If you teach them to stand on their own two feet, give them good rules to follow in social situations, and show them that hard work can't be substituted for, then you won't have failed them at all.
Totally agree, we have always done that, but there is always room for improvement. For me it is probably more to do with my example setting re; social media/phone usage.
I agree with some of what he's saying. I just disagree with millennials being "entitled". The boomers were entitled and got good jobs just by participating. You didn't need 3 degrees and a masters just to get considered for a position. I actually can't stand it when people try and blame the people with the least power for what's wrong with the world. This guy is hardly profound. I've heard this on Fox News countless times. Yawn. He probably blames Millennials for Hillary Clinton losing.
You sound like a millennial. I'm a boomer... nobody gave me anything. I taught myself engineering while I was working because my family couldn't afford college (only 5 figures back then). It's a matter of having and taking the initiative to better yourself not "just participating". He's profound... you just don't want to hear the truth
I'm not a millennial. Good for you for teaching yourself engineering while working. Truly amazing. Not going to happen in today's world. You cannot get a professional job without a degree in today's market. That's just a fact. You can't just teach yourself autocad and start designing buildings. You have to go to at least four years of university. Boomers spent and spent and spent leaving scraps for their children. But yeah, Facebook is what's wrong with the economy. For a guy who taught himself engineering, you sure don't have a critical mind to see through the tripe this guy is spewing. Just blame it on the kids straddled with student debt working three minimum wage jobs. Because they're lazy. But hey, at least you taught yourself engineering. I honestly don't give a shit about your personal success stories. This isn't about you. It's about a shitty economy. It's about a shrinking middle class. It's about stagnant wages. But just sit back and pat yourself on the back for your engineering chops. Showed me...
Yup, husband's bosses desperately wants to promote him, but HR won't let them because even though he has more than enough experience to do the new job, he hasn't yet finished his degree. Having a piece of paper that says "I learned stuff!" is more important than actually knowing what you're doing. That said there's truth in this video. I've seen many of my peers crumble to dust at the first sign of trouble in the work field. It's frustrating. Thankfully it's not all of us, but enough to be a problem.
Entitled? Have you ever played an online game? Do you know that gamers get free rewards just by logging in. They don't have do anything other than just logging in. Entitlement is such a strong part of the culture now that game developers have to reward players for doing nothing in order to compete. Without these incentives, gamers would move on to the next game. And free stuff is just the beginning. The whiny complaints come pouring out if a gamer were to lose in a competitive tournament. The other free stuff given out just by participating (called "milestones") are not good enough. They want the top prize. Sinek claims that the "participation" rewards have lowered people's self esteem. If that's true, it sure did not damper their enthusiasm to demand that they still get the rewards even when they lose.
Ha, are you serious? The Boomers, like my parents, worked their asses off to provide for us. Its true that every generation has it easier than the last, but there definitely was not any entitlement in that generation. Their parents were far more disciplinary and focused on morals than the current generation of parents. At 12 or 14, YOU HAD TO START WORKING! Nobody paid for their cars, or their insurance, or any other luxuries they had. Everything had to be earned. Hell, most of them had to pay for their own college, since government assistance didnt exist. Where does this ignorance come from to make such a claim that the Boomers were entitled?
I read a book called 'Capitalist Realism' by Mark Fisher, and that book reflects the points made here, the idea that we, young people, are nurtured on nothing but the perpetual pursuit of pleasure, so it leaves us disenfranchised and confused with the truth that you can't escape suffering. It's a part of life that we've been taught to almost repress. He explains that our very consciousnesses are being constricted by education systems that run at the behest of bureaucratic governments, who neglect spiritual, human fulfilment in favour of hitting the numbers; mechanical, computer-like thinking, shaped for a world they're not prepared for - mentally, emotionally, spiritually, skills-wise etc.
I remember as a kid growing up i played baseball a lot. I was lucky enough to be a part of a talented team to where we always won, we were used to it. After 3 years, i was 8 years old and we finally lost a game and it was a championship game. Second place didnt get ANYTHING at all and I told myself, “this feeling sucks, I have to try harder so I never get that feeling again.” For the next 7 years I worked and worked with different professionals and when I stopped playing at 15 (health reasons) I looked back and loved the process i went through because my mental strength increased so much and I wish thats something kids today would understand
Constantine Joseph.. 90s kid means you were a kid in the 90s.. Not that you were born in the 90s and Are now a kid... You are, what.. are 70s kid, an 80s kid? Not because you're a kid now lol.
I asked a prospective tenant if they are renting at the moment because their move-in date seems rather flexible. She responds she is renting but may be able to arrange to stay on at the current property a little longer as my property is still tenanted on her proposed move-in date. She adds she will try to extend her stay at her current place but she can't promise. And that she is trying to be helpful to me. I find millenials to be an interesting bunch of people. They think they are entitled to kindness and if they respond to your question they're doing you a favour. My current tenant wanted grey walls and grey rug to match. Before she even placed the holding deposit she instrcuted me on ways to make the property more homely. The bathroom cabinet which was brown and did not match the rest of the bathroom suite broke the second day they moved in. The replacement was a white and matching and she was estatic. She also wanted know if I could increase the power of the shower. It's possible they'd mistaken me for Houdini.
True, to a point when a Millennial comprehends this, and then it's all up to him/her! Because our life is what we make of it, and it is our responsibility. No blaming it on parents, companies, schools an so on....
This whining about the faults of millennials is so misguided. The boomers could support a family of four on one job. Young adults today can't support a family of two on two jobs. The irony is so thick- The generation that had everything handed to them is complaining about the performance of the generation that entered the workforce during the worst recession in a lifetime.
You are correct. The millennials raised themselves because both parents worked. They stayed alone and learned to entertain themselves. Parents overcompensated by buying the things that acted like the TV to my generation did. But all these things interacted with the elements that are in this video.
I don't know the interviewer, but he did a fantastic job. He just sat there and here him talking. No interruptions. Seems silly, but these days where every interviewer wants to be also the star, is something rare to find
TheRichie213 kinda, but most people just want too much and want to be better than their peers. if they stopped that, they'd be happier and could stress less.
***** The whole 99% are all slaves not just leftists. We are all free range slaves just like free range chickens. Born then a number,ss.card,birth cert, blood sample,teeth records,finger and foot print,vaccines,forced and brainwashed in school,forced to work in a money slave system in order to eat and have housing, robbed by taxes, millions of ridiculous rules ect.. People are sick of the nanny state. Can't even sell lemonade without being butt fucked.
that's why older folk make many of the talking points simon here says in this video. They're mad that even the most obnoxious idiots of the young folk realize that what the older folk have spent so much time and energy doing is bullshit and they want it done their way.
Some people are unhappy because they believe they are "modern day slaves" - devastated unfortunates who have no freedom to choose, no free will, barred from ever starting their own business, inventing a profitable idea. Like slaves, they believe they can't choose where to work, can't choose to work for themselves instead of an employer, are prevented from being in inventor, an innovator, a developer - even a leader. Some might get self-help by reading Locke, Montesque, etc to understand the concept of people living in a commonwealth, the division of labour, etc. But most won't. They'll just remain outraged that if you want to eat, have a home, etc - then you'll have to lower yourself to having a job that pays you money, instead of being just given your needs.
2016: "This generation are entitled and lazy because they go around glued to smartphones." 1995: "This generation are entitled and lazy with their personal computers, music players and gadgets." 1970: "This generation of pot smoking hippies is entitled because they never had to fight in World War like me!" 1900: "This generation are entitled and lazy because they have electricity and running water, and never had to work in the coal mine like me.". 1800: "This generation are entitled and lazy with their steam engines and machines doing all the work." . . 10,000BC: "This generation are entitled and lazy with their fancy fire."
JCummins47 I think a big piece that's missing is socialization. People are inept at basic communication. The dumbing down of connectivity.Social skills and personalization is becoming moot. If you cannot connect on a emotional level all is lost.
I think the generalization quotes above aren't exactly valid as a argument. I think your quantification is just opening you eyes look around you or talk to some millennials. While all are not effected are large amount are. Barely any social skills , glued to their phones heads down like like zombies. I often see teens texting each other on the train while sitting together. They are unable or more so willing just to type versus having a conversation.
I do see your point here and think its pretty valid - except where the stats showing depression and suicide suggest it might be different this time round...
Oh please, this continous complaint about the youth. Here is a quote from Socrates (2300 years before now) : "The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."
I agree. All generations are very similar, but like evolution, social behaviours change slowly over time. And it's a slippery slope leading to, as he said, astoundingly poor mental health and attitude. This guy is spot on with his observations.
Millennials are not children they are adults that are up to 32-36 years old. The children, or post-millennial generation are just starting to finish high school now, turning 17.
But it's more than just bad manners and disrespect for the elderly. It's a surge in depression and suicide. Not only that, but a complete lack of basic social skills that every generation before now has had.
+Buckets - Complete lack of social skills compared to previous generations? Previous generations would socially ostracize others who didn't fit the same demographic as them whether they were black, gay, Native American, atheist etc. That's not to say some social skills today don't need improvement, but to broadly generalize and say ALL social skills have deteriorated is ludicrous. Millennials are the least prejudice generation is history, and yes, that is an important aspect of social interaction. Previous generations were weaker at being comfortable around people who were different. Can you imagine today if a white 20 year felt uncomfortable around a black person? That white person would face opposition from their white peers, compared to 50 years ago where they'd be supported.
Why would you do that?! he is a moron, like many other morons reminds me of the tv add, dad laughs at his kid "that's not how the world works" kid replays " The world is changing"
feel like i agree and disagree with him. All good intentions though, yeah sure patience is good but not working towards something and instead just working can be rough life. And it is unfulfilling. You have to "MAKE" a choice to go to the right path.
I really don't know where he's gotten these sweeping generalizations. A generational distaste happens, unsurprisingly, every generation between the older and the newer - the older often complaining about the newer's laziness and entitlement. Entitlement and laziness is just as recurrent in the older generations as the newer generation - there's absolutely no evidence to support the absolutist claim that's the entire generation
There are alot of generalizations in his speech, however, previous generations didn't have video games, social media or internet prom...yeah they had their own "distractions" but the affect these have had on my (maybe OUR, idk your age) generation shouldn't be downplayed. Mostly talking about the latter two.
Me neither but how many adults do you know who are addicted to twitter or facebook? I would say many. Look I am eating breakfast. Here I am in my car on my way to work. Listening to my favorite song by so and so right now. Hope my sports team wins tonight. My kid won his baseball game. So and so for president. Please like me if you like what you read. Check us out on facebook. I have a zillion facebook friends. I just tweeted that Hillary took this state or Trump took that one. It gets ridiculous even with adults.
Restriction is not the best way to teach. We want kids to think something is wrong *because* it is wrong. Restriction means you're teaching people something is wrong because it will get you in trouble.
I understand what you mean but consider violence and nudity in movies for example or online. They are age restricted. Simply watching violence or six does not get anyone pregnant or diseased or maimed or killed yet we don't want our youth looking at it. So is virtual violence or sex bad? I we believe too much violence in movies desensitized one to real violence and too much pornography creates unreal expectations of what a woman should look like or she should behave then I do believe social media can be every bit as detrimental to real social interaction such as looking someone in the eye while you speak. please and thank you. Having a real friend instead of 102 likes on my Facebook page or I have 5629 friends on social media. I think does create a false relationship. It is bad
He's not talking about the unemployed. He's talking about how they behave in the work environment. If you're one of them, you won't understand because you're special.
Actually yes, I'm 31 and have been in a corporate job since i was 20. Speaking in generalities like this "all millennials behave as XYZ in a workplace" is fucking retarded. That is like saying "all people of (insert race here) steal" etc. There are plenty of people in this age demographic that didn't get a "participation trophy" (never got one of those btw). The point is lumping all people of an age group under "entitled millennial" is dumb.
its so sad, that jacob and anthony didnt make it past the first sentence, otherwise they maybe would have understood, that it isnt about bashing millenials and wouldnt have gotten so defensive....
the only part i heard about entitlement in his speach was about parenting. He was talking purely about teenegers psychology and not about college availability or politics. But i guess you entitled to assume whaever you want. What is missing from you is loud and sarcastic "thx Obama". Everyone has various issues and problems but this video wasnt about them
I agree with him until he starts to shift blame to "corporations", or any employer, as responsible for making employees feel fulfilled. That's a cop out, and contradicts a key trait of successful individuals: self accountability. Until you understand that the world doesn't owe you anything, including happiness, you'll likely fall into a loser mindset - blaming others for your problems & shortcomings.
I don't think he meant it in a moral sense, rather this is increasingly the available workforce corporations have to choose from. The organization that can adapt to these specific set of struggles millennials have is the one that will have a better chance of retaining a long-term functioning workforce with higher productivity than their competitors, and thus have better outcomes in the open market. Organizations with leaders who have a mentality that their workers problems aren't the company's problems---well, enjoy the high turnover, the loss of productivity, the increasing training costs, etc etc. It IS the responsibility of the company in the sense that the company should care about the integrity and reliability of its labor pool, because a competent workforce is the only way to get quality product. You can't fire your way to success (well, a few can), it's just not a good HR strategy and reflects that your organization is not able to properly train its staff, or does not have the resources to recruit the top tier already competent talent, or just cannot make smart hiring decisions in the first place. You can't skip this generation (besides, the next generation will have a totally different set of problems). You can't import new labor from abroad either, not without another wave of Trumpian backlash. That's how I interpreted it anyway.
You're right. He sounds like he could be speaking to an audience of managers at Apple, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, HBO, etc. But what if you're just working at a department store doing the same damn thing everyday? What if you're a driver for UPS or FedEx following the same exact route every single day? That's the job. If you can't handle the boring monotony of everyday life then you'll always be looking for a high.
Older&Wiser People will work harder for a (corporate) vision than a dollar, there is partial responsibility on the company's behalf to motivate an individual
It's a valid comment. People are successful based on 3 things: the books you read, the people you associate with, and your environment (personal AND professional). If the corporate temperament is altogether negative, over time it has an astounding compounded impact on a person's ability to remain optimistic and in touch with reality. Corporations have a responsibility to provide for the people that work for them. An employee is someone who assists the company. To not value the life of the person you have hired to help you is not only profoundly dangerous for the business, but it's also damaging to the relationship you have with your employees. And it has been proven time and time again that employees who genuinely feel valued and supported work harder. We are a relational species, it's important those connections and sense of value are fulfilled.
