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The Gen Z 'Initiative' Recession · The imuRgency Room

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  Gen. Z is the laziest generation, or
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  at least that's what all of the other older generations are
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  saying about us. We're lazy, we don't want to
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  work, we don't take initiative. Blase, blase, blase.
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  These older generations love to come on the Internet and tell us
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  about ourselves. But is there any merit to what
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  they're saying? Like if everyone is saying the
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  same thing, is there some truth to it?
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  Like just for the sake of conversation, is Gen.
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  Z the laziest generation? Hey guys, it's up to emergency
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  and welcome, welcome back to my channel.
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  And today I'm in a little colored shirt because no one's
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  going to tell me that I did not take the initiative to try and
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  look good today. Got a new haircut, try to dress
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  up. Got a little pussy bow going on
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  right here. I am locked in in trying to take
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  the initiative because today's video, it is about the
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  conversation that's been happening online over whether or
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  not Gen. Z is lazy and or I can just take
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  initiative to do anything for them.
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  And before the pitchforks come out, my friend, let me assure
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  you that I have not abandoned you and I am not succumbing to
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  the stereotypes of our older generation of our older
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  brethren, my Gen. Z comrades.
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  But I do think after taking a look and doing a little bit of
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  research, it is time we have a honest conversation about
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  initiative and whether or not we do have it.
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  And obviously, I'm not talking about Gen.
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  Z being the laziest generation and that we are entitled and
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  undisciplined. That is such common rhetoric
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  that is like skewed at us from like older generations because
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  we've talked at length in other videos about how that just
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  simply is not true. However, when it comes to the
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  initiative piece, I do fear that there may be, and again hold
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  when I say this, there may be some points and our general lack
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  of initiative may be contributing to more aspects of
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  our lives than we care to admit. Now let me explain what I mean
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  here. Gen.
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  Zers, the Gen. Zers that people are talking
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  about will be going into a job interview that's on the second
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  floor of a building. They came in on the first floor
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  of that building. They text the interviewer.
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  Hey, I'm here. Mind you, in the e-mail it said
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  that the interview would be on the second floor of the building
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  and it gave you the room number, but you decided to text the
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  interviewer. Hey, I'm here instead of going
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  to where? It said in the e-mail.
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  There's a number of videos going around right now talking about
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  this article from Fortune magazine published in January of
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  last year. All the reasons why Gen.
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  Z is being fired at alarming rates.
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  Now, I don't want to talk about why this checks out.
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  What I do want to talk about is the number one reason that's
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  been attributed to this, which is a lack of initiative.
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  Now, I hope by the end of watching those two Tik Toks that
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  we do equally feel some frustration here.
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  And unfortunately, this is the kind of behavior that is all too
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  common in our generation. And I've personally experienced
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  this from other young people in my life, whether they be Gen.
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  Z, Gen. Z2, Point O, or Gen.
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  Alpha. And it is kind of frustrating.
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  And from those two examples, as well as witnessing it digitally
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  and in real life, it seems like we can be too passive.
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  It seems that we as a generation come off, it's too passive,
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  lacking common sense and critical thinking and don't
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  really know how to advocate for ourselves.
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  And again, do not jump me. I'm saying this with love.
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  And I'm not saying this on some holier than thou tip because I
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  know a lot of times I come on here and talk about like, oh,
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  people got to critically think media literacy is so down.
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  And that may make it seem like I'm above it.
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  And I have all those things when it comes to common sense, you
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  can ask anyone in my life, that shit ain't super common with me.
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  So again, this isn't me pointing the finger and calling y'all
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  out. This is more of a holistic,
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  let's call each other in and see where we can grow and where the
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  older generations are getting a little off base and taking a
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  little bit too many liberties. So please, let's listen and
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  internalize with an open heart, open mind, open spirit.
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  Yeah. And if whatever reason you're
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  like, what do you mean by common sense?
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  I have to say my favorite example of this is that whole
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  iconic bean soup debacle. We're a creator posted A7 bean
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  soup and they were comments asking like essentially, how do
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  you make a 7 bean soup without beans Because they don't like
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  beans. You know, are you seeing what
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  I'm getting at now? Like baby, if you don't like
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  beans, why are you watching A7 bean soup video?
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  Maybe you're not the target audience.
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  Maybe make some other kind of soup.
