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Julie Lythcott-Haims: Be an Excellent Adult

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English - February 02, 2023 12:15 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB - ★★★★ - 258 ratings
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Being an adult: what does that actually mean? Is it paying taxes? Making your own doctor’s appointments? Owning a home? It's probably all of that stuff, but: what's the more important personal evolution stuff that makes us grownups—no matter if we're 21 or 65? 

In this episode, Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Dean of freshmen and undergrad advising at Stanford and a best-selling author, walks Caitlin through it by way of a conversation about her book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/your-turn-en [1].

Julie explains why the "checklist" for adulting—graduate college, get a job, get married, have kids, buy a house, retire—doesn't work anymore, the exciting thing that replaces it, and how a lot of the work of being an adult is becoming a safe place for one another.

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Book recommended by Julie:

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks

Books recommended by Caitlin

A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard LannonAdult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, by Lindsay C. Gibson

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Let us know what you thought of this episode, or just come say hi on Twitter! Find Caitlin at @caitlinschiller https://twitter.com/caitlinschiller [4], Ben at @bsto https://twitter.com/bsto [5]. You can write us all an email at [email protected] [6].

Simplify is produced by Caitlin Schiller, Ben Schuman-Stoler and Odysseas Constantinou at Blinkist.

[1]: https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/your-turn-en
[2]: https://twitter.com/bsto
[3]: https://www.blinkist.com/simplify
[4]: https://twitter.com/caitlinschiller
[5]: https://twitter.com/bsto
[6] [email protected]
 

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