He is wrong on one thing though, meaningfullness is beyond work ethics. Millennials are born in a society in crisis, and works is indeed meaningless if seen as destructive. There are no work ethics in Corporation, Politics etc... Work lost its appeal to a generation that sees Work as enslavement...physical, psychological and financial. Education cost, housing cost...Millenials are lost into a society looking for meaning so when they ask for a purpose they are not wrong because what is the point really... Anything he says is right within the old framework, the paradigm of Live to work/Work to live...now the millennial wants Live to live...fuck work! and they are right, the work sucks bad...so build a new society, that is the millennial's job.
Stephane Nerbonne I agree with you, we literally just want to have a world with equality. Students have a hard time paying off their college fees like absolute sheep while they're young and deserve to have the right of freedom they were promised as a kid. We find reasons to study, to work and without proper reasons we have absolutely zero interest in doing so, thus forcing us to change the future of shithole of society that these old bastards who sit on the government chair are controlling.
Exactly, I wanted to add the same thing... when you have all the governmental manipulations, corporations funding wars and managers working for short term shareholders, why/how the F*** could this Generation trust in the purpose of the company he is working for?!
@ensayofr my problem is that no one honors anything anymore. Even a few years ago this wasn't a problem. I've been on the phone for months trying to find a job and recruiters will straight up call and lie to me that they've submitted me for the position. Which would be fine if they were from India but not from America OK have some integrity in your ability to do your job. This "block everyone who bothers you" culture has completely screwed things up and people are invisibility protected everywhere today but the dynamic is backwards. "Oh don't be depressed have fun with your life" these little kids have ruined everything and what it means to be an American and the pride of being a human being and they are so "mommy's perfect child" they will never be harmed by anyone. I think that's what he's talking about, and it's screwing up our current workforce and the future will be worse. Think about it this way. You are already predisposed to only hear/trust about 20% of what I am saying because it is through the internet. In person you would at least hear out what I am saying. Yes you poor baby kids, you DO have to hear what I'm saying. You DO have to let things penetrate your tiny idealistic society. You DO have to actually DO your job. My problem is the current culture supports these kids let alone they are making the rules and that's not how an economy runs that's how it fails. So millenial question, don't let there be a question, just let these kids fuck up and learn. Don't help them
@@MrHyonD: so true, but that's because they're afraid to look in the mirror of self responsibility. It's mostly finger pointing rather than self improvement.
Ryan I mean those of us that were lucky enough to be raised right and not to be entitled to everything aren’t as depressed. I’m happy, I’ve gotten myself together, going to college, certified in IT and right out of college will be making 90k a year. My parents raised me right, they didn’t tell me I was special and I was entitled to everything, they told me it takes hard work to get the things you want and life won’t always go the way you want jt
Here let me correct the links 1:22 click off the video 3:13 why have you not clicked off 7:25 it’s obvious this guy is ageist 10:23 why are there people writing an essay on this incorrect BS
It really bothers me that people will so nonchalantly parrot what someone else has says. "Millenials are entitled. They're lazy. They have no social skills." The second they see some of this behavior on display, people will be quick to jump all over the story and say, "SEE? Look at this entitled millenial. Classic." I think that saying "Millenials are lazy/entitled" is a gross generalization that is mostly confirmation bias. For every lazy or childish millenial you see, I guarantee there at least 4 others that work their asses off. Millenials have tons of debt.....you can't NOT work hard to pay that off.
what are his sources. so many logical leaps. Who are these Millenials he's referencing? Are these people he knows personally? What are his sources? He's making massive claims about millions of people based on what? A few studies?
Seethu Natarajan What's the irony for you exactly? Again, I'm not trolling. I just saw the comment and I was seeing the irony in one way, but it may not be the way you meant.
I'm a millennial. I made $67,000 last year, after taxes. I work 40-60 hour weeks. I have student loans that I'm almost finished paying off. I have no social media accounts. I've been financially supporting myself since I was 17. Baby boomers had affordable college and access to factory jobs with no scholarly requirements. Baby boomers lived in an era when one factory job could support a family of 4. My grandmother worked the line at General Motors and could easily afford a comfortable life for my dad and his brother. Those days are gone. This world we're currently occupying is vastly different than the world of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Income inequality has been constantly increasing due to a bought and paid for US government that threw it's people overboard in the late 70's and early 80's. Reaganomics anyone? Trickle down theory? The destruction of Glass-Steagall. Americans are currently working more and longer hours than any other first world nation. For less pay than what our grandfathers were paid 30+ years ago. Inflation anyone? Quantitive easing? Endless wars of aggression? Why do the CEO's of fortune 500 companies have pay raises that line up with inflation but no one else does? People are literally getting paid less for the same work while living expenses increase. Do people think this is an accident? The US government has been bought and paid for. The 1% is in control. The revolution is not coming. Marx was right. Orwell was right. Humanity is doomed. I look forward to rising oceans, I look forward to the day Manhattan, most of LA and Miami are swallowed by the sea. I look forward to hurricane seasons that last longer and destroy more houses and businesses. I look forward to the increase in wild fires due to severe drought. Human greed and stupidity has been allowed to get away with too much. The meek will not inherit the earth. They will be the first to die.
Someone with sense. 100% agree. Its the same the world over thanks to the 1%. If a person thinks the world is wonderful they probably spend their life on social media which is a look at what I have and you don't have canvas of hate all driven by big corporations (including the news propaganda).
You might try sticking to the subject instead of taking the opportunity to excrete out yet another manifesto of discredited Marxist propaganda and Leftist half-truth. But hey, it's youtube, can't expect too much.
No, those are interpretations and half-truths. The following is NOT a fact, but a conspiracy theory: "income inequality has been constantly increasing due to a bought and paid for US government..." There's several paragraphs of rebuttal to the socio-economic ignorance on display here (and Marxist memetic nonsense for just that excerpt) as to invoke Brandolini's law. The giveaway is the the usual mindless invocation of "Reaganomics" and "Trickle Down." Glass-Steagall? That pretty much had fuckall to do with anything mentioned prior to it. *"Americans are currently working more and longer hours than any other first world nation."* So? *" For less pay than what our grandfathers were paid 30+ years ago. Inflation anyone?"* Inflation is measured differently that it was 30+ years ago, so it's really an apples/oranges comparison. Want another factor in why people are working more hours for less? Obamacare. Quality of life has also increased across the board. Don't like Quantitative Easing? Welcome to the failure of central planning. I love the irony of Marxist tools whining about QE. The kicker is when "capitalism" gets the blame for decidedly un-capitalistic central planning. Endless Wars of Aggression? We're in Iraq because they were the aggressors against Kuwait. The reason its taken so long is because of an incompetent and corrupt UN. Try again. *"Why do the CEO's of fortune 500 companies have pay raises that line up with inflation but no one else does?"* Because their shareholders vote on it. They risk their capital to invest and get that right to vote. You don't. Deal with it. *"People are literally getting paid less for the same work while living expenses increase."* This is hardly universally true. Some do, some don't. Welcome to all of recorded history. The whole screed was bullshit from top to bottom and really has nothing to do with my worldview.
@@robishere7339 Right. You should have said, "Your lack of English skill is obvious." See how I removed the poor grammar and redundancy from your piss-poor reply? At your service.
Isn't it the parents, the predecessors of the millennials that made the world the way it is now, isn't it them who raised the millennials themselves? Isn't that like Frankenstein creating his monster, and then blaming the monster for who and what he is?
Yes and no. Frankenstein creating his monster is responsible to a point. But there becomes a time when the monster is responsible for who and what he is. The same with millennials.
That's fair, but if you do a poor job at creating him, and put him into a world that is a lot worse than before, and then say 'you are now responsible for your own actions and pretend you are not responsible in any way when he fails doesn't seem fair either.
did you even watch the video, that is what he started out saying and actually said the parents are at fault. Then the environment part at the end also addressed the same issue.
Mirage, again yes and no. Perhaps I'm misreading, but you seem to want to put blame on everyone but the Millennials. Parents, the world, its all against them and they deserve no blame at all. Pass the buck. Where does it stop? And with who?
Not at all, it just seems that currently the opposite is true and only the millennials are taking the blame, as where those really responsible are not. I'm just thinking the blame should be shifted to those who are actually responsible, but that doesn't mean that millennials are free of responsbility.
Yeah, speaking as a millennial no one promised me shit. I was told I could accomplish anything if I put in the work. I was told not to limit myself and to try and do better. If we seem frustrated it's because my Dad had no degree, had a job doing manual labor, and yet he could afford to buy a house and a car when he was 22 without help from his parents and provide for my Mom who was not working at the time. The reason people are upset is the cost of living goes up but wages don't match that rise. And most of us aren't coming into this work force with a savings. We're coming in with insane college debt. But yeah, I suppose we can blame the frustration not the participation trophy I got when i was 7.
It's called generalization. He's speaking for and about a lot of people. If you're not affected, great. You've learned how to be a decent human being on your own. The PROBLEM he's addressing is that there aren't many people like you.
Im one of those kids...got medals for losing, teacher gave me an a on a paper once cuz he didnt wannt talk to me parents and had to get to his kids soccer game (who went to a private school not even the one he taught at) and my parents always sat me in front of disney movies telling me thats how the real world is..like a disney movie..brutal eye opener after college...maybe ur parents didnt coddle you, but they still messed u up by telling you that you could be anything you wanted if you work hard..not true..you get rich from who you know and who you screw..not how much work you do...look at our president...dude wake up we are the F%^$ed generation..
I didn't play team sports growing up. I didn't experience everyone gets a trophy. I experienced as a kid with autism other Millennial brats picking on me and clueless baby boomers who wanted me to make up with them or wanted to force me into medications. So whenever someone wants to bring me down as a Millennial because of my age I let my fury go on them. I'm a NEET because people like me are bullied off the job. So whenever someone calls me a leech or lazy I feel no guilt. I'm just more hardened towards this society. Words can't express how much hate or contempt I have towards this society.
For Christ sake. don't you guys get it ? The use of social media, cell phones and technologies are 'OK' period. but but just within your limit. just don't make your life all about it.
He kind of is. His timeline for the beginning of the millennial gen is off by about 10 years. The millennial gen started being born in the mid 80s actually.
@@Evanw10282 they can't help how they were raised by the boomers 🤷 they were taught to be like this and now the boomers are complaining about the way they act and TBH I have seen many more well adjusted and open-minded accepting millennials then I've ever seen in the boomer generation. Millennials want to actually make a difference and change the world to be better than the me generation (ie boomers) left it.
Him comparing dopamine high from social media to alcohol and cigarettes was a bit disingenuous. Those substances have age restrictions, not because of the natural chemical dopamine, but because of the foreign ones: ethanol and nicotine. You also get a dopamine high from everyday things like listening to music, exercise and discovery. Should music have an age restriction?
I agree completely. His use of the word "addictive" is very misleading. Like sex and exercise, the science shows that tech is not addictive in the classical sense and the distinctions are still being assessed. It's certainly complicated and there are components that reflect addiction but his language and the assumptions discussed don't reflect this complicated phenomenon.
The point here is that the sources of dopamine you just named - music, exercise, discovery - are in fact activities that help you build your life. You are naturally programmed to be rewarded for these things because they help you out. In contrast, alcohol, nicotine, and yes, smartphones/social media generally really don't help you out that much. They simply exploit the dopamine-pathways that exist in our brains. Does that make them evil? No, but you should be mindful about your consumption of these sources.
Funny thing is most corporate HR reps would look at you askew if you told them you had no social media presence. His advice could make someone less employable.
Which is why he says you have balance it out. No HR rep would care if you have instagram, or facebook or twitter, unless you're career depends on being active in social media (actor, musician etc).
The "problem" with millenials is that your generation had something to win with patience. Your generation could buy a house in 10 years, then save for retirement other 15 years, in 25 years of work, you were done. My grandfather retired at 40. Today you can see mortgages for 50 years, and retirement? When you retire you will go directly to a nursing home, the house that was never yours will pay for the costs of you living there. You will be alive, that's what the banks and government use to evaluate your life expectancy, but you won't really be alive. So that's the life that the people like me, born after 1984 will have to live. So wherever we find meaning to our lives, has to be with something that will not take our entire lives from us. Be it eating, or traveling, or making an impact, even if it's small.
That comment is really on point. I am a Millenial and thats practically how I always saw the worksituation. 10 years and you have your own house, thats something worthy to work and learn for, something that for us Millenials was always far out of reach. Whats the point in working hard if all you can make only is enough to pay for a small flat and some food on the table.
Outright owning a home in 10 years time and retiring at 40 was NEVER the norm. Your entire point is based on that assumption, which is incredibly false.
We don't want free food and bean bags, we just want to be well treated, respected, and have a good environment, I'm gonna seem petty, but freaking microwave at canteen, cutlery, and not be treated as the property of the company, it's not because boomers dealt with poor environment that we want to work with the same conditions
I know a lot of boomers (or genX, or cavemen) that do some off the walls stuff and I'm just like I would die if I did that too. This is not a "generation" thing. Screw labels.
Disagree. It is failed parent. Single mom/single dad is not a badge of courage. It is a broken home. Blended family=broken home. Go play a video game, mommy's busy. Dad only comes around on the weekend.
"Through NO FAULT of their own". What the man said - sounds to me like he is saying MILLENNIALS, on the whole are totally stupid. I suppose he is correct since many NEED coloring books and puppies because their feelings have been hurt! What a load of crap. Grow up and grow a pair!
Anyone who is browsing these comments I'll sum it up for you: a group of people who agree a group of people making jokes about watching this on phones a group of people who think they are more clever than they are by making up shitty arguments to disagree with the guy
leedsfanalways you left out "a group of people who disagree". And this, case and point, is why anti- millennial arguments are an atrocious area. Hard to even seriously debate them when they're this oblivious.
What if Millenials are no different than any other generation? What if we keep complaining about the same thing about each new generation using the new technology and the same parenting as reasons for the differences? What if this is a common factor for every new generation? They will also grow up and change like every gen before them perhaps. I ask these questions because I distinctly remember the hate Gen X got. And have seen other articles and studies that support this view.
you are onto something there, the point in your life when you start going "when I was a lad" Everyone hates the next generation because they do things differently to your generation
Amaz3ments I dunno. I always liked it when I came home and President Obama had made his world famous microwave hotdogs on Wonder Bread for dinner. And he always chose a good book to read when he tucked me in.
Calypse Um it is TRUTH. This generation is so full of kids or adults who are all of these. So no he's not gullible. BY THE WAY, it wasn't meant to everyone of us but if you had to summarize the general idea of this generation then, yes. It is indeed the "truth".
You assert this is the TRUTH (we're writing truth in all caps now for some reason), but you provide absolutely zero evidence to support your claim. Opinions are never truth, that's why they're opinions. Facts and opinions are not the same thing. Just because an opinion resonates with you doesn't make it the truth. A 'truth' applies to all cases, yet I'm surrounded by 'millennials' in my life who work hard and stay humble. I also know millennials and non-millennials that fit Simon's description, but it has nothing to do with their age, or "technology dominating people's minds", it usually just comes down to the fact that they had shit parents or a shit upbringing. There are plenty of people that also fit Simon's description for the reasons Simon brings up, but to sit here and say the undeniable truth is that we were all given participation awards, granted college educations because our mothers berated teachers and demand free food is pointless and self-defeating.