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  Like quite literally keep scrolling and find you another
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  one if you don't like it. But like even the fact that
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  someone needs to come online to explain that to the commenter is
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  part of this whole thing. And just be clear, because we
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  will be talking about jobs in the job market and specifically
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  how we're seeing this phenomena in the context of jobs.
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  I am in no way shape or form blaming anyone for not having a
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  job. Like that is not the intention
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  here. That is not how I'm meaning for
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  this to land because we have made too many videos on this
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  channel talking about the current job market and the real
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  impacts and reasonings behind why it is the way it is right
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  now. And that's just not something
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  you're going to see me flip flop on.
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  Like that's just not the vibe. And as we get into, there are
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  external reasons that I think boomers and the like are quick
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  to jump on Gen. Z on for.
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  And while the majority of those I do not agree with at all,
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  there are some things that I feel like we should look inward
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  and reflect on. And the first one of those
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  things that we should reflect on is specifically getting into why
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  our generation seems to need so much guidance and getting into
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  the learned helplessness of it all.
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  It feels like we need so much guidance, and there are a few
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  things that we can attribute this to, but also a few things
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  that we do need to take accountability for.
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  Like, we can to some extent wake up and control our own lives,
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  but clearly there have been external forces outside of our
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  control that certainly haven't helped develop these skills, at
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  least in our time on this earth. Genesee hasn't learned
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  helplessness problem and we're the only ones that can do
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  anything about it. But in order to do something
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  about this problem, we're going to have to realize that we were
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  never helpless in the first place.
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  And I think a combination of these external things and maybe
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  just like the general overwhelm have caused this as a generation
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  to adopt this learned helplessness.
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  And before I say what I'm about saying X, do not blame me
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  because I bring this up in damn near every video.
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  But if we're playing the blame game, we got to blame the big
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  two. Number one being COVID and #2 be
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  in that damn phone. I know I say this in pretty much
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  every one of these videos, but I don't think y'all are hearing
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  me. And I don't think y'all
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  understand how big and pivotal these two things are.
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  And we can't just write them off as like 1 little thing that
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  happened in history or just like 1 invention that has come
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  around. Like these have had lasting
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  impacts that we are still feeling the impacts of.
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  Like why are we asking ChatGPT what we should do today?
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  Like, why are we relinquishing so much control of our own
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  autonomy and our own decisions to AI, to algorithms, to other
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  people, to the general collective instead of
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  interrogating internally what you want to do with your leg?
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  What do you mean? You're asking TikTok?
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  What are we wearing this summer? Like, what are you wearing this
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  summer? Like, ask yourself and figure it
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  out, diva. Like, what are we talking about?
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  And one thing and one explanation, I guess that comes
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  to mind when it comes to this sort of learned helplessness is
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  just the way that we grew up and how information was provided to
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  us. We as Gen.
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  Z or maybe the first generation that from literally popping out
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  the womb could just Google anything.
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  Like think about it. Do we really have to learn
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  anything? Like, did we have to learn the
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  Dewey Decimal system? Like, do you know what that is?
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  Do they still even teach that? Like, what I'm trying to say is
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  that we didn't have to actively seek information for ourselves
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  because we had and have search engines like Google, Bing,
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  etcetera, to essentially pass by us without making us necessarily
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  dig in deeper. And I want to have a big caveat
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  here for, I want to say the older sections of Gen.
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  Z, just because I can remember with my upbringing of like the
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  Internet, there was definitely a drilling to think more
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  critically and trust the Internet and the internet's
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  results less and less coming from older people.
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  But as time went on and older people kind of just like
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  relinquished control of the Internet to younger people, that
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  kind of faded away like Wikipedia used to.
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  We see it as like an untrustworthy source of
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  information. And now who cares?
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  And this whole thing is becoming worse with AI platforms like
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  Claw, Gemini ChatGPT, whatever would have you requiring you to
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  have less and less context and think less and less about what
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  you're searching and what you're trying to find.
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  Because you're going to get an answer right away in a very
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  quick and efficient summary that may or may not include the
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  entire context, which you're not really looking for in the 1st
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  place. And one of these days, we will
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  have fully insighted studies on how COVID truly disrupted
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  generations in different ways. But thinking of Gen.
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  Z and Genopo, this occurred in the formative time for Gen.
