate and attenuate our emotions
believe in ourselves more
put things in perspective
emotions that sometimes pierce our chests are temporary and do not have to consume us