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The Rocket Years

By: Elizabeth Segran, Benjamin Schneer
Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
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The Defining Decade for the #Adulting generation - a book that blends storytelling and data to unpack the choices you make in your 20s, why they matter, and how to turn those critical years into a launchpad for the life you want.

We tend to think of our 20s as a playground for life: a time for low-consequence experimentation and delaying big decisions. But the truth is that while you're muddling through those years - exploring new cities, dating the wrong people, hopping between jobs - a small shift in your flight path can mean the difference between landing on Mars or Saturn.

As the data shows, the choices we make (or put off) during this critical decade about our career, marriage, health, friends, even downtime have the greatest impact on how our lives play out. For example, did you know that people who marry between the ages of 28 and 32 have the lowest risk of divorce? And that the average 25 year old has 20 close friends, but this will shrink to eight after age 40? And that most of us don't acquire new hobbies after we hit our 30s?

Rather than prescribing one correct path (who are we kidding, there's no such thing anyway!), Elizabeth Segran invites listeners to think critically and holistically about the life they want to build. With signature warmth and humor, Segran is the guide we all wish we had to show us the way. Blending insightful anecdotes with research from economics, sociology, and political science, The Rocket Years is an empowering exploration of these exciting, confusing, wonderful years.

©2020 Elizabeth Segran and Benjamin Schneer (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
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Introduces great topics for you to think about to plan the rest of your life, and the general knowledge surrounding them. From Carreer paths to Family and Politics and Religion this audiobook exposes you to many important aspects of like I myself as a 20 year old should start into account when i look into my future. Loved it as it further enhances my knowledge and aids the discovery of my own values. Loved it.

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no substance boring anecdotes endless baby stories

bored me to tears and totally lacking in any substance. I have no interest in hearing endless stories about infant child. boring

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