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  Alpha, obviously in the child development phase, but for Gen.
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  Z and the formative social phase like high school, college,
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  middle school, where that's the time we were supposed to start
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  figuring out who you are and start forming your own opinions,
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  your own identity, and slowly learn what kind of adult you'll
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  shape up to be. And that can't really happen if
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  you're locked, boxed into your childhood bedroom from ages 12
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  to 21. And of course, this has created
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  a plethora of outcomes and some coming out with induced social
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  anxiety. The practice of asking questions
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  and being a human with follow through in the world didn't
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  really matter at that time. And as we've talked about in
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  many previous videos and in some of the not nicest terms, the
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  most grueling soul sucking hellscape of a job market right
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  now. Like we entered the job force at
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  such a unique and anti employee time.
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  You need to be aggressive and advocate for yourself.
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  But like even when you do so, that still isn't guaranteeing
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  you a job. But we don't have to succumb to
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  this as our ultimate reality. We have the power to change
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  this, we just have to take the initiative to do so.
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  You meet a time where you have to rise to the to the case.
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  You have to do something to save yourself, to change the
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  circumstances and you fold. You think that you cannot do
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  anything to better your circumstances.
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  You rely on other people to come save you and nobody's coming to
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  save you, Pookie. That's what learned helplessness
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  is. You believe that you are
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  helpless when it comes to changing.
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  Your life. The wonderful thing is if we
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  identified the main issues and have an awareness of our own
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  behaviors, then we can act with that in mind and hey, who knows,
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  maybe even switched up a bit. And I do also want to say that
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  we are not the first or last generation to do this.
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  This is not something that's specifically unique to us, nor
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  am I implying that it is. I just think that we are the
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  youngest generation and there are many factors that contribute
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  and shape our behavior. So it just looks a little bit
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  different than previous generations and we might be a
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  little bit more vocal and obvious about it, but this is
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  nothing new. These are just growing pains of
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  becoming adults. And I think that older
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  generations need to give us a brick because, again, we've all
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  gone through it. And yes, for this video, I'm
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  talking to Gen. Z because that's where I
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  resonate. I see it in myself, my peers,
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  and online. But this is not specifically
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  only Gen. Z.
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  And I know that older generations had a form of this,
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  maybe going by a different name or for different reasons.
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  But again, don't act like this is only us.
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  OK, so when we're talking about this whole initiative thing, why
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  does it seem like we as Gen. Z see initiative as extra work
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  and going above and beyond? And how has this been extending
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  into our professional lives? According to Fortune, the
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  numbers are stark. According to a survey, 6 in 10
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  employers and admitted that they had already sacked the Gen.
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  Z workers they had hired fresh out of college, meaning a few
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  months after hiring them. Employers gripe with young
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  people today is their lack of motivation or initiative. 50% of
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  the leaders surveyed cited that as the reason why things didn't
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  work out with their new hire. Bosses also pointed to Gen.
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  Z being unprofessional and organized and having poor
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  communication skills as their top reasons for having to sack
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  grads. And this whole issue really can
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  be twofold in that there is a learning curve in the
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  professional world for new young employees as well as a lot of
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  times companies often do cut corners and do not invest in
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  properly training new employees at times.
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  And there are also scenarios where we can take that
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  accountability. It almost feels like job
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  proficiency is getting confused with going above and beyond.
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  I'm struggling with Genz learned helplessness.
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  I work at a job where all of us have a lot of different roles
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  and every day you know what role you are assigned and it's on
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  your schedule and there's like 3 or 4 different places you can
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  check your schedule, you can print your schedule.
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  There's so many ways to know what your job is.
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  Every day at my job and consistently, I find that a lot
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  of Gen. Z employees, they just don't
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  look or they don't care, or a lot of them are showing up to
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  work and saying what do you want me to do?
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  And then there's the whole acting your wage debate that we
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  so often hear when it comes to the corporate conversation.
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  And with how things are going, it really begs the question,
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  like, how have we taken this a little too far?
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  And my answer to this might be a little nuanced.
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  Like I think the saying in this quote can be useful because this
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  can be helpful in jobs where you couldn't care less about a
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  business. But I think in order to find
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  success, you do still got to at least act, even if it is your
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  wage. Like the whole performance of
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  productivity, it sucks, it's stupid, and I personally hate
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  it. I think it is so dumb, but
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  unfortunately it's one of the things that we just got to learn
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  because at the end of the day, work is transactional.
