Book Corner: Simple, thoughtful advice on “adulting” with Secrets of Adulthood by Gretchen Rush
Looking for that perfect little gift to give to the young adult caterpillar in your life who is about to soar into full on butterfly adulthood mode?
Consider, Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives by Gretchen Rubin, best selling author of The Happiness Project.
Open this charming book to any page and there are simple, insightful, easy to remember bits of advice that makes the journey to adulthood feel more hopeful, more possible and even fun.
The slim volume is broken down into 5 sections titled Cultivating Ourselves, Facing the Perplexities of Relationship, Making Things Happen, Confronting Life’s Dilemmas and Simple Secrets of Adulthood. Each has short subsections that are on point to the major aspects of adulthood that we all deal with including work, procrastination, comfort, adventure, taking action, the challenges of love etc.
Sometimes our advice to the young people in our lives falls on deaf ears…only to seem like spun gold to them when someone else says the same thing.
Save your breadth and let Gretchen do the talking.
Here are a few gems from the book that are sure to stick with you (and your young person) long after you read this post.
On making new friends:
One of the best ways to find friends is to make friends with the friends of friends.
On tough decisions:
When uncertain about how to proceed, make the choice that allows you to choose the bigger life.
On adventure:
Much of the appeal of an ice-cream truck comes from the fact that we’re never sure when it will appear.
On secrets of adulthood:
Things look better when arranged on a tray.
This is a great gift for high schoolers and college students that graduated this past spring as well as any young person taking their tentative first steps into “adulting.”
You may also want a copy for yourself. Couldn’t we all use a little advice on adulthood whatever our age?
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