Nataliey BitatureEmpowering Africa's Next Generation: Leadership, Innovation, and Impact with Dr Nataliey.

I got a hold of this book at the age of 25 & found it good and with very practical knowledge.

25 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Nataliey Bitature reviewing Christine Hasler's book "20 Something, 20 Everything." The speaker (aged mid-20s when reading) describes how the book influenced her thinking, how she gifted it to peers, and highlights the book's central claim that contemporary young women are the first generation with broad life and career options. She reflects on the benefits (expanded freedom) and costs (paralysis, pressure, lack of older-role models, inherited ways of thinking) when navigating identity, relationships, and professional choices.

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A book I really love is called 20 something, 20 everything by Christine Hasler. When I read this book, I think I was like, 24, and I loved it so much. For Christmas, I bought it for all my friends and all my cousins who are girls who are the same age as me. And I gave it to everyone because I was like, oh, my God. This book changed my life, changed my thinking. And the book starts by telling us that we are the first generation of women in history to have all these options, which is amazing. You. Yes, there's still challenges for women, but it can also be paralyzing because we have all these options, because there are not so many women ahead of us who can advise us or guide us. Our own mothers didn't have all these options. In our personal lives, our professional lives, how we dress, how we interact, how we communicate, we are living the dream of, like, the women who fought for our rights. But it does come with a lot of pressure and a lot of fear and a lot of inheriting all these old ways of thinking and not knowing how to assess and process and communicate what we want or what we want to be or who we are.