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  And that's not saying that you should just like excuse
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  everything and just let everything fly by without asking
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  for it, demanding more. I think there still needs to be
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  major reforms to the general working environment and work
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  culture. But at the same time, you are
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  hired to fulfil a service of the job description.
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  So we at least got to do that without being handheld.
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  Like, those personal boundaries still 100% should be there
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  because we have learned from the mistakes of previous generations
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  that, like, no matter how much you work and how much you put
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  into a company, they're still not going to care about you or
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  think twice to lay you off, cut your pay or just generally treat
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  you terribly. But it begs the question whether
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  or not the pendulum has shifted too far to the other direction.
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  And I found this TikTok very interesting because, like, yeah,
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  a lot of Gen. Z couldn't get a job in high
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  school because of lockdown. 50% of Gen.
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  Z did not work in high school. That is a huge difference from
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  any generation before them. It's societal progress.
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  It's amazing, but it means that 50% of this generation coming
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  into the workforce did not work for pay, meaning they didn't
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  learn how to show up. They didn't learn how to work
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  with the boss, they didn't learn how to get feedback.
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  They didn't learn how to progress their career.
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  They didn't learn. And so this is their first time
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  learning. Because of that, many, not all,
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  maybe not you or your friends, but many, have the executive
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  functioning skills of teenagers. But that kind of adds support to
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  what I said earlier with missing out on critical social moments
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  that develop these skills. Like these are the kind of
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  skills that are foundational in learning how to earn your
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  dollar, how to work for someone, how to learn customer service,
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  as many of the jobs that are available to high schoolers are
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  mostly in food and retail. And now we got to talk about
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  Gen. Alpha for a quick second,
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  because I think that Gen. Alpha is at a very unique moment
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  in this whole situation around critical thought initiative and
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  essentially wanting to put in the personal work to get the
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  results that you're looking for. In a study about the critical
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  thinking skills in Generation Alpha in Twenty, 2460% of the
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  students demonstrated an average level of critical thinking, 20%
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  showed a high level, and 20% showed a low level.
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  All the children perform best in tasks related to inductive
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  reasoning and fast evaluation, but struggled with analysis and
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  critical assessment of information.
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  And like, no shade to that article because studies are
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  important, but I feel like teachers have been clocking that
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  tea for a while now, saying that more and more they feel the need
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  to over explain themselves. And while I guess school is the
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  environment to ask questions, relearn things to understand,
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  that's not this. Like that's not what's happening
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  here. This was quite possibly one of
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  the most irritating things when I was a teacher.
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  I I've never seen anything like it.
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  Like I would give students a worksheet, I would explain the
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  worksheet, I would go over examples on the worksheet, I
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  would answer questions about the worksheet and I'd check in on
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  the students like 3 minutes later and I'd walk over to a
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  student and they'd be like, I don't I don't get it.
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  Read. Did you read the directions?
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  No. Did you ask a friend for help?
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  No. Did you ask me for help?
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  No. Are you staring at your phone?
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  Yes. Like just the inability to
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  overcome minor hiccups in one's path was crazy to me.
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  The learned helplessness was like the hand holding was
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  something that I just couldn't do.
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  And I taught high school so I was hoping this would not be the
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  case, but this was something that and drove me nuts.
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  Teachers are having to lead the horse to water, so to speak,
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  multiple times like they're having to wrangle that horse to
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  the same pond and back multiple times in the same day.
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  And it's only getting more noticeable with Gen.
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  Alpha. But it certainly started with
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  Gen. Z because while we're the first
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  generation that grew up with technology, Gen.
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  Alpha is going to be the first generation that grew up with AI.
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  And as we know from that MIT study on AI, ChatGPT users had
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  the lowest rate engagement and consistently underperformed at
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  neuro linguistic and behavioral levels, Basically consistent AI
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  I use eroding critical thinking skills.
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  And I can only imagine that this lack of initiative and
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  self-sufficiency is only going to worsen with the next
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  generation if we're already seeing this in this one.
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  Like again, we already live in a world where information is just
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  thrown at us and we're trained and expected to just take it at
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  face value. Like we see it with the way that
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  our media has evolved. We see it with the way that our
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  news has evolved, the way that we consume news.