I agree with his points. The fault in it though is that he like many others lumped millennials and post millennials together. which is why I assume he said "some have" because millennials never grew up with those points post millennials did. This lumping happens all the time to the point many post millennials think that they are millennials. Millennials is gen Y only. Gen Y ends between 1992 and 1994 majority of the time. However few mark it's ending 2000-2004 which this obviously contradicts that Gen z starts between 1993-1995 and never any later. This maybe why the two are just lumped in together. Right now Gen Y has been of age to be shat on like every other generation before us by older gens. Like gen why? ect and now millennial this and that. this while happen till we're majority about 40. It's more like a right of passage for each generation to be broad brushed as pieces of shits by the previous generations.. When it stops for us we will be holding the political power, I will enjoy seeing the same baby boomer generation who destroyed the housing market in my country purely out of self interest and greed have their aged pensions stripped from them.
the phone addiction is common across all generations. Gen X'ers are just as bad as millennials when it comes to being glued to their phones, and even boomers are, maybe to a slightly lesser extent.
So, you feel reverse justification makes it okay for millennials to be addicted to their phones because everyone else is, is that it? The point is he is specifically addressing the issues of millennials as they are the center of the discussion relating to employment. He backs it up with scientific research...its meant to be a constructive criticism discussion. If you took it personally, then my instinct tells me you're a millennial who should be paying attention to the facts. The rest of us can figure it out for ourselves.
Don't be triggered, he's not stereotyping, he's generalising. He has scientific studies/evidence to back his claims, he speaks for the majority of people within the group.
i feel like everything he mentioned other than the narcisism is just a result of bad parenting... i know plenty of millenials who where raised properly and dont have these negative traits
Also wtf is he going on about us being the generation of instant gratification??? Like bish if I want to stop being in pain from my fucking rotting ass wisdom teeth, I gotta wait weeks/months/years until I can actually afford to get them removed, if I ever can afford it. In the meantime I can get antibiotics off the "black market" or shit I can't afford to be prescribed, but can bum off a friend. It would literally take me probably 2-3 years to save up enough money to pay for a wisdom tooth extraction (2 teeth, both are causing me problems and would cost way more than I make in even one month. Let alone all the bills I have to pay and food for me and my child). Like, this is your tip as a business trying to hire millennials: Fucking. Pay. Us. And. Give. Us. Fucking. Healthcare. The end. I have 0 problems with working hard. I will scrub literal shit off the walls if I'm paid a living wage and don't have to suffer rotting wisdom tooth pain for years. I will scrub a fucking toilet with a toothbrush if I could just fucking live my life without worrying about being homeless from 1 missed paycheck. We are not fucking entitled. We are fucking desperate.
I first watched this video the month it came out, when I was 18 and in my first semester of college, very much at the bottom of the mountain. I've returned to it at least once a year since then, always thinking I had it all figured out. I was future oriented and worked hard all throughout college to be able to move to NYC soon after graduation. But when I got here, I wanted to get the professional job of my dreams right away. I sent out resumes and made flimsy connections with people and it just didn't work. Instead I've spent the last two years in a working class job where I help people every day. I'm building relationships at the cross sections of my deep passions. I work my ass off every single week. This week I got an opportunity that has put that old professional dream job into reach for the first time. A place for me in the world I didn't even know might exist, all because of that working class job I didn't know I would fall so deeply in love with. And it felt like a completely natural small step, just one out of the thousand that have come before it. I'm 25 now and I feel like I really understand this video for the first time.
Every generation: "The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise." - Socrates
I love how the people in the audience laugh in the beginning like it is all fun and games and later on they realize they are all fucked up in the head and noone is laughing :D
They are cunts with no manners. Understanding them won't teach them manners. We gotta start slapping them up. If they want psychological warfare they will certainly get it from me as i know they are immoral prefects of NWO.
It is rarely a good idea to characterize an entire generation based on your impressions of the worst of them. Gen X was also labeled as slackers, but I guess Larry Page and Sergey Brin never got the word. There are Millennials that conform to Sinek's stereotyped description, and then there is Mark Zuckerberg and a host of other Millennial entrepreneurs. This week a 37-year old Millennial will interview for the top spot at one of my clients. A 33-year old just took over as the head of a division with about $250 million in sales. Simon Sinek says that he meets college graduates who want to quit because they are not making an impact. He should give me a call. This Baby Boomer will happily introduce him to Millennials who are completely different than his description. I remind myself of this saying when I am tempted top generalize an entire group by the actions of a few: "All Indians walk in single file. I know this is true because the one I saw was doing it this way."
33 year old's are definitely at the older end of the Millennial generation. 37 years old is definitely on the edge of Gen X, but there are sources that identify those born between 1975 and 1982 as stuck between Gen X and Gen Y. This piece explains it: www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/signs-youre-stuck-between-gen-x-and-millennials?.owv4KP4LX#.kkrBeYBKR. So I'll give you that 37 isn't purely Millennial, but it isn't completely Gen X either.
My fuzzy math aside, I still think Sinek misses the point when characterizing all of an entire generation by the actions of a few. There are other factors that influence why we behave the way we do other than age.
Randy Pennington what you have actually done is give examples of outliers who are very few and far between...and those people you have listed do not even represent 1 10th if not 1 100th of the people you meet in your lifetime just walking the street and in the outside world ...that's like me working on wall street and saying poverty is a scam I see successful people all the time when in fact where I work is indicative of less than 1% of the population...
Superfluous Contemplation I get that, but my point is there aren't any laws/restrictions on eating and generating dopamine in that way. He specifically calls out alcohol, smoking and gambling as if they are the only sources for dopamine and saying "hey, these are all regulated but using your phone isn't". Also I doubt evolution accounted for gambling either.
@@savaget2058 I see your point, but I think the message he is trying to convey here is not that everything that generates dopamine should be restricted, only the substances and others which induce such a ridiculously high amount of dopamine in our brain that our bodies simply cannot cope with it and addiction develops as a result. The aim here would not be to restrict use of these for everyone - every adult has a freedom of choice in (most) of these things - but the issue is that young adolescent, highly-impressionable people whom we know cannot yet make decisions on the level adults can have unlimited access to such source of addiction. In a certain way they are psychologically not yet equipped with tools to full understand the perils or risks of such consumption but are able to consume it nonetheless. A great everyday example - have you ever heard a smoker saying "I wish I never started smoking, now I can't stop?". Have you ever asked them when they started smoking? Usually, not always but usually their answer is "when I was young", "as a teen" or "in high school". And usually they were warned at that time by their parents and other adults about addiction development, health risks, etc. but ignored them, as young ones tend to do. I do not think that restricting or regulating electronic device usage is possible, though. This scares me. As an uncle of a two-year-old nephew I'm witnessing a struggle of parents to minimize their young child exposure to TV, mobile phones and others in an age where they are constantly surrounded by those, and its unsettling to see how such young kids crave that exposure. Through release of dopamine such devices short-circuit their behavior because for young kids nothing in their immediate surroundings can provide them with such a high stimulus "kick" as those devices. This is terrible for kids development. Children should be curious about their surroundings, try out everything, explore, play with legos and puzzle pieces and all this things that help develop their brain in various ways. It truly is scary to see how all that curiosity and playfulness simply just melts away when they are presented with a screen, and unlike legos which will bore them in an hour (only to become interesting again in three hours), screens never bore them. How to handle that, this will we a huge task for all of us who will be parents to these new generations and there is no instruction manual for that.
“Work harder at you meaningless job to make significantly less than previous generations” -guy who gets over paid to say obvious platitudes in front of an audience
But it is not socialising that is the whole point. You can come across 10 strangers in the street and say "hi" to each one does that mean you've instantly made friends with them?
I'm confused. Where are all the kids that got into honors classes through parental whining? I never saw any of those. And I wonder where all my participation rewards are. Oh wait, in the garbage where I knew they belonged. Not that I ever had enough to bother counting in the first place. And I recall in high school after our school got second place, being told and agreeing that we basically lost. The people who point out the participation medals haven't actually interacted with any children at all. And I've never been told I can have anything because I want it, I've been taught that because this is america, I can do a lot of things if I want to... work for it. This guy needs to stop looking to social media complaints for his facts.
Actually there is only a small section of social media that he talks about, and he is correct. The way people get excited or addicted to social media, is correct. And he never ever said that every person, had their way like this. I had been in the gifted program from a long time during school, several classmates of mine had their parents complain, and forcing the teachers to put their child on the gifted program or else they would complain, you may have been taught certain things, but several others have not, many have cheated and passed through their lives very easily, unlike others who had been working their entire lives for things, and who had never gotten it, America is a wonderful country to study and get a job here, but it has never been a perfect place to get a job for or to study
@@stephaniemanucha4079 i agree, I've seen kids with parents who absolutely stresses the fact that their child NEED to have a certain form of approbation even though they don't really deserve it.
There never used to be ads to begin with. Are we supposed to deal with whatever gets thrown at our face? We are the customers, so I dont watch youtube videos with ads or youtube rarely at all anymore because of it. You people act like we have no options it's kind of funny
How do companies provide an opportunity to teach these skills (or change their cultures) when they are, most of the time, run by individuals from the same generation who failed to teach these skills to this generation while they were growing up - their parents?
Good comedy, like caricature, exaggerates traits for effect...Thus with this piece on millennials...I'm 66 years old and a retired fire officer...I was a Field Training Officer for over 25 years and have seen a lot of Gen X, Y and Millenials come thru the program...The Millenials are just a s good as the X and Y, and better than many of the Boomers (my generation) in many ways...I remember all the negative things the Greatest Generation said and thought about the Boomers when I was a teen and young adult and nothing's changed...For all the hippies they complained about there were several of us working and in the service (Vietnam)...Look at all our outstanding young cops, firefighters, nurses who are Millenials for just three quick examples...And take a good look at all the young soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen; young men and women who defend this nation...The enlisted ranks are full of Millenials doing a great job every day for us...I upgraded a phone today and was helped by three Millenials...What a great experience! Sharp dressed, clean cut, polite, friendly, personable, professional and highly efficient...So hang in there "kids"...Life is a struggle, but you'll succeed if you work at it and don't lose heart...You kids are all right by me...
It does. But want to know where that whole "piss poor parenting" thing came from? The higher levels of academia and government. The whole "special snowflake" bit is directly backed to the garbage pushed by Dr. Benji Spock and others. We've got an entire generation of kids that are this way because academia said "doing it any other way, will hurt kids." Those people went from academia to government and pushed their garbage as hard as they could. And it's probably going to take 2 generations if not more to fix the entire mess, provided that we don't end up in some massive war and are on the losing side because they're "triggered" over something.
Those "parents and educators" are using the ideologies and beliefs put, pushed and pumped up by people like Dr. Spock. You're looking at the kids and believing that the problems lies in parents and educators -- and believe that the infection started there. I'm looking at the original source of the infection, and that came from people like him.
This video made me sad. I fall in this demographic, and what he is saying is exactly the same sentiment I've had growing up. I don't talk about it either because I feel like it's my own shortcoming, and I'm still reluctant to believe in this sentiment. I'm suspicious about how much of my life is self determined against chaoticness.
Be white and charming and people will listen and assume you have something profound to say, when it's basic ''Karen' boomer talk about millennials. What a grifter!
Melissa De Soto It's not the devices that are stupid, it's the usage. I use it constantly for work and learning, it makes you a lot more efficient if you can use it well. If you want to avoid the distractions, delete all of the games, Facebook, and text only when necessary and not for conversation.
Actually, I've done all that- I don't even check emails on my phone anymore. It's everyone else around me that is sucked in & even my family members-the Millenials-who are absolutely consumed with their phones.
are the family members not on their phone watching television, shopping, socializing, etc? People are more social than ever now, especially the millennial generation. We believe in broad connectivity, and know not to limit ourselves to our immediate surroundings. Most people waste their time anyways, the waste is a symptom of society not caused by technology, but our long standing economic focus and priority towards activities that work against our health and our future. Technology is being blamed for the problems were not willing to deal with, one of which being the fact that our political structure is not longer serving us and is not compatible with our independent future powered by technology.
This societal disconnect makes total sense. Millennials are not okay with old paradigms. But, honestly, I don't think that's a bad thing. Corporations and governments don't have the control, manipulation, and persuasion over the populace like they used to. I don't think old cultural paradigms are superior. It's the Millennial generation that is demanding equality and justice across all classes. I think we are headed in the right direction and I think it's the Millennial who will be blazing the way.
Thats true but only with the help of previous generations, the whole standing on the shoulders of giants and such, even with flaws progress was made each generation.
Oh you are sooo RIGHT!!! It has nothing to do with going $150k in debt for college, being told starting salaries will be $50k-$60k a year. Then after 5 years of worthless college degrees being offered only $27k a year, which we can't even afford living expenses let alone minimum payments on those student loans, car payment, insurance, or saving for retirement. Go love yourself.
You have never been through a recession. You never lost your job, your savings, your house or your family. You just complain and complain and complain.
@@TonyMontanaDS You are right in that sense.... because I STILL CAN'T AFFORD A HOUSE, FAMILY, INSURANCE, OR RETIREMENT ACCOUNT!!! I have worked multiple jobs requiring 84 hours a week and still making less than what I should have been making right out of college. I can't LOSE something I could never afford in the first place. You have to at least have something first to be able to lose it. I graduated in the 2008-2009 recession.
@@DarkPrince696 Looks like you made some poor life choices. I just finished paying off my mortgage and make quite a decent amount. No help from dead beat parent either. Looks like you're just full of excuses.
@@TonyMontanaDS Looks like someone flipped their stance when they got the answer that the guy he was arguing against indeed went through recession, in fact, graduated in it unlike the boomer who was at least in an age where he had most of the life savings collected to pay off the mortgage for his "great life choices". Point is don't flip or don't make a wild assumption about the next guy in the first place.
This misses a huge factor in the millennial and gen z life. We’re growing up in a time where we have a fraction of the buying power of our parents. I believe that many of our issues are profoundly economic. Our parents were too patient with corporate environments and the capitalist economy. That led to a group of overworked people and wages that stagnated and now we’re dealing with the results. We can’t afford the life he’s talking about. Yeah we want meaning in our jobs and society is stifled by technology but we also want to make a living wage.
ensayofr so when someone is born at a certain point in time naming them a millennial. They are automatically entitled. That’s racism, but with age. Your ageist.
