How to Be a Grown Up

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781797231075
  • Weight: 283g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Apr 2025
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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A practical guide to adult life’s greatest mysteries that were never taught in school but should have been—including how to launch your career, find your purposes (for right now), invest your money, and much more.
 

Though twenty- and thirty-somethings are better educated than ever before, essentially none of the topics critical to being a full-fledged adult—such as how to get a new job, create a budget, file your taxes, face rejection, and navigate family dynamics—are covered in lower or higher education. Fortunately, here is a book that does just that.

From entrepreneur Raffi Grinberg, who lived and learned the hard way throughout his twenties, here is a crash course in everything you need to know to be a grown up. Based on his wildly popular “Adulting 101” course at Boston College, Grinberg firmly steers you through the basics of being a grown up using interactive chapters, bite-size nuggets of wisdom, humor, and stories from his twenties, including nearly going broke, having bad credit, disappointing his parents, and much more. As Raffi tells his students, “I want you to have a quarter-life crisis now so that you won’t have a mid-life crisis later.”

Perfect for:

  • Recent high school and college graduates
  • Parents with adult children
  • Fans of self-help and life skills books
  • Anyone looking to better manage their personal finances and career opportunities
  • Readers of The Defining Decade, The Alchemist, What Color Is Your Parachute?, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, The Last Lecture, and The Unspoken Rules
Raffi Grinberg is a business leader, author, and educator based in Washington, D.C. He is an executive at Dialog and the cofounder of The Constructive Dialogue Institute (with Jonathan Haidt), both multimillion-dollar education nonprofits and businesses that bring people together through dynamic conversation. He graduated with honors from Princeton University and previously worked in management at Bain & Company. He is the author of a mathematics textbook published by Princeton University Press. He also created and taught the popular Adulting 101 course at Boston College. There's more, but his bio is much less important than your bio, which this book will help you shape.