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  Oftentimes, news outlets just giving out inflammatory or
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  eye-catching headlines and then providing like a three sentence
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  summary of like what they consider to be the main points
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  that are important that almost always leave without the
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  important context to explain the story and reasoning behind the
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  headline. But that was a quick aside.
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  Getting back to the studies of it all, while the MIT studies
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  serve by people from 18 to 39, which thus including
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  millennials, it's important to consider who's using it most.
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  And I do think scrutiny falls on younger people because they are
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  entering entry level positions or at least different schools.
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  So they're more likely to be observed by teachers, managers,
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  and bosses. But so far in this conversation,
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  we've talked a lot about how this lack of initiative has been
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  impacting US career wise, professionally and tangential in
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  schools. But I think that this general
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  lack of initiative does trickle down into other facets of life.
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  Like, let's ask ourselves, does the loss of critical thinking
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  and self advocacy extend the past, the academic and
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  professional? Yeah.
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  And this is purely observational.
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  But I do think that this plays out in our social scenarios.
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  Again, not every situation is the same.
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  And this isn't me blaming you for certain aspects of your life
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  maybe not working out. But I do think this is seen in
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  our friendships and our romantic relationships at the moment.
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  Because think about it, some of the main gripes and problems
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  that we see talked about on social media when it comes to
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  friendship, community and relationships is that no one
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  wants to put in the work and that people are non committal,
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  non commutative, not emotionally regulated.
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  And I think some of that can be attributed to the lack of
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  initiative that we see from us. And again, when it comes to the
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  friendships and the romantic aspect, we do have other videos
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  going more in depth in that. But when it comes to things like
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  building community and these struggles that people express
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  with that, with that being like the lack of people following up
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  or the general maintenance that's required or personal
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  relationships, like sending those follow up texts, going to
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  events that you don't necessarily 100% feel like going
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  to, or just even being forward or proactive with establishing,
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  making and maintaining plans. Like when you want to make
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  plans, establish a date, time, place and location.
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  Babes. Like why does it feel like when
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  you want to hang out with people, you've got to hold your
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  hand through the whole process to jump through so many hoops
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  just to meet with people you already know you like in real
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  life. And don't even get me started on
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  dating. Like the lack of initiative
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  that's taken in dating from both sides is kind of crazy.
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  Like, what do you mean? What do you bring to the table?
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  What do you mean you want a hunch on me?
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  Like table dinner first, but you won't even plan that.
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  And I do almost believe that we have this irrational fear is
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  like coming across as annoying or too clingy or like caring too
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  much or like being too shalant. If you ask follow up questions
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  are just too eager to plan things out right away.
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  Like I always think of that one meaning of like Squidward in
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  like the box when he's like homeless and people are like,
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  this is what it feels like to ask your friends to hang out,
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  which real? But I do also think that we need
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  to detach from that idea or at least reframe it and see it as
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  taking initiative. Like, if you want to go see that
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  movie with friends, you better ask them.
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  At least hand them down a little bit.
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  Like, it's OK to want things. And I feel like when it comes to
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  the social side of this all, we as a generation have idolized
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  the sense of detachment in the sense of nonchalance, the sense
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  of numbness that comes with social interaction, where work
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  is like, oh, we don't need to chase anyone or chase any social
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  interaction. Like, if it's meant for us,
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  it'll come for us. And in some cases that is true.
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  And there are pieces of that that are true.
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  But I think we also do need to acknowledge that we need to put
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  in work to have things arrive to us.
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  Like not chasing does not mean not putting an effort because
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  the chase is to pursue something without reciprocation almost
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  indefinitely. What I'm asking is to put in a
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  little bit of that elbow grease, to put in a little bit of that
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  effort to get the outcomes and efficiently attract the outcomes
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  that you're trying to perceived. And I really don't want this
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  come across as like a dig towards us as Gen.
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  Z, and I don't want to give older generations any more
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  ammunition to rag on us. But I do think there is some
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  merit in what is being said. I also do think that older
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  generations are doing too much with it and are refusing to also
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  acknowledge their participation and involvement in the
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  cultivation and contribution of this behavior.
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  Like again, there are reasons why we're like this and y'all
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  are also like this too. It just presents a little
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  differently per generation. But trust and believe you will
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  be dealt with.