I’d like to add. A lot of people in that generation, myself included, graduated high school right around when the 2008 crash happened. I couldn’t find a job for nothing. Finally found one. Or so I thought. Due to company budget cuts, my hours went from 30-ish a week to 20 hours a week. I could no longer afford my utilities, food, or laundry mat after rent. Then I got cut to 10 hours a week. Then they tried to cut me down to only one 5 hour shift a week. By that point, my phone was long shut off which made finding a new job all that much harder. Couldn’t afford my rent any more. Got evicted. And it went downhill from there. My credit was shot. My rental history was shot. My employment history was shot. All before I turned 19. Spent 10 years on & off homeless. Mostly homeless. It’s an extremely hard hole to dig yourself out of. And the longer you’re there, the deeper the hole gets.
11:40 this guy looks like his entire world has been destroyed, like he's seeing the matrix for what it is for the very first time haha... Intense shit.
millennials are called pampered, we inherited a broken economy by a generation that was pretty much guaranteed jobs after university. we have more education and generally work longer in unpaid jobs than any other generation. This guy needs to sit down and remove all the bullshit stereotypes from his presentation (even though that would only leave a few seconds)
He's realistically addressing the fact that employers (not just 'corporations') have to deal with the younger work force -- and their 'condition' -- including addressing it and doing something to help this generation along, and for them to do a better job, develop patience, etc. It's either that, or hire none of 'em.
While I agree employers do have to do a better job helping the young workforce be successful. But it is again yet another thing for lazy millennials to blame there problems on, rather then looking within themselves for the solution. That is the only way to overcome adversity, dig deep within yourself and resolve not to be held down and held back, its up to you to find success not anyone else. This is what millennials need to learn.
I made the mistake of trying to track down this guy's reaserch to see where all of these claims came from IE: "millennials want free food and beer" and "their parents told them that they could have they wanted just because they wanted it". No prizes for guessing, he doesn't do any reaserch, he's not a psychologist or an expert in behavior, he has a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology, quit law school to go.into advertising and quit that to become a motivational speaker. In other words, he produced all of those observations about millennials from the contents of his mind's ass and supplemented that contents with cherry picked bits of studies that he read 'about' (not read), and farted it onto youtube. Every generation accuses the one after it of being lazy and entitled and they blame what ever "new" thing that generation likes. From Jazz, to rock and roll, to penny arcades, to soda pop to comic books to movies to heavy metal to MTV to video games and now facebook. It's all bullshit.
Ioan Popovici That's ceartainly true but it's true of everyone in every generation. It's his insinuation that this is "unique" and the result of modern technology and permissive parenting, neither of which did he demonstrate, that bothered me. Young people not having a lot of patience and knowing that they feel lost without knowing exactly why, is just part of being a young person.
Surprise! More glib potshots at a generation full of hard-working, conscientious, egalitarian, idealistic, wonderful people. First off, I understand that the "millennial" birthyears aren't set in stone but "1994 onward" is an absolute swing-and-a-miss; though, omitting those born mid to late 80s might be helpful in preserving some scrap of viability for this guy's BS argument, since those are the millennials who entered the workforce in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Boatloads of data clearly indicate significant losses in lifetime earnings for those people, yet there's a die-hard ensemble of millennial-bashing social commentators who somehow think "participation ribbons" are the *real* culprit - give me a break. It'd be laughable if it weren't so poisonous. And what is this fabricated trashpile about being raised by parents who always told us we were special? How about we base an argument on, I don't know, like, *facts* or something? Here's one for you: from 1980 to roughly the mid 90s (which is when most people would agree millennials were also born), divorce rates in the US were higher than at any other time in US history, both before and since. Meanwhile, millennials are substantially more likely to remain married beyond the age at which their parents (on average) got divorced, which is a rather inconvenient little bit of reality for peope who want to argue that our attitude of entitlement is spoiling our relationships. Y'know what I think? I think (American) millennials are the most spat-on and beat-down generation of the last centur not because we deserve it - but because we allow it. If there's one thing I agree with in this guy's fountain of bullshit, it's that we've got no self-esteem. We inherited families dismembered by divorce, college loans distended by out-of-control tuition inflation, paychecks (if we got them at all) devoured by predatory school, home, and automobile loans, and cities ravaged by unprecedented crime and incarceration. We inherited racially segregated communities, misogynistic traditions and institutions, a legacy of neocolonial exploitation, a burning planet and a towering military-industrial complex. And you know what? I think millennials have demonstrably, in some way shape or form, begun tackling and fixing pretty much every part of this inheritance. And as far as I'm concerned the Gen X and Boomer folks who trash talk us are pretty much just war-mongering narcissists who choose to disparage and demean because they are incapable of accepting even a modicum of fundamental accountability. I must have missed my participation ribbon/trophy/certificate, can't say I ever got one, but if I did you know what I would do? I'd say thanks and proudly hang it on my wall, right between the college degree I busted my ass to pay for and the professional engineering license I busted my ass to earn. Because a lifetime of bullshitters piling criticism on me and my peers has taught me to relish even a momentary compliment, and accepting somebody's congratulations (whatever be the merit) is never beneath me. Lastly, to all the Gen X'ers and boomers who choose to celebrate progress, who promote mutual respect and constructive criticism and persistent kindness both within and between generations, YOU are the people who have made our country great. Though you might very well be outnumbered by the naysayers and the haters, your voice is never lost in their din. Thank you for everything you've done for us. Peace out y'all.
I like Simon Sinek but I completely disagree. There has always been some basis for arguing that the "younger" generation is not as social, hard working, patient...blah, blah blah. The Millennials are as solid and no less solid and capable as any other generation. If he believes that Millennials are a result of bad parenting then (1) he clearly believes there is something wrong with Millennials - which he denies toward the end and (2) Why were their parents so bad at their job (which I think is also a silly notion - what proof does he have for this). There are always people looking to generalize either based on race, gender, income, age...what I have found is that whenever this occurs it is just not valid and is a result of missing what the real issues are. So what is the issue Simon? Is the issue that business leaders don't know how to manage Millennials? Give me data that supports this generalization? This is silly! Oh and if Millennials really are more impatient than previous generations then good for them because if you read the news I think a lot of previous generations have been a little too patient with finding ways to do things a lot better. P.S. I am not a Millennial I am a gen X'er
it was just a condescending way of putting that everyone born between 1994- after is spoiled,entitled,addicted. Honestly the most retarded interview I've seen in a while
@@satan9487 Since you missed the part where he said 1984 not 1994 it makes sense that you badly missed everything else he said, evidenced by your post. Yes, things seem retarded when you don't pay attention.
@@joym3357 th-cam.com/video/Ut7e-0X8lds/w-d-xo.html Even this guy puts down millennial's like he is a different kind. Watch it and I swear you will lose some brain cells. This is most of what I deal with and see on a regular basis. Simon doesn't need to cite anything when the kiddos do it themselves.
The are merely self centered, yet do had to work for everything in their younger years. Their problem is more of quickly not facing any social political opposition due to demographics. With the effect of being out of touch with reality and giving rise to egalitarian thinking. This in turn sowed the seeds of destruction in later generations.
I agree with all the comments about the host. But, Simon, constantly adding "right?" at the end of every sentence fragment is annoying, distracting, and presumptive. Are we all supposed to nod? I don't need to express agreement with every sentence fragment... right?
Ye it annoyed me also.. I know some of the things and how he said them might of been a BIT funny, but it was just like nervous awkward childish laughing. but everything he spoke was bang on right in my view.
Its easy to forget that the cost of living is increasing. Higher education is becoming more of a standard for good entry level employment. These two factors together create unhappiness in young adults. It sucks to know that after going through 4 years or more years of college, collecting debt, and living check to check even though you have a worthwhile degree that some people still have the nerve to ask you why you cant wait 30 years to have a couple extra 0s on your paycheck.
People of ALL AGES are having to deal with the same issues of cost of living increases, and higher education requirements. It isn't fun, and doesn't seem fair but we ALL have to find a way to deal with it. Sitting around whining and expecting others to coddle you isn't going to make life any better. I think that is what SOME Millenials expect from everyone around them. Most people work their asses off all their lives and still aren't making the extra 0's on their paycheck. It sucks for all of us.
Anyone else's mom making them watch this
I am making my kids watch it. As a mum, I worry I have failed them :( Time to say sorry
If you teach them to stand on their own two feet, give them good rules to follow in social situations, and show them that hard work can't be substituted for, then you won't have failed them at all.
Totally agree, we have always done that, but there is always room for improvement.
For me it is probably more to do with my example setting re; social media/phone usage.
Luca Gray yeah I just got fired from my job and my dad is making me watch 😂😅😓
Yep
I agree with some of what he's saying. I just disagree with millennials being "entitled". The boomers were entitled and got good jobs just by participating. You didn't need 3 degrees and a masters just to get considered for a position. I actually can't stand it when people try and blame the people with the least power for what's wrong with the world.
This guy is hardly profound. I've heard this on Fox News countless times. Yawn. He probably blames Millennials for Hillary Clinton losing.
You sound like a millennial. I'm a boomer... nobody gave me anything. I taught myself engineering while I was working because my family couldn't afford college (only 5 figures back then). It's a matter of having and taking the initiative to better yourself not "just participating". He's profound... you just don't want to hear the truth
I'm not a millennial. Good for you for teaching yourself engineering while working. Truly amazing. Not going to happen in today's world. You cannot get a professional job without a degree in today's market. That's just a fact. You can't just teach yourself autocad and start designing buildings. You have to go to at least four years of university.
Boomers spent and spent and spent leaving scraps for their children. But yeah, Facebook is what's wrong with the economy.
For a guy who taught himself engineering, you sure don't have a critical mind to see through the tripe this guy is spewing.
Just blame it on the kids straddled with student debt working three minimum wage jobs. Because they're lazy. But hey, at least you taught yourself engineering.
I honestly don't give a shit about your personal success stories. This isn't about you. It's about a shitty economy. It's about a shrinking middle class. It's about stagnant wages.
But just sit back and pat yourself on the back for your engineering chops. Showed me...
Yup, husband's bosses desperately wants to promote him, but HR won't let them because even though he has more than enough experience to do the new job, he hasn't yet finished his degree. Having a piece of paper that says "I learned stuff!" is more important than actually knowing what you're doing.
That said there's truth in this video. I've seen many of my peers crumble to dust at the first sign of trouble in the work field. It's frustrating. Thankfully it's not all of us, but enough to be a problem.
Entitled? Have you ever played an online game? Do you know that gamers get free rewards just by logging in. They don't have do anything other than just logging in. Entitlement is such a strong part of the culture now that game developers have to reward players for doing nothing in order to compete. Without these incentives, gamers would move on to the next game. And free stuff is just the beginning. The whiny complaints come pouring out if a gamer were to lose in a competitive tournament. The other free stuff given out just by participating (called "milestones") are not good enough. They want the top prize. Sinek claims that the "participation" rewards have lowered people's self esteem. If that's true, it sure did not damper their enthusiasm to demand that they still get the rewards even when they lose.
Ha, are you serious? The Boomers, like my parents, worked their asses off to provide for us. Its true that every generation has it easier than the last, but there definitely was not any entitlement in that generation. Their parents were far more disciplinary and focused on morals than the current generation of parents. At 12 or 14, YOU HAD TO START WORKING! Nobody paid for their cars, or their insurance, or any other luxuries they had. Everything had to be earned. Hell, most of them had to pay for their own college, since government assistance didnt exist. Where does this ignorance come from to make such a claim that the Boomers were entitled?
I read a book called 'Capitalist Realism' by Mark Fisher, and that book reflects the points made here, the idea that we, young people, are nurtured on nothing but the perpetual pursuit of pleasure, so it leaves us disenfranchised and confused with the truth that you can't escape suffering. It's a part of life that we've been taught to almost repress. He explains that our very consciousnesses are being constricted by education systems that run at the behest of bureaucratic governments, who neglect spiritual, human fulfilment in favour of hitting the numbers; mechanical, computer-like thinking, shaped for a world they're not prepared for - mentally, emotionally, spiritually, skills-wise etc.
I remember as a kid growing up i played baseball a lot. I was lucky enough to be a part of a talented team to where we always won, we were used to it. After 3 years, i was 8 years old and we finally lost a game and it was a championship game. Second place didnt get ANYTHING at all and I told myself, “this feeling sucks, I have to try harder so I never get that feeling again.” For the next 7 years I worked and worked with different professionals and when I stopped playing at 15 (health reasons) I looked back and loved the process i went through because my mental strength increased so much and I wish thats something kids today would understand
Am I the only 90s kid that agrees with him and that isn't butthurt about this awful truth?
You're not a kid anymore, you're a young adult. Don't keep referring to yourself as a kid and you will be a man
its no where close to true...
Aaron Orrantia no
Constantine Joseph.. 90s kid means you were a kid in the 90s.. Not that you were born in the 90s and Are now a kid... You are, what.. are 70s kid, an 80s kid? Not because you're a kid now lol.
Ahh yes #relatable we 90s kid are cool and hip
Excellent lessons we all need to watch and take notes. 📝 Thank you for sharing...
The video is very interesting as we can see how some so typical affects us to the point of being addictive.
The only part I like about this is that he's looking like markiplier
I asked a prospective tenant if they are renting at the moment because their move-in date seems rather flexible. She responds she is renting but may be able to arrange to stay on at the current property a little longer as my property is still tenanted on her proposed move-in date. She adds she will try to extend her stay at her current place but she can't promise. And that she is trying to be helpful to me. I find millenials to be an interesting bunch of people. They think they are entitled to kindness and if they respond to your question they're doing you a favour. My current tenant wanted grey walls and grey rug to match. Before she even placed the holding deposit she instrcuted me on ways to make the property more homely. The bathroom cabinet which was brown and did not match the rest of the bathroom suite broke the second day they moved in. The replacement was a white and matching and she was estatic. She also wanted know if I could increase the power of the shower. It's possible they'd mistaken me for Houdini.
Seems more like overall ignorance vs entitlement from a specific generation.
I admit I could be wrong, though.
customers suck dont they? lol
True, to a point when a Millennial comprehends this, and then it's all up to him/her! Because our life is what we make of it, and it is our responsibility. No blaming it on parents, companies, schools an so on....
This whining about the faults of millennials is so misguided. The boomers could support a family of four on one job. Young adults today can't support a family of two on two jobs.
The irony is so thick- The generation that had everything handed to them is complaining about the performance of the generation that entered the workforce during the worst recession in a lifetime.
You are correct. The millennials raised themselves because both parents worked. They stayed alone and learned to entertain themselves. Parents overcompensated by buying the things that acted like the TV to my generation did. But all these things interacted with the elements that are in this video.
the best part is host did not interrupt him even once. great job
Ganesh Nayak I noticed that. He didn't even need to be there.
