How to Be a Grown Up, Raffi Grinberg
How to Be a Grown Up, Raffi Grinberg
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How to Be a Grown Up
The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Just Now)

Author: Raffi Grinberg

Narrator: Derek Shoales

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/25/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

What Color Is Your Parachute? meets I Will Teach You To Be Rich for twentysomethings. Raffi Grinberg, who created and taught the ever-oversubscribed college course "Adulting 101," offers a practical guide to adult life's greatest mysteries that were never taught in school, including how to launch your career, find your purpose (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."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Koda on December 03, 2024

I picked up this book thinking: "I wonder how much of this information will be new to me, at 40-years-old," and although I've learned quite a bit of what's offered in this quick little book, there was indeed some new-to-me advice and knowledge offered in the pages of #HowtoBeaGrownUp. . .and OH! how......more

Goodreads review by Ellen on February 08, 2025

My grandkids asked to read it. Nuff said......more

Goodreads review by Chris on May 06, 2025

This book was surprisingly good. I’m an adult, so I didn’t really have a reason to read it since I’m not the target audience. Still, I’m always on the lookout for books I may want my son to read at some point. This is definitely one of them. Raffi does a great job covering topics that every young pe......more

Goodreads review by Katie on December 15, 2024

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)......more

Goodreads review by DustyBookSniffers - on October 22, 2025

Raffi Grinberg's How to Be a Grown Up is one of those books that seems almost too obvious. Why didn't this exist sooner? Part life manual, part pep talk, and part reality check, it's aimed squarely at young adults who are intelligent, ambitious, and utterly unprepared for the real world. And judging......more