Apparently, Millennials, as a generation, is a group of people who were born approximately 1984 and after. They are tough to manage and they’re accused of being entitled, narcissistic, self-interested,…
And yet, for some reason, they’re still not happy. And that’s because they’re missing this there’s a missing piece.
What I’ve learned is that I can break it down into four pieces. There are four things, four characteristics.
One is parenting. Two is technology. Third is impatience and the fourth is environment. The generation that we call the Millennials.
Too many of them grew up subject to (not my words) failed parenting strategies. You know, where for example they were told that they were special all the time. They…
Some kids got participation medals where you got a medal for coming in last, which the science we know is pretty clear. It devalues the metal and the reward for…
So you take this group of people and they graduate school and they get a job and they’re thrust into the real world. In an instant, they find out they’re…
The other problem to compound it is we’re growing up in a Facebook Instagram world. In other words, we’re good at putting filters on things. We’re good at showing people…
Right now, let’s add in technology. We know that engagement with social media and our cell phones releases a chemical called dopamine. That’s why when you get a text, it…
Dopamine is the exact same chemical that makes us feel good when we smoke, when we drink and when we gamble. In other words it’s highly, highly addictive.
We have age restrictions on smoking, gambling and alcohol but we have no age restrictions on social media and cell phones, which is the equivalent of opening up the liquor…
That;’s basically what happened. We have an entire generation that has access to an addictive numbing chemical called dopamine. Through social media and cellphones, as they’re going through the high…
Very frustrating for our parents and very important for us to know that allows us to acculturate outside of our immediate families into the broader tribe. It’s a highly highly…
They will admit that many of their friendships are superficial they don’t count on their friends. They don’t rely on their friends. They have fun with their friends but they…
We know the science is clear. We know that people who spend more time on Facebook suffer higher rates of depression than people who spend less time on Facebook.
Alcohol is fun but too much is bad. Gambling is fun but too much gambling is dangerous. There’s nothing wrong with social media and cell phones. It’s the imbalance. If…
That’s what happens and the fact that you cannot put it away it’s because you are addicted. If you wake up and you check your phone before you say good…
It’ll cost time and it will cost money. It’ll make your life worse. So we have a generation growing up with lower self-esteem that doesn’t have the coping mechanisms to…
You add in the sense of impatience and they’ve grown up in a world of instant gratification. If you want to buy something, you go on Amazon. It arrives the…
You don’t have to learn the social coping mechanisms. Everything you want you can have instantaneously. Everything you want comes with instant gratification except job satisfaction and strength of relationships.…
And so I keep meeting these wonderful, fantastic, idealistic, hard-working and smart kids. They’ve just graduated school. They’re in their entry-level job when I sit down with them. When I…
And so, what this young generation needs to learn is patience. That some things that really really matter, like love. job fulfillment. joy, love of life and self-confidence are a…
Which leads me to the fourth point which is environment. We’re taking this amazing group of young fantastic kids that were just dealt a bad hand. It’s no fault of…
So we are putting them in corporate environments that aren’t helping them build their confidence. That aren’t helping them learn the skills of cooperation. That aren’t helping them overcome the…
And so we’re thrusting to them them in corporate environments, and the worst part about it is they think it’s them. They blame themselves.
I’m here to tell them it’s not them. It’s the corporations. It’s the corporate environments. It’s the total lack of good leadership in our world today that is making them…