Ganesh Nayak was thinking the same thing
I know! What a class act. Big ups to the host for letting him speak his piece.
Good hosts know when they have gold.
When you ask the right question, you don't need to interrupt. And his attention to Simon helped the thought continue.
I don't know the interviewer, but he did a fantastic job. He just sat there and here him talking. No interruptions. Seems silly, but these days where every interviewer wants to be also the star, is something rare to find
I was thinking that same thing. was wondering if anyone else pick up on him allowing him to explain!! more should listen then talking!! 👍
he is a millenial
don't interrupt simon sinek
Tom bileu is the interviewer. He’s a great guy. Check out his show “impact theory”
@@KryptonRecords i thought that too it was like “omg it all makes sense now this is so truths!... oh shit im supposed to be hosting"
People are unhappy because they finally realized they are modern day slaves.
TheRichie213 kinda, but most people just want too much and want to be better than their peers. if they stopped that, they'd be happier and could stress less.
***** The whole 99% are all slaves not just leftists. We are all free range slaves just like free range chickens. Born then a number,ss.card,birth cert, blood sample,teeth records,finger and foot print,vaccines,forced and brainwashed in school,forced to work in a money slave system in order to eat and have housing, robbed by taxes, millions of ridiculous rules ect.. People are sick of the nanny state. Can't even sell lemonade without being butt fucked.
that's why older folk make many of the talking points simon here says in this video. They're mad that even the most obnoxious idiots of the young folk realize that what the older folk have spent so much time and energy doing is bullshit and they want it done their way.
Some people are unhappy because they believe they are "modern day slaves" - devastated unfortunates who have no freedom to choose, no free will, barred from ever starting their own business, inventing a profitable idea. Like slaves, they believe they can't choose where to work, can't choose to work for themselves instead of an employer, are prevented from being in inventor, an innovator, a developer - even a leader.
Some might get self-help by reading Locke, Montesque, etc to understand the concept of people living in a commonwealth, the division of labour, etc. But most won't. They'll just remain outraged that if you want to eat, have a home, etc - then you'll have to lower yourself to having a job that pays you money, instead of being just given your needs.
Yeah, fuck them all for wanting to do something meaningful with themselves.
2016: "This generation are entitled and lazy because they go around glued to smartphones."
1995: "This generation are entitled and lazy with their personal computers, music players and gadgets."
1970: "This generation of pot smoking hippies is entitled because they never had to fight in World War like me!"
1900: "This generation are entitled and lazy because they have electricity and running water, and never had to work in the coal mine like me.".
1800: "This generation are entitled and lazy with their steam engines and machines doing all the work."
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10,000BC: "This generation are entitled and lazy with their fancy fire."
the last 3 don't work
I'll let you figure out why
JCummins47 I think a big piece that's missing is socialization. People are inept at basic communication. The dumbing down of connectivity.Social skills and personalization is becoming moot. If you cannot connect on a emotional level all is lost.
I think the generalization quotes above aren't exactly valid as a argument. I think your quantification is just opening you eyes look around you or talk to some millennials. While all are not effected are large amount are. Barely any social skills , glued to their phones heads down like like zombies. I often see teens texting each other on the train while sitting together. They are unable or more so willing just to type versus having a conversation.
JCummins47 All true - but look where we are! Half of society is next to useless, unfortunately. Ain't much good coming toward most Millennials.
I do see your point here and think its pretty valid - except where the stats showing depression and suicide suggest it might be different this time round...
Oh please, this continous complaint about the youth. Here is a quote from Socrates (2300 years before now) :
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."
I agree. All generations are very similar, but like evolution, social behaviours change slowly over time. And it's a slippery slope leading to, as he said, astoundingly poor mental health and attitude.
This guy is spot on with his observations.
Millennials are not children they are adults that are up to 32-36 years old. The children, or post-millennial generation are just starting to finish high school now, turning 17.
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But it's more than just bad manners and disrespect for the elderly. It's a surge in depression and suicide. Not only that, but a complete lack of basic social skills that every generation before now has had.
+Buckets - Complete lack of social skills compared to previous generations? Previous generations would socially ostracize others who didn't fit the same demographic as them whether they were black, gay, Native American, atheist etc. That's not to say some social skills today don't need improvement, but to broadly generalize and say ALL social skills have deteriorated is ludicrous. Millennials are the least prejudice generation is history, and yes, that is an important aspect of social interaction. Previous generations were weaker at being comfortable around people who were different. Can you imagine today if a white 20 year felt uncomfortable around a black person? That white person would face opposition from their white peers, compared to 50 years ago where they'd be supported.
Hard to believe that you can profit so much while being wrong about everything. No one should listen to this person.
Please explain where he is wrong if you are capable of doing so. I'd like to see another perspective.
@@MVK_GS Surely he had a lot to say. Just didn't want to share lol
Ok, I've destroyed my phone, what's next?
Live life!
If you got one, the iWatch also!
pay attention to what happens around you.
I literally saw someone wearing an iWatch at work and felt sorry for her.
Why would you do that?! he is a moron, like many other morons reminds me of the tv add, dad laughs at his kid "that's not how the world works" kid replays " The world is changing"
I watched this on my phone. Now I feel conflicted.
feel like i agree and disagree with him. All good intentions though, yeah sure patience is good but not working towards something and instead just working can be rough life. And it is unfulfilling. You have to "MAKE" a choice to go to the right path.
Carlo van Eijken so did i hahah
I'm feeding your dopamine levels by liking your comment.
I gave you a like too.. oh shit it's a chain reaction!!! I'll be back in a hour to check my likes on this comment.
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I really don't know where he's gotten these sweeping generalizations. A generational distaste happens, unsurprisingly, every generation between the older and the newer - the older often complaining about the newer's laziness and entitlement.
Entitlement and laziness is just as recurrent in the older generations as the newer generation - there's absolutely no evidence to support the absolutist claim that's the entire generation
There are alot of generalizations in his speech, however, previous generations didn't have video games, social media or internet prom...yeah they had their own "distractions" but the affect these have had on my (maybe OUR, idk your age) generation shouldn't be downplayed. Mostly talking about the latter two.
I'm so not against an age restriction on social media.
Me neither but how many adults do you know who are addicted to twitter or facebook? I would say many. Look I am eating breakfast. Here I am in my car on my way to work. Listening to my favorite song by so and so right now. Hope my sports team wins tonight. My kid won his baseball game. So and so for president. Please like me if you like what you read. Check us out on facebook. I have a zillion facebook friends. I just tweeted that Hillary took this state or Trump took that one. It gets ridiculous even with adults.
Restriction is not the best way to teach. We want kids to think something is wrong *because* it is wrong. Restriction means you're teaching people something is wrong because it will get you in trouble.
I understand what you mean but consider violence and nudity in movies for example or online. They are age restricted. Simply watching violence or six does not get anyone pregnant or diseased or maimed or killed yet we don't want our youth looking at it. So is virtual violence or sex bad? I we believe too much violence in movies desensitized one to real violence and too much pornography creates unreal expectations of what a woman should look like or she should behave then I do believe social media can be every bit as detrimental to real social interaction such as looking someone in the eye while you speak. please and thank you. Having a real friend instead of 102 likes on my Facebook page or I have 5629 friends on social media. I think does create a false relationship. It is bad
There already is an age restriction, its 13.
agwtaw2 loooool
LOL, highest unemployment and college costs EVER but millennials are totes entitled.
He's not talking about the unemployed. He's talking about how they behave in the work environment. If you're one of them, you won't understand because you're special.
Actually yes, I'm 31 and have been in a corporate job since i was 20. Speaking in generalities like this "all millennials behave as XYZ in a workplace" is fucking retarded. That is like saying "all people of (insert race here) steal" etc. There are plenty of people in this age demographic that didn't get a "participation trophy" (never got one of those btw). The point is lumping all people of an age group under "entitled millennial" is dumb.
"highest unemployment" Lol go back to school.
its so sad, that jacob and anthony didnt make it past the first sentence, otherwise they maybe would have understood, that it isnt about bashing millenials and wouldnt have gotten so defensive....
the only part i heard about entitlement in his speach was about parenting. He was talking purely about teenegers psychology and not about college availability or politics. But i guess you entitled to assume whaever you want. What is missing from you is loud and sarcastic "thx Obama". Everyone has various issues and problems but this video wasnt about them
I agree with him until he starts to shift blame to "corporations", or any employer, as responsible for making employees feel fulfilled. That's a cop out, and contradicts a key trait of successful individuals: self accountability. Until you understand that the world doesn't owe you anything, including happiness, you'll likely fall into a loser mindset - blaming others for your problems & shortcomings.
I don't think he meant it in a moral sense, rather this is increasingly the available workforce corporations have to choose from. The organization that can adapt to these specific set of struggles millennials have is the one that will have a better chance of retaining a long-term functioning workforce with higher productivity than their competitors, and thus have better outcomes in the open market. Organizations with leaders who have a mentality that their workers problems aren't the company's problems---well, enjoy the high turnover, the loss of productivity, the increasing training costs, etc etc. It IS the responsibility of the company in the sense that the company should care about the integrity and reliability of its labor pool, because a competent workforce is the only way to get quality product. You can't fire your way to success (well, a few can), it's just not a good HR strategy and reflects that your organization is not able to properly train its staff, or does not have the resources to recruit the top tier already competent talent, or just cannot make smart hiring decisions in the first place. You can't skip this generation (besides, the next generation will have a totally different set of problems). You can't import new labor from abroad either, not without another wave of Trumpian backlash.
That's how I interpreted it anyway.
You're right. He sounds like he could be speaking to an audience of managers at Apple, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, HBO, etc. But what if you're just working at a department store doing the same damn thing everyday? What if you're a driver for UPS or FedEx following the same exact route every single day? That's the job. If you can't handle the boring monotony of everyday life then you'll always be looking for a high.
Yeah total horseshit. He's making them victims. Its not a corporation's responsibility to "fulfill" kids, it's the parents job.
Older&Wiser People will work harder for a (corporate) vision than a dollar, there is partial responsibility on the company's behalf to motivate an individual
It's a valid comment. People are successful based on 3 things: the books you read, the people you associate with, and your environment (personal AND professional). If the corporate temperament is altogether negative, over time it has an astounding compounded impact on a person's ability to remain optimistic and in touch with reality. Corporations have a responsibility to provide for the people that work for them. An employee is someone who assists the company. To not value the life of the person you have hired to help you is not only profoundly dangerous for the business, but it's also damaging to the relationship you have with your employees. And it has been proven time and time again that employees who genuinely feel valued and supported work harder. We are a relational species, it's important those connections and sense of value are fulfilled.
He is wrong on one thing though, meaningfullness is beyond work ethics. Millennials are born in a society in crisis, and works is indeed meaningless if seen as destructive. There are no work ethics in Corporation, Politics etc... Work lost its appeal to a generation that sees Work as enslavement...physical, psychological and financial. Education cost, housing cost...Millenials are lost into a society looking for meaning so when they ask for a purpose they are not wrong because what is the point really...
Anything he says is right within the old framework, the paradigm of Live to work/Work to live...now the millennial wants Live to live...fuck work! and they are right, the work sucks bad...so build a new society, that is the millennial's job.
Stephane Nerbonne I agree with you, we literally just want to have a world with equality. Students have a hard time paying off their college fees like absolute sheep while they're young and deserve to have the right of freedom they were promised as a kid. We find reasons to study, to work and without proper reasons we have absolutely zero interest in doing so, thus forcing us to change the future of shithole of society that these old bastards who sit on the government chair are controlling.
***** Which studies? Such claim needs to be backed up with sources. Thank you
You seems to be lacking love Kronstadt. How about a big hug to you. I send you all my love so you start loving yourself more ☺
Stephane Nerbonne I agree with him on all levels and what you said makes compete sense.
Exactly, I wanted to add the same thing... when you have all the governmental manipulations, corporations funding wars and managers working for short term shareholders, why/how the F*** could this Generation trust in the purpose of the company he is working for?!
The nervous chuckle of the audience...
Lmao so true
Shit themselves
Most people are not happy. I don't think it's just millenials
@ensayofr my problem is that no one honors anything anymore. Even a few years ago this wasn't a problem. I've been on the phone for months trying to find a job and recruiters will straight up call and lie to me that they've submitted me for the position. Which would be fine if they were from India but not from America OK have some integrity in your ability to do your job. This "block everyone who bothers you" culture has completely screwed things up and people are invisibility protected everywhere today but the dynamic is backwards. "Oh don't be depressed have fun with your life" these little kids have ruined everything and what it means to be an American and the pride of being a human being and they are so "mommy's perfect child" they will never be harmed by anyone. I think that's what he's talking about, and it's screwing up our current workforce and the future will be worse. Think about it this way. You are already predisposed to only hear/trust about 20% of what I am saying because it is through the internet. In person you would at least hear out what I am saying. Yes you poor baby kids, you DO have to hear what I'm saying. You DO have to let things penetrate your tiny idealistic society. You DO have to actually DO your job. My problem is the current culture supports these kids let alone they are making the rules and that's not how an economy runs that's how it fails. So millenial question, don't let there be a question, just let these kids fuck up and learn. Don't help them
Nobody wants to work on themselves, nobody wants to seek wisdom because it's way harder than instant gratification. Then people complain...
@@MrHyonD: so true, but that's because they're afraid to look in the mirror of self responsibility. It's mostly finger pointing rather than self improvement.
that's why facebook was able to get 2.5B users, because it's more than millenials who are depressed.
Ryan I mean those of us that were lucky enough to be raised right and not to be entitled to everything aren’t as depressed. I’m happy, I’ve gotten myself together, going to college, certified in IT and right out of college will be making 90k a year. My parents raised me right, they didn’t tell me I was special and I was entitled to everything, they told me it takes hard work to get the things you want and life won’t always go the way you want jt
1:22 : Parenting
3:13 : Technology/Social media
7:25 : Impatience
10:23 : Environment
Thanks, I needed this for an essay.
@@pangolin7398 ROFL are you seriouse? Point 3.
@@360stab Just turned in an essay on social media and we had to use this source.
