How to Be a Grown Up
The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Just Now)
by Raffi Grinberg
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Pub Date Mar 25 2025 | Archive Date Mar 24 2025
Chronicle Books | Chronicle Prism
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Description
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.”
A MUCH-NEEDED BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS: Creator and teacher of the undergraduate college course Adulting 101, Raffi Grinberg crafted a foolproof curriculum that became one of the department’s most in-demand and highest-rated classes. Like his course, this book answers a need for young people who will inevitably discover that most of what they learned in school does not apply to their lives and that the things they need to know most were never taught to them.
TIMELY ADVICE FROM A TRUSTED SOURCE: This is not advice from your parents’ generation. Grinberg, now in his thirties, has recently faced some of the present concerns of people in their twenties. This life skills book helps readers unlearn outdated, unrealistic advice with guidance that reflects life’s current realities and opportunities.
OUTSTANDING GRADUATION GIFT: The United States is facing a loneliness crisis, a mental health crisis, a debt crisis, and a crisis of meaning. This guide proactively teaches young adults fourteen essential skills to avoid these crises in their lives and make the most of their twenties. An indispensable resource and entertaining read, How to Be a Grown Up makes an excellent self-purchase or thoughtful present for birthday, graduation, college or grad school kickoff, or job-seeking encouragement.
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
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781797231075 |
PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 272 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
As a high school teacher and a parent, I highly recommend this book! I wish I could buy a copy for each of my senior students. This guide is accessible, practical, and specific; it’s a great resource for new adults. Instead of skills that can be learned from Google or YouTube (e.g., changing a tire), Grinberg focuses on important big-picture skills such as finding long-term fulfillment. I am really impressed with how thorough and thoughtful this book is; in addition to explaining a topic like insurance, Grinberg urges us to consider why such topics really matter. I appreciate that Grinberg directs people to focus on long-term fulfillment rather than immediate happiness - and provides templates to identify one’s goals and the reasons behind them. Though Grinberg may be a little too optimistic about finding one’s dream job, he is right to acknowledge that some find more fulfillment outside of work, and that is okay too. This book is chock-full of wonderful advice, and would be a great gift for a high school or college grad, or any new adult. I definitely want to buy a copy for my kids and maybe one for my classroom too!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the free eARC. I post this review with my honest opinions. This review is posted on Goodreads and will be posted on Amazon when the book is published.
This is a really good self-help book. I learn lots of tips and tricks that I plan to use in the future and even now. It was written, and it was a quick read with lots of insightful information.
Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complementary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!
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