11 TED Talks To Get You Through Your Quarter-Life Crisis

After graduating college, some of the brightest, most talented young people can fall into emotional crisis.Up to that point, everything in their lives had been structured, giving them clear goals with immediate rewards. Determining their own path for the first time can feel overwhelming and strange.If you're in your 20s, whether in your first job, grad school, or drifting aimlessly, you may be getting a dose of reality.To help you make it through the "quarter-life crisis," in which your uncertain future looms large, TED has curated 11 of its most popular presentations on dealing with setbacks and finding your passion. We've included links and summaries to all of them below.Meg Jay says "30 is not the new 20."While it may be true that today's young people marry later and have children later than earlier generations, it in no way means that the 20s have become a throwaway decade of experimentationa sort of extended adolescence, says Jay, a clinical psychologist and author.Research has shown that regardless of marital status, your 20s signifcantly determine the future of your career and personal life. Twenty-somethings should be building their professional networks and determining what they want to achieve."Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do. You're deciding your life right now," Jay says.Watch here >>Carol Dweck says you need to adopt a "growth mindset."The first time you run into a major challenge or failure in your career, you may consider yourself inadequate, as if you were made to fail from the start.This idea, that our intellectual development is limited, has been ingrained in us since we were young, and it's time to shed it, says Stanford psychologist and author Dweck.In a study with grade school students, Dweck says, "We taught them that every time they push out of their comfort zone to learn something new and difficult, the neurons in their brain can form new, stronger connections, and over time they can get smarter."Watch here >>Young-ha Kim says you should never abandon your creativity."Why do people instantly resist the idea of associating themselves with art'" Kim, an award-winning South Korean writer, asks. Perhaps you think art is for the greatly gifted or for the thoroughly and professionally trained... [But] we are all born artists."Kim says that anyone who abandons pursuits like writing, painting, or acting, or dismisses the notion in the first place out of some perceived pragmatism is doing themselves a great disservice. After all, he says, young children show us every day that it's more natural to create something than to work.As we explain in our "21 Day Plan For Radical Self-Improvement," there is research that shows that creative self-expression is linked with reduced anxiety and improved well-being.Watch here >>See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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