@@pangolin7398 this is so milennial to make essays about youtube videos haha
Here let me correct the links
1:22 click off the video
3:13 why have you not clicked off
7:25 it’s obvious this guy is ageist
10:23 why are there people writing an essay on this incorrect BS
When he talks about "friends" canceling if a better opportunity comes up really hit me
Lol obvious your not much fun to hang round with
It's ok sometimes depending on the situation
Lol me and my friends wouldn't be friends in the first place if that was true. That's kinda sad for you man
My family friend is a backstabber. We known each other for like decades but he still wouldnt inv me
This gives a really bad impression on people with chronic illnesses or anxiety or introverts
It really bothers me that people will so nonchalantly parrot what someone else has says. "Millenials are entitled. They're lazy. They have no social skills." The second they see some of this behavior on display, people will be quick to jump all over the story and say, "SEE? Look at this entitled millenial. Classic." I think that saying "Millenials are lazy/entitled" is a gross generalization that is mostly confirmation bias. For every lazy or childish millenial you see, I guarantee there at least 4 others that work their asses off. Millenials have tons of debt.....you can't NOT work hard to pay that off.
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Were you on your cellphone during the video? He did not say that at all!
what are his sources. so many logical leaps. Who are these Millenials he's referencing? Are these people he knows personally? What are his sources? He's making massive claims about millions of people based on what? A few studies?
You heard it - Simon Sinek will buy 7 billion alarm clocks.
Greedy Imp FREE @ Google Play he said for millennials you entitled imp.
Wait and see. There will be people in line for one too :)
- 1, + I have a watch ..... that I use !
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So to summarise the 15 minutes...
All he could have said was...
*Turn off your phone*
Ironic, given what he talked about :)
Do you mean lack of patience? I am not trolling or anything but what did you mean exactly?
azarel7 Its really self-explanatory what I said.
Khal Drogo
Apologies, I didn't actually mean you I was trying to reply to Seethu Natarajan.
Seethu Natarajan
What's the irony for you exactly? Again, I'm not trolling. I just saw the comment and I was seeing the irony in one way, but it may not be the way you meant.
I'm a millennial. I made $67,000 last year, after taxes. I work 40-60 hour weeks. I have student loans that I'm almost finished paying off. I have no social media accounts. I've been financially supporting myself since I was 17.
Baby boomers had affordable college and access to factory jobs with no scholarly requirements. Baby boomers lived in an era when one factory job could support a family of 4. My grandmother worked the line at General Motors and could easily afford a comfortable life for my dad and his brother. Those days are gone. This world we're currently occupying is vastly different than the world of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Income inequality has been constantly increasing due to a bought and paid for US government that threw it's people overboard in the late 70's and early 80's. Reaganomics anyone? Trickle down theory? The destruction of Glass-Steagall.
Americans are currently working more and longer hours than any other first world nation. For less pay than what our grandfathers were paid 30+ years ago. Inflation anyone? Quantitive easing? Endless wars of aggression? Why do the CEO's of fortune 500 companies have pay raises that line up with inflation but no one else does? People are literally getting paid less for the same work while living expenses increase. Do people think this is an accident?
The US government has been bought and paid for. The 1% is in control. The revolution is not coming. Marx was right. Orwell was right. Humanity is doomed. I look forward to rising oceans, I look forward to the day Manhattan, most of LA and Miami are swallowed by the sea. I look forward to hurricane seasons that last longer and destroy more houses and businesses. I look forward to the increase in wild fires due to severe drought. Human greed and stupidity has been allowed to get away with too much. The meek will not inherit the earth. They will be the first to die.
Someone with sense. 100% agree. Its the same the world over thanks to the 1%. If a person thinks the world is wonderful they probably spend their life on social media which is a look at what I have and you don't have canvas of hate all driven by big corporations (including the news propaganda).
You might try sticking to the subject instead of taking the opportunity to excrete out yet another manifesto of discredited Marxist propaganda and Leftist half-truth. But hey, it's youtube, can't expect too much.
M. Rowntree, perhaps if there were some actual facts, you might have a point, Sport.
This is exactly right. You should be the one presenting why us millennials feel the way we do at our workplace.
No, those are interpretations and half-truths. The following is NOT a fact, but a conspiracy theory: "income inequality has been constantly increasing due to a bought and paid for US government..."
There's several paragraphs of rebuttal to the socio-economic ignorance on display here (and Marxist memetic nonsense for just that excerpt) as to invoke Brandolini's law. The giveaway is the the usual mindless invocation of "Reaganomics" and "Trickle Down." Glass-Steagall? That pretty much had fuckall to do with anything mentioned prior to it.
*"Americans are currently working more and longer hours than any other first world nation."*
So?
*" For less pay than what our grandfathers were paid 30+ years ago. Inflation anyone?"*
Inflation is measured differently that it was 30+ years ago, so it's really an apples/oranges comparison. Want another factor in why people are working more hours for less? Obamacare. Quality of life has also increased across the board. Don't like Quantitative Easing? Welcome to the failure of central planning. I love the irony of Marxist tools whining about QE. The kicker is when "capitalism" gets the blame for decidedly un-capitalistic central planning.
Endless Wars of Aggression? We're in Iraq because they were the aggressors against Kuwait. The reason its taken so long is because of an incompetent and corrupt UN. Try again.
*"Why do the CEO's of fortune 500 companies have pay raises that line up with inflation but no one else does?"*
Because their shareholders vote on it. They risk their capital to invest and get that right to vote. You don't. Deal with it.
*"People are literally getting paid less for the same work while living expenses increase."*
This is hardly universally true. Some do, some don't. Welcome to all of recorded history.
The whole screed was bullshit from top to bottom and really has nothing to do with my worldview.
When people are discussing 'Millennials', they're usually painting an entire generation with an Anerican-upper-middle/upper- white brush.
nate vazquez exactly. And because if that non of this is valid.
Yeah because we're the only ones with jobs. How about those average GPA's and drop out rates
@@RofICopters post hoc ergo propter hoc
Your obvious lack of English skills speaks for itself.
QED
@@robishere7339 Right. You should have said, "Your lack of English skill is obvious." See how I removed the poor grammar and redundancy from your piss-poor reply? At your service.
Isn't it the parents, the predecessors of the millennials that made the world the way it is now, isn't it them who raised the millennials themselves? Isn't that like Frankenstein creating his monster, and then blaming the monster for who and what he is?
Yes and no. Frankenstein creating his monster is responsible to a point. But there becomes a time when the monster is responsible for who and what he is. The same with millennials.
That's fair, but if you do a poor job at creating him, and put him into a world that is a lot worse than before, and then say 'you are now responsible for your own actions and pretend you are not responsible in any way when he fails doesn't seem fair either.
did you even watch the video, that is what he started out saying and actually said the parents are at fault. Then the environment part at the end also addressed the same issue.
Mirage, again yes and no. Perhaps I'm misreading, but you seem to want to put blame on everyone but the Millennials. Parents, the world, its all against them and they deserve no blame at all. Pass the buck. Where does it stop? And with who?
Not at all, it just seems that currently the opposite is true and only the millennials are taking the blame, as where those really responsible are not. I'm just thinking the blame should be shifted to those who are actually responsible, but that doesn't mean that millennials are free of responsbility.
Yeah, speaking as a millennial no one promised me shit. I was told I could accomplish anything if I put in the work. I was told not to limit myself and to try and do better. If we seem frustrated it's because my Dad had no degree, had a job doing manual labor, and yet he could afford to buy a house and a car when he was 22 without help from his parents and provide for my Mom who was not working at the time.
The reason people are upset is the cost of living goes up but wages don't match that rise. And most of us aren't coming into this work force with a savings. We're coming in with insane college debt. But yeah, I suppose we can blame the frustration not the participation trophy I got when i was 7.
It's called generalization. He's speaking for and about a lot of people. If you're not affected, great. You've learned how to be a decent human being on your own. The PROBLEM he's addressing is that there aren't many people like you.
Im one of those kids...got medals for losing, teacher gave me an a on a paper once cuz he didnt wannt talk to me parents and had to get to his kids soccer game (who went to a private school not even the one he taught at) and my parents always sat me in front of disney movies telling me thats how the real world is..like a disney movie..brutal eye opener after college...maybe ur parents didnt coddle you, but they still messed u up by telling you that you could be anything you wanted if you work hard..not true..you get rich from who you know and who you screw..not how much work you do...look at our president...dude wake up we are the F%^$ed generation..
Raised by conservative Christians?
I didn't play team sports growing up. I didn't experience everyone gets a trophy. I experienced as a kid with autism other Millennial brats picking on me and clueless baby boomers who wanted me to make up with them or wanted to force me into medications. So whenever someone wants to bring me down as a Millennial because of my age I let my fury go on them.
I'm a NEET because people like me are bullied off the job. So whenever someone calls me a leech or lazy I feel no guilt. I'm just more hardened towards this society. Words can't express how much hate or contempt I have towards this society.
WELL SAID
For Christ sake. don't you guys get it ? The use of social media, cell phones and technologies are 'OK' period. but but just within your limit. just don't make your life all about it.
It's called bad parenting. That, mixed with the tech, is the problem.
Social media was designed to keep people distracted and addicted. These kids now days are just worthless pieces of $hit.
Wrong, the tech has only a positive effect.
wokey.
Right. If you only believe in economics and capitalist production. Human values are broader than that, however. Life's complicated.
Sounds more like he's talking about late millennials and gen z in terms of the phone aspect.
Even early millenials are glued to their phones. I see this in public transit. Everyone has their phone whipped out.
When millennials try to blame it on others
He kind of is. His timeline for the beginning of the millennial gen is off by about 10 years. The millennial gen started being born in the mid 80s actually.
@@Evanw10282 they can't help how they were raised by the boomers 🤷 they were taught to be like this and now the boomers are complaining about the way they act and TBH I have seen many more well adjusted and open-minded accepting millennials then I've ever seen in the boomer generation. Millennials want to actually make a difference and change the world to be better than the me generation (ie boomers) left it.
@@nanmin73 nah your just assuming
Him comparing dopamine high from social media to alcohol and cigarettes was a bit disingenuous. Those substances have age restrictions, not because of the natural chemical dopamine, but because of the foreign ones: ethanol and nicotine. You also get a dopamine high from everyday things like listening to music, exercise and discovery. Should music have an age restriction?
I agree completely. His use of the word "addictive" is very misleading. Like sex and exercise, the science shows that tech is not addictive in the classical sense and the distinctions are still being assessed. It's certainly complicated and there are components that reflect addiction but his language and the assumptions discussed don't reflect this complicated phenomenon.
The point here is that the sources of dopamine you just named - music, exercise, discovery - are in fact activities that help you build your life. You are naturally programmed to be rewarded for these things because they help you out. In contrast, alcohol, nicotine, and yes, smartphones/social media generally really don't help you out that much. They simply exploit the dopamine-pathways that exist in our brains. Does that make them evil? No, but you should be mindful about your consumption of these sources.
Funny thing is most corporate HR reps would look at you askew if you told them you had no social media presence. His advice could make someone less employable.
Which is why he says you have balance it out. No HR rep would care if you have instagram, or facebook or twitter, unless you're career depends on being active in social media (actor, musician etc).
He did not suggest no media presence.
The "problem" with millenials is that your generation had something to win with patience. Your generation could buy a house in 10 years, then save for retirement other 15 years, in 25 years of work, you were done. My grandfather retired at 40. Today you can see mortgages for 50 years, and retirement? When you retire you will go directly to a nursing home, the house that was never yours will pay for the costs of you living there. You will be alive, that's what the banks and government use to evaluate your life expectancy, but you won't really be alive.
So that's the life that the people like me, born after 1984 will have to live. So wherever we find meaning to our lives, has to be with something that will not take our entire lives from us. Be it eating, or traveling, or making an impact, even if it's small.
That comment is really on point. I am a Millenial and thats practically how I always saw the worksituation. 10 years and you have your own house, thats something worthy to work and learn for, something that for us Millenials was always far out of reach. Whats the point in working hard if all you can make only is enough to pay for a small flat and some food on the table.
Dimensiondoor working hard enough just to pay for a small flat and food on the table? Where im from, thats called slavery
Outright owning a home in 10 years time and retiring at 40 was NEVER the norm. Your entire point is based on that assumption, which is incredibly false.
Ricardo Serrano ritering at a certain age keeps rising....
That's pretty fucking deep.
The problem with this vague definition of a "millennial" is that it leads to calling people that are about to turn 30 "kids".
As if they didn't already?
What happened to generation x/y?
They got old and started calling everyone millennials.
I think millennial is more appropriate for 23-25 under, with this addiction age he's talking about
where i work your a kid until you prove yourself, theres a 51 year old "kid" on my job right now. im used to it haha
We don't want free food and bean bags, we just want to be well treated, respected, and have a good environment, I'm gonna seem petty, but freaking microwave at canteen, cutlery, and not be treated as the property of the company, it's not because boomers dealt with poor environment that we want to work with the same conditions
He makes a lot of assumptions.
are people using Facebook because they are depressed or are they depressed because they are using Facebook?
Maybe it's a vicious cycle like alcohol? Idk
Like all generalizations - a little of column A, little of B. Perhaps both sometimes.
Is Facebook the chicken or the egg?
Both
failed parenting strategies
*facepalm*
Marc-Antoine Chabot seriously though think about it I know a lot of kids that do some off the walls stuff and I'm just like I would die if I did that
I know a lot of boomers (or genX, or cavemen) that do some off the walls stuff and I'm just like I would die if I did that too.
This is not a "generation" thing. Screw labels.
Disagree. It is failed parent. Single mom/single dad is not a badge of courage. It is a broken home. Blended family=broken home. Go play a video game, mommy's busy. Dad only comes around on the weekend.
"Through NO FAULT of their own". What the man said - sounds to me like he is saying MILLENNIALS, on the whole are totally stupid. I suppose he is correct since many NEED coloring books and puppies because their feelings have been hurt! What a load of crap. Grow up and grow a pair!
Where can I sign up for me free alarm clock?
Entitlement argument - proven. 😊
@@omersapir6781 Doesnt understand jokes and most definetly isnt fun to be around because hes taking everything too serious in life - proven. 😊
@@CarolinDnB Hmm... I think he was joking though
@@louisduong2090 i was replying to the reply, not the comment
@@CarolinDnB i know
Anyone who is browsing these comments I'll sum it up for you:
a group of people who agree
a group of people making jokes about watching this on phones
a group of people who think they are more clever than they are by making up shitty arguments to disagree with the guy
leedsfanalways is the man! haha
leedsfanalways I agreed because I'm experiencing this.
and a group of people who blame the older generation so it's still 'not my fault' !!
Lesley Bless Ha, exactly...
leedsfanalways you left out "a group of people who disagree". And this, case and point, is why anti- millennial arguments are an atrocious area. Hard to even seriously debate them when they're this oblivious.
What if Millenials are no different than any other generation? What if we keep complaining about the same thing about each new generation using the new technology and the same parenting as reasons for the differences? What if this is a common factor for every new generation? They will also grow up and change like every gen before them perhaps. I ask these questions because I distinctly remember the hate Gen X got. And have seen other articles and studies that support this view.
you are onto something there, the point in your life when you start going "when I was a lad"
Everyone hates the next generation because they do things differently to your generation
This Generation was raised by Obama. So it's worse then usual.
