The Defining Decade

David Brooks on What Happened to American Conservatism

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway, 5 November 2026. The book comes up at 51 min 49 sec in.

David Brooks recommends The Defining Decade by Meg Jay as a source of advice about building identity capital in your twenties. He paraphrases an example from the book in which Jay told a patient to take a job at Outward Bound over Starbucks because working there would give her something interesting to say at every future job interview and dinner party.

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