This TED talk is a must watch for College Ministry and Cru City staff (or much quicker: read the transcript – TED has a great feature where you can read the transcript and click on a phrase to play the video at that point).
Some great insights:
- As a culture we have trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood
- 80% of life defining moments happen by the time you’re 35
- Your personality changes more in your 20’s than any other time in your life
- So what do you think happens when you pat a twentysomething on the head and you say, “You have 10 extra years to start your life”? Nothing happens. You have robbed that person of his urgency and ambition, and absolutely nothing happens.
- The post-millennial midlife crisis isn’t buying a red sports car. It’s…many thirtysomethings and fortysomethings say[ing] about their 20s, “What was I doing? What was I thinking?”
- I want to change what twentysomethings are doing and thinking.
And how about this vision for reaching college students and twentysomethings:
What I love about working with twentysomethings. They are so easy to help. Twentysomethings are like airplanes just leaving LAX, bound for somewhere west. Right after takeoff, a slight change in course is the difference between landing in Alaska or Fiji. Likewise, at 21 or 25 or even 29, one good conversation… can have an enormous effect across years and even generations to come.
Watch here or click to watch on TEDÂ (and to be able to read the transcript):
HT:Â @guychmieleski for tweeting about it!