Amaz3ments I dunno. I always liked it when I came home and President Obama had made his world famous microwave hotdogs on Wonder Bread for dinner. And he always chose a good book to read when he tucked me in.
Amaz3ments than
Isaiah Freeman it's those that understand the system, and use it to their advantage, that benefit.
I feel ashamed to hear the truth, but very inspired to change this truth
How are you helping change the narrative?
If you think one man's opinion of an entire group of people is the 'truth', you're fairly gullible.
Calypse Um it is TRUTH. This generation is so full of kids or adults who are all of these. So no he's not gullible. BY THE WAY, it wasn't meant to everyone of us but if you had to summarize the general idea of this generation then, yes. It is indeed the "truth".
You assert this is the TRUTH (we're writing truth in all caps now for some reason), but you provide absolutely zero evidence to support your claim. Opinions are never truth, that's why they're opinions. Facts and opinions are not the same thing. Just because an opinion resonates with you doesn't make it the truth. A 'truth' applies to all cases, yet I'm surrounded by 'millennials' in my life who work hard and stay humble. I also know millennials and non-millennials that fit Simon's description, but it has nothing to do with their age, or "technology dominating people's minds", it usually just comes down to the fact that they had shit parents or a shit upbringing. There are plenty of people that also fit Simon's description for the reasons Simon brings up, but to sit here and say the undeniable truth is that we were all given participation awards, granted college educations because our mothers berated teachers and demand free food is pointless and self-defeating.
I agree with his points. The fault in it though is that he like many others lumped millennials and post millennials together. which is why I assume he said "some have" because millennials never grew up with those points post millennials did. This lumping happens all the time to the point many post millennials think that they are millennials. Millennials is gen Y only. Gen Y ends between 1992 and 1994 majority of the time. However few mark it's ending 2000-2004 which this obviously contradicts that Gen z starts between 1993-1995 and never any later. This maybe why the two are just lumped in together. Right now Gen Y has been of age to be shat on like every other generation before us by older gens. Like gen why? ect and now millennial this and that. this while happen till we're majority about 40. It's more like a right of passage for each generation to be broad brushed as pieces of shits by the previous generations.. When it stops for us we will be holding the political power, I will enjoy seeing the same baby boomer generation who destroyed the housing market in my country purely out of self interest and greed have their aged pensions stripped from them.
the phone addiction is common across all generations. Gen X'ers are just as bad as millennials when it comes to being glued to their phones, and even boomers are, maybe to a slightly lesser extent.
So, you feel reverse justification makes it okay for millennials to be addicted to their phones because everyone else is, is that it? The point is he is specifically addressing the issues of millennials as they are the center of the discussion relating to employment. He backs it up with scientific research...its meant to be a constructive criticism discussion. If you took it personally, then my instinct tells me you're a millennial who should be paying attention to the facts. The rest of us can figure it out for ourselves.
i can tell you that the level of addiction aint the same we as millenials are a lot more addicted
Good talk! But don't put all in the same bag! People are individually different!
Yeah, he's going to sit there and talk about all the different personalities, right?
And stereotyping is correct, right?
Alex M and stereotyping is correct, right?
Don't be triggered, he's not stereotyping, he's generalising. He has scientific studies/evidence to back his claims, he speaks for the majority of people within the group.
Gajan Balasubramanjam see you're being dramatic. U must be a millennial. 👍
i feel like everything he mentioned other than the narcisism is just a result of bad parenting... i know plenty of millenials who where raised properly and dont have these negative traits
I agree with you in an 80 percent... the rest it's our world that is changing and we learn from everyone, not only from our parents.
Also wtf is he going on about us being the generation of instant gratification??? Like bish if I want to stop being in pain from my fucking rotting ass wisdom teeth, I gotta wait weeks/months/years until I can actually afford to get them removed, if I ever can afford it. In the meantime I can get antibiotics off the "black market" or shit I can't afford to be prescribed, but can bum off a friend. It would literally take me probably 2-3 years to save up enough money to pay for a wisdom tooth extraction (2 teeth, both are causing me problems and would cost way more than I make in even one month. Let alone all the bills I have to pay and food for me and my child). Like, this is your tip as a business trying to hire millennials: Fucking. Pay. Us. And. Give. Us. Fucking. Healthcare. The end. I have 0 problems with working hard. I will scrub literal shit off the walls if I'm paid a living wage and don't have to suffer rotting wisdom tooth pain for years. I will scrub a fucking toilet with a toothbrush if I could just fucking live my life without worrying about being homeless from 1 missed paycheck. We are not fucking entitled. We are fucking desperate.
I first watched this video the month it came out, when I was 18 and in my first semester of college, very much at the bottom of the mountain. I've returned to it at least once a year since then, always thinking I had it all figured out. I was future oriented and worked hard all throughout college to be able to move to NYC soon after graduation. But when I got here, I wanted to get the professional job of my dreams right away. I sent out resumes and made flimsy connections with people and it just didn't work. Instead I've spent the last two years in a working class job where I help people every day. I'm building relationships at the cross sections of my deep passions. I work my ass off every single week.
This week I got an opportunity that has put that old professional dream job into reach for the first time. A place for me in the world I didn't even know might exist, all because of that working class job I didn't know I would fall so deeply in love with. And it felt like a completely natural small step, just one out of the thousand that have come before it. I'm 25 now and I feel like I really understand this video for the first time.
Good, I’m glad for you!
Excellent!! Working toward one of many finite goals on your way to your infinite goals! What a great way to maneuver in life!!!
This is awesome!
Every generation: "The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise." - Socrates
lmfao. if only he took out "Now".
I love how the people in the audience laugh in the beginning like it is all fun and games and later on they realize they are all fucked up in the head and noone is laughing :D
Thing is, it'll make them think during the tine they are there, but once they're at home, it's all gone in one ear and out the other.
Haaaaa i know
They are cunts with no manners. Understanding them won't teach them manners. We gotta start slapping them up. If they want psychological warfare they will certainly get it from me as i know they are immoral prefects of NWO.
art sol Then explain Antifa
@@ruebencristobal7790 goes both ways with opposing sides
Ok Boomer.
It is rarely a good idea to characterize an entire generation based on your impressions of the worst of them. Gen X was also labeled as slackers, but I guess Larry Page and Sergey Brin never got the word. There are Millennials that conform to Sinek's stereotyped description, and then there is Mark Zuckerberg and a host of other Millennial entrepreneurs. This week a 37-year old Millennial will interview for the top spot at one of my clients. A 33-year old just took over as the head of a division with about $250 million in sales.
Simon Sinek says that he meets college graduates who want to quit because they are not making an impact. He should give me a call. This Baby Boomer will happily introduce him to Millennials who are completely different than his description.
I remind myself of this saying when I am tempted top generalize an entire group by the actions of a few: "All Indians walk in single file. I know this is true because the one I saw was doing it this way."
They are just trying to figure out the general solutions. For that endeavor, they are on track
Except a 37 year old and a 33 year old aren't millenials
33 year old's are definitely at the older end of the Millennial generation. 37 years old is definitely on the edge of Gen X, but there are sources that identify those born between 1975 and 1982 as stuck between Gen X and Gen Y. This piece explains it: www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/signs-youre-stuck-between-gen-x-and-millennials?.owv4KP4LX#.kkrBeYBKR.
So I'll give you that 37 isn't purely Millennial, but it isn't completely Gen X either.
My fuzzy math aside, I still think Sinek misses the point when characterizing all of an entire generation by the actions of a few. There are other factors that influence why we behave the way we do other than age.
Randy Pennington what you have actually done is give examples of outliers who are very few and far between...and those people you have listed do not even represent 1 10th if not 1 100th of the people you meet in your lifetime just walking the street and in the outside world ...that's like me working on wall street and saying poverty is a scam I see successful people all the time when in fact where I work is indicative of less than 1% of the population...
As I watch this on my phone.
Typical "Millennial" response.You just validated what Siman is talking about. Hehehe....
Leo Defarias hilarious.
Leo Defarias Hold this L
@@defariase "Hehehe"
cringe
Dopamine also is generated while eating. No restrictions on that either.
Indeed, but there is an evolutionary reason why dopamine is released when we eat food. Evolution did not account for electronic devices, though.
Superfluous Contemplation I get that, but my point is there aren't any laws/restrictions on eating and generating dopamine in that way. He specifically calls out alcohol, smoking and gambling as if they are the only sources for dopamine and saying "hey, these are all regulated but using your phone isn't".
Also I doubt evolution accounted for gambling either.
@@savaget2058 I see your point, but I think the message he is trying to convey here is not that everything that generates dopamine should be restricted, only the substances and others which induce such a ridiculously high amount of dopamine in our brain that our bodies simply cannot cope with it and addiction develops as a result.
The aim here would not be to restrict use of these for everyone - every adult has a freedom of choice in (most) of these things - but the issue is that young adolescent, highly-impressionable people whom we know cannot yet make decisions on the level adults can have unlimited access to such source of addiction. In a certain way they are psychologically not yet equipped with tools to full understand the perils or risks of such consumption but are able to consume it nonetheless.
A great everyday example - have you ever heard a smoker saying "I wish I never started smoking, now I can't stop?". Have you ever asked them when they started smoking? Usually, not always but usually their answer is "when I was young", "as a teen" or "in high school". And usually they were warned at that time by their parents and other adults about addiction development, health risks, etc. but ignored them, as young ones tend to do.
I do not think that restricting or regulating electronic device usage is possible, though. This scares me. As an uncle of a two-year-old nephew I'm witnessing a struggle of parents to minimize their young child exposure to TV, mobile phones and others in an age where they are constantly surrounded by those, and its unsettling to see how such young kids crave that exposure. Through release of dopamine such devices short-circuit their behavior because for young kids nothing in their immediate surroundings can provide them with such a high stimulus "kick" as those devices. This is terrible for kids development.
Children should be curious about their surroundings, try out everything, explore, play with legos and puzzle pieces and all this things that help develop their brain in various ways. It truly is scary to see how all that curiosity and playfulness simply just melts away when they are presented with a screen, and unlike legos which will bore them in an hour (only to become interesting again in three hours), screens never bore them. How to handle that, this will we a huge task for all of us who will be parents to these new generations and there is no instruction manual for that.
yeah why do you think all of America is obese
I´m not sure on the science but I believe that eating releases way less dopamine than technology.
“Work harder at you meaningless job to make significantly less than previous generations” -guy who gets over paid to say obvious platitudes in front of an audience
I wish I had 10 friends to send "hi, hi, hi, hi....:"
Same. So I might as well say hello.
Wait What? You don't even have friends on the phone? You really suck at friendships!.. Haha just joking. :)
But it is not socialising that is the whole point. You can come across 10 strangers in the street and say "hi" to each one does that mean you've instantly made friends with them?
I'm confused. Where are all the kids that got into honors classes through parental whining? I never saw any of those. And I wonder where all my participation rewards are. Oh wait, in the garbage where I knew they belonged. Not that I ever had enough to bother counting in the first place. And I recall in high school after our school got second place, being told and agreeing that we basically lost. The people who point out the participation medals haven't actually interacted with any children at all. And I've never been told I can have anything because I want it, I've been taught that because this is america, I can do a lot of things if I want to... work for it. This guy needs to stop looking to social media complaints for his facts.
Yah he's a moron. Completely ignores the socioeconomic factors as well.
I've seen them. This on point
Actually there is only a small section of social media that he talks about, and he is correct. The way people get excited or addicted to social media, is correct. And he never ever said that every person, had their way like this. I had been in the gifted program from a long time during school, several classmates of mine had their parents complain, and forcing the teachers to put their child on the gifted program or else they would complain, you may have been taught certain things, but several others have not, many have cheated and passed through their lives very easily, unlike others who had been working their entire lives for things, and who had never gotten it, America is a wonderful country to study and get a job here, but it has never been a perfect place to get a job for or to study
Is that all you took from this? The unrelatable parenting part? A lil bit from soc med?
@@stephaniemanucha4079 i agree, I've seen kids with parents who absolutely stresses the fact that their child NEED to have a certain form of approbation even though they don't really deserve it.
That moment when I can’t wait 5 seconds for the ad to finish in front of a TH-cam video. He’s right. There’s no patience.
Well it makes sense to not want to watch an ad you don’t want to see? What’s wrong with that
@@legatronsquatasaurus7831 Not wanting something isn't the issue. It's not being able to wait for something I want.
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There never used to be ads to begin with. Are we supposed to deal with whatever gets thrown at our face? We are the customers, so I dont watch youtube videos with ads or youtube rarely at all anymore because of it. You people act like we have no options it's kind of funny
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Stocks are good but crypto is more profitable
I wanted to trade crypto but got confused by the fluctuations in price
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time he said that? thank u
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@@sohailalamkhel9220 thanks
How do companies provide an opportunity to teach these skills (or change their cultures) when they are, most of the time, run by individuals from the same generation who failed to teach these skills to this generation while they were growing up - their parents?
Good comedy, like caricature, exaggerates traits for effect...Thus with this piece on millennials...I'm 66 years old and a retired fire officer...I was a Field Training Officer for over 25 years and have seen a lot of Gen X, Y and Millenials come thru the program...The Millenials are just a s good as the X and Y, and better than many of the Boomers (my generation) in many ways...I remember all the negative things the Greatest Generation said and thought about the Boomers when I was a teen and young adult and nothing's changed...For all the hippies they complained about there were several of us working and in the service (Vietnam)...Look at all our outstanding young cops, firefighters, nurses who are Millenials for just three quick examples...And take a good look at all the young soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen; young men and women who defend this nation...The enlisted ranks are full of Millenials doing a great job every day for us...I upgraded a phone today and was helped by three Millenials...What a great experience! Sharp dressed, clean cut, polite, friendly, personable, professional and highly efficient...So hang in there "kids"...Life is a struggle, but you'll succeed if you work at it and don't lose heart...You kids are all right by me...
Soo.. Is the definition of irony the fact that I'm watching this on my phone on TH-cam?
The first daycare generation because both parents had to work. It wasn't an option like before.
Enough said.
Makes total sense.
Anthony Lopez That point is fair enough, but his general message is inspiring
It does. But want to know where that whole "piss poor parenting" thing came from? The higher levels of academia and government. The whole "special snowflake" bit is directly backed to the garbage pushed by Dr. Benji Spock and others. We've got an entire generation of kids that are this way because academia said "doing it any other way, will hurt kids." Those people went from academia to government and pushed their garbage as hard as they could. And it's probably going to take 2 generations if not more to fix the entire mess, provided that we don't end up in some massive war and are on the losing side because they're "triggered" over something.
