Meg Jay

These social investigators usually aren’t getting in touch or staying in touch with friends as much as they are checking up on them.

Part of realizing our potential is recognizing how our particular gifts and limitations fit with the world around us. We realize where our authentic potential actually lies.

Scrambling after ideals, we become alienated from what is true about ourselves and the world.

Shoulds can masquerade as high standards or lofty goals, but they are not the same. Goals direct us from the inside, but shoulds are paralyzing judgments from the outside. Goals feel like authentic dreams while shoulds feel like oppressive obligations.

the friction between herself and her work that sparked her real potential.

But it was like what I was doing wasn’t any good because it wasn’t the best thing I saw people doing.

I saw that bigness came from investing in what I had, from taking part in what was in front of me.

my twenties have been a great, but rude, awakening. I’m even grateful for the internal transformation I’ve undergone.

“Everyone says I should be out in the world exploring. But I did that! I just want to go home!”

To accept life in its disjointed pieces is an adult experience of freedom, but still these pieces must lodge and embed themselves somewhere, hopefully in a place that allows them to grow and endure.