Those "parents and educators" are using the ideologies and beliefs put, pushed and pumped up by people like Dr. Spock. You're looking at the kids and believing that the problems lies in parents and educators -- and believe that the infection started there. I'm looking at the original source of the infection, and that came from people like him.
Bad parenting is also an issue that is widely criticised because it's the truth, and a lot of us love living in denial.
This video made me sad. I fall in this demographic, and what he is saying is exactly the same sentiment I've had growing up. I don't talk about it either because I feel like it's my own shortcoming, and I'm still reluctant to believe in this sentiment. I'm suspicious about how much of my life is self determined against chaoticness.
Be white and charming and people will listen and assume you have something profound to say, when it's basic ''Karen' boomer talk about millennials. What a grifter!
Wow! Yes, I believe this is true. I am so sad. But. Im glad I grew up without these stupid electronic devices. I fear for the future generations.
Melissa De Soto It's not the devices that are stupid, it's the usage. I use it constantly for work and learning, it makes you a lot more efficient if you can use it well. If you want to avoid the distractions, delete all of the games, Facebook, and text only when necessary and not for conversation.
Actually, I've done all that- I don't even check emails on my phone anymore. It's everyone else around me that is sucked in & even my family members-the Millenials-who are absolutely consumed with their phones.
are the family members not on their phone watching television, shopping, socializing, etc? People are more social than ever now, especially the millennial generation. We believe in broad connectivity, and know not to limit ourselves to our immediate surroundings. Most people waste their time anyways, the waste is a symptom of society not caused by technology, but our long standing economic focus and priority towards activities that work against our health and our future. Technology is being blamed for the problems were not willing to deal with, one of which being the fact that our political structure is not longer serving us and is not compatible with our independent future powered by technology.
I agree that near constant gratification could be extremely distracting and detrimental.
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This societal disconnect makes total sense. Millennials are not okay with old paradigms. But, honestly, I don't think that's a bad thing. Corporations and governments don't have the control, manipulation, and persuasion over the populace like they used to. I don't think old cultural paradigms are superior. It's the Millennial generation that is demanding equality and justice across all classes. I think we are headed in the right direction and I think it's the Millennial who will be blazing the way.
Thats true but only with the help of previous generations, the whole standing on the shoulders of giants and such, even with flaws progress was made each generation.
Exactly.
(My exactly is for Thad's comment.)
I feel like he's talking about upper middle-class millenials. Most of us have to work hard because the last generation ruined the economy.
Bingo - it also applies to GenX. The boomers ruined everything, we got it bad, you got it worse...
@@Zoolookuk Milennials are like sugar: put some watetof them and they melt. Omg, what a hopeless generation that is.
rick frenay ok boomer.
rick frenay did the kids teach you “omg” cuz wow it’s like you almost know how to use it
Every generation since the industrial age has had a boom and then a bust. It's not unique to one generation. One day our kids will say this about us
Oh you are sooo RIGHT!!! It has nothing to do with going $150k in debt for college, being told starting salaries will be $50k-$60k a year. Then after 5 years of worthless college degrees being offered only $27k a year, which we can't even afford living expenses let alone minimum payments on those student loans, car payment, insurance, or saving for retirement. Go love yourself.
You have never been through a recession. You never lost your job, your savings, your house or your family. You just complain and complain and complain.
@@TonyMontanaDS You are right in that sense.... because I STILL CAN'T AFFORD A HOUSE, FAMILY, INSURANCE, OR RETIREMENT ACCOUNT!!! I have worked multiple jobs requiring 84 hours a week and still making less than what I should have been making right out of college. I can't LOSE something I could never afford in the first place. You have to at least have something first to be able to lose it. I graduated in the 2008-2009 recession.
@@DarkPrince696 Looks like you made some poor life choices. I just finished paying off my mortgage and make quite a decent amount. No help from dead beat parent either. Looks like you're just full of excuses.
@@TonyMontanaDS When were you born?
@@TonyMontanaDS Looks like someone flipped their stance when they got the answer that the guy he was arguing against indeed went through recession, in fact, graduated in it unlike the boomer who was at least in an age where he had most of the life savings collected to pay off the mortgage for his "great life choices". Point is don't flip or don't make a wild assumption about the next guy in the first place.
This misses a huge factor in the millennial and gen z life. We’re growing up in a time where we have a fraction of the buying power of our parents. I believe that many of our issues are profoundly economic. Our parents were too patient with corporate environments and the capitalist economy. That led to a group of overworked people and wages that stagnated and now we’re dealing with the results. We can’t afford the life he’s talking about. Yeah we want meaning in our jobs and society is stifled by technology but we also want to make a living wage.
This is why there’s an important difference between a talented speaker and a factual speaker.
Arial Slater Gen Y are they the best generation ever
What’s the difference between millennial and a human. A millennial doesn’t exist a human does.
ensayofr so when someone is born at a certain point in time naming them a millennial. They are automatically entitled. That’s racism, but with age. Your ageist.
I could not have said it better 👍🏻
Arial Slater Isnt the whole point of speaking to express truths to wider audiences to begin with? It’s a shame many speakers dont do that
I’d like to add. A lot of people in that generation, myself included, graduated high school right around when the 2008 crash happened. I couldn’t find a job for nothing. Finally found one. Or so I thought. Due to company budget cuts, my hours went from 30-ish a week to 20 hours a week. I could no longer afford my utilities, food, or laundry mat after rent. Then I got cut to 10 hours a week. Then they tried to cut me down to only one 5 hour shift a week. By that point, my phone was long shut off which made finding a new job all that much harder. Couldn’t afford my rent any more. Got evicted. And it went downhill from there. My credit was shot. My rental history was shot. My employment history was shot. All before I turned 19. Spent 10 years on & off homeless. Mostly homeless. It’s an extremely hard hole to dig yourself out of. And the longer you’re there, the deeper the hole gets.
I've been there and kudos to you for finding your way out. Interesting how those kinds of situations show us who we are and make us stronger.
exactly!! this experience in common among our generation.
I'm watching this on my phone during dinner with my friends
Camel747 I'm watching this on my phone. Had it sent to me by my dad... from his phone xD
11:40 this guy looks like his entire world has been destroyed, like he's seeing the matrix for what it is for the very first time haha... Intense shit.
Anyone who comments that he's "millennial bashing" or "just another millennial basher" did not pay any attention to what he actually said.
Russ Avery Good try at trying to sound like the smartest guy but we can understand what this idiot is saying we just don’t agree with him.
Attention is hard to hold on to in the digital age Russ.
Thank you for commenting this. See these are the people i wanna listen to.
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millennials are called pampered, we inherited a broken economy by a generation that was pretty much guaranteed jobs after university. we have more education and generally work longer in unpaid jobs than any other generation. This guy needs to sit down and remove all the bullshit stereotypes from his presentation (even though that would only leave a few seconds)
he completely lost me when he blamed the corporation for the lacking of parenting and unfocused kids
He's realistically addressing the fact that employers (not just 'corporations') have to deal with the younger work force -- and their 'condition' -- including addressing it and doing something to help this generation along, and for them to do a better job, develop patience, etc. It's either that, or hire none of 'em.
While I agree employers do have to do a better job helping the young workforce be successful. But it is again yet another thing for lazy millennials to blame there problems on, rather then looking within themselves for the solution. That is the only way to overcome adversity, dig deep within yourself and resolve not to be held down and held back, its up to you to find success not anyone else. This is what millennials need to learn.
When your friend is depressed you don't tell him to fuck off and go away, you help him through his depression. Thats what he mean't.
Ok boomer
Ok boomer
i just ran out of heroin but fortunately i still have a facebook account and theyre basically the same thing so thats cool :/
I get more satisfaction from heroin
I made the mistake of trying to track down this guy's reaserch to see where all of these claims came from IE: "millennials want free food and beer" and "their parents told them that they could have they wanted just because they wanted it". No prizes for guessing, he doesn't do any reaserch, he's not a psychologist or an expert in behavior, he has a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology, quit law school to go.into advertising and quit that to become a motivational speaker. In other words, he produced all of those observations about millennials from the contents of his mind's ass and supplemented that contents with cherry picked bits of studies that he read 'about' (not read), and farted it onto youtube.
Every generation accuses the one after it of being lazy and entitled and they blame what ever "new" thing that generation likes. From Jazz, to rock and roll, to penny arcades, to soda pop to comic books to movies to heavy metal to MTV to video games and now facebook. It's all bullshit.
Ioan Popovici That's ceartainly true but it's true of everyone in every generation. It's his insinuation that this is "unique" and the result of modern technology and permissive parenting, neither of which did he demonstrate, that bothered me. Young people not having a lot of patience and knowing that they feel lost without knowing exactly why, is just part of being a young person.
You need to blame the generation of parents. Parenting!
Yes. with understanding acknowledge the cause. but in the end it's still up to the individual person to rise above that.
Surprise! More glib potshots at a generation full of hard-working, conscientious, egalitarian, idealistic, wonderful people. First off, I understand that the "millennial" birthyears aren't set in stone but "1994 onward" is an absolute swing-and-a-miss; though, omitting those born mid to late 80s might be helpful in preserving some scrap of viability for this guy's BS argument, since those are the millennials who entered the workforce in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Boatloads of data clearly indicate significant losses in lifetime earnings for those people, yet there's a die-hard ensemble of millennial-bashing social commentators who somehow think "participation ribbons" are the *real* culprit - give me a break. It'd be laughable if it weren't so poisonous.
And what is this fabricated trashpile about being raised by parents who always told us we were special? How about we base an argument on, I don't know, like, *facts* or something? Here's one for you: from 1980 to roughly the mid 90s (which is when most people would agree millennials were also born), divorce rates in the US were higher than at any other time in US history, both before and since. Meanwhile, millennials are substantially more likely to remain married beyond the age at which their parents (on average) got divorced, which is a rather inconvenient little bit of reality for peope who want to argue that our attitude of entitlement is spoiling our relationships.
Y'know what I think? I think (American) millennials are the most spat-on and beat-down generation of the last centur not because we deserve it - but because we allow it. If there's one thing I agree with in this guy's fountain of bullshit, it's that we've got no self-esteem. We inherited families dismembered by divorce, college loans distended by out-of-control tuition inflation, paychecks (if we got them at all) devoured by predatory school, home, and automobile loans, and cities ravaged by unprecedented crime and incarceration. We inherited racially segregated communities, misogynistic traditions and institutions, a legacy of neocolonial exploitation, a burning planet and a towering military-industrial complex. And you know what? I think millennials have demonstrably, in some way shape or form, begun tackling and fixing pretty much every part of this inheritance. And as far as I'm concerned the Gen X and Boomer folks who trash talk us are pretty much just war-mongering narcissists who choose to disparage and demean because they are incapable of accepting even a modicum of fundamental accountability.
I must have missed my participation ribbon/trophy/certificate, can't say I ever got one, but if I did you know what I would do? I'd say thanks and proudly hang it on my wall, right between the college degree I busted my ass to pay for and the professional engineering license I busted my ass to earn. Because a lifetime of bullshitters piling criticism on me and my peers has taught me to relish even a momentary compliment, and accepting somebody's congratulations (whatever be the merit) is never beneath me.
Lastly, to all the Gen X'ers and boomers who choose to celebrate progress, who promote mutual respect and constructive criticism and persistent kindness both within and between generations, YOU are the people who have made our country great. Though you might very well be outnumbered by the naysayers and the haters, your voice is never lost in their din. Thank you for everything you've done for us. Peace out y'all.
I like Simon Sinek but I completely disagree. There has always been some basis for arguing that the "younger" generation is not as social, hard working, patient...blah, blah blah.
The Millennials are as solid and no less solid and capable as any other generation. If he believes that Millennials are a result of bad parenting then (1) he clearly believes there is something wrong with Millennials - which he denies toward the end and (2) Why were their parents so bad at their job (which I think is also a silly notion - what proof does he have for this).
There are always people looking to generalize either based on race, gender, income, age...what I have found is that whenever this occurs it is just not valid and is a result of missing what the real issues are.
So what is the issue Simon? Is the issue that business leaders don't know how to manage Millennials? Give me data that supports this generalization? This is silly!
Oh and if Millennials really are more impatient than previous generations then good for them because if you read the news I think a lot of previous generations have been a little too patient with finding ways to do things a lot better.
P.S. I am not a Millennial I am a gen X'er
Video: It's not their fault, they were dealt a bad hand.
Comment's section: STAHP BLAMING MILLENIALS!!!1!!
Guys... actually watch the video.
it was just a condescending way of putting that everyone born between 1994- after is spoiled,entitled,addicted. Honestly the most retarded interview I've seen in a while
@@satan9487 Since you missed the part where he said 1984 not 1994 it makes sense that you badly missed everything else he said, evidenced by your post. Yes, things seem retarded when you don't pay attention.
ffryan He obviously meant 1984!
I'm saying it's not true. He doesn't cite any sources.
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Even this guy puts down millennial's like he is a different kind. Watch it and I swear you will lose some brain cells. This is most of what I deal with and see on a regular basis. Simon doesn't need to cite anything when the kiddos do it themselves.
Instant Gratification what about the baby boomers ?
The are merely self centered, yet do had to work for everything in their younger years.
Their problem is more of quickly not facing any social political opposition due to demographics.
With the effect of being out of touch with reality and giving rise to egalitarian thinking.
This in turn sowed the seeds of destruction in later generations.
I agree with all the comments about the host. But, Simon, constantly adding "right?" at the end of every sentence fragment is annoying, distracting, and presumptive. Are we all supposed to nod? I don't need to express agreement with every sentence fragment... right?
This sounds like George Carlin a decade ago.
Am I the only person who got annoyed at all the people laughing?
Ye it annoyed me also.. I know some of the things and how he said them might of been a BIT funny, but it was just like nervous awkward childish laughing. but everything he spoke was bang on right in my view.
Awwww were your precious millennial feeling hurt?
Elisa T why even bother commenting so pointless 😂
Elisa T Lmao Old people on the Internet
You dont get the jokes? ja
Its easy to forget that the cost of living is increasing. Higher education is becoming more of a standard for good entry level employment. These two factors together create unhappiness in young adults.
It sucks to know that after going through 4 years or more years of college, collecting debt, and living check to check even though you have a worthwhile degree that some people still have the nerve to ask you why you cant wait 30 years to have a couple extra 0s on your paycheck.
People of ALL AGES are having to deal with the same issues of cost of living increases, and higher education requirements. It isn't fun, and doesn't seem fair but we ALL have to find a way to deal with it. Sitting around whining and expecting others to coddle you isn't going to make life any better. I think that is what SOME Millenials expect from everyone around them. Most people work their asses off all their lives and still aren't making the extra 0's on their paycheck. It sucks for all of us.