{"id":2172,"date":"2017-08-29T23:27:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T23:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duenos.net\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2018-09-24T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T07:40:13","slug":"some-thoughts-on-when-simon-sinek-talks-about-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/some-thoughts-on-when-simon-sinek-talks-about-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on when Simon Sinek talks about Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reference for my notes below is the Simon Sinek interview that went viral a little while back:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hER0Qp6QJNU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was asked what I thought about this by a friend.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are leaders really asking young people what they want? This isn\u2019t generally the case in the US or Iran, in my impression. Wisdom and power are generally regarded as prerequisites for governance. Employers can more easily hold the youth hostage via their student loan debt and lack of healthcare\u2026 I think he may be talking about a very privileged segment of the general population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so the premise: \u201ckids these days\u201d want purpose and driving social good in their work, and also fun. I can identify with this, it\u2019s what I do in my job and it\u2019s mostly satisfying. I was also born in 1983 so I fail to meet his category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking of which, social scientists are often wary of generations as sole delimiters for population studies. They\u2019re an important socio-analytic category to be sure, but wealth, education, locale and other variables mediate all of the factors he presents (parenting, technology, and environment). The United States is not a mono-culture; and on that note as I\u2019m speaking to a Kurdish Iranian I doubt there\u2019s a single unified country-wide experience of parenting, technology and environment in Iran too \ud83d\ude42 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do agree about the part about \u201cfaking happiness\u201d for social media, though I think some of it might just be managing our identity for a multiplicity of audiences, something I think our parents generally did less of, simply because they were often exposed to far fewer people over their lifetime. Look at me now &#8211; writing to a flabbergastingly talented electrical engineer-artist from across the world. My dad never would have met such a person in the first 50 years of his life. Even now the limit of his social existence scope is just his workplace and family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t the same level of chemical addiction in social media gratification as there is in drugs or alcohol (is the &#8220;science clear&#8221; really? show me the meta-study of randomized controlled trials that establishes this scientific consensus)\u00a0but I think I&#8217;m more interested in the question that follows: how do we better provide social supports for people who are struggling? Can we do it in a way that doesn&#8217;t\u00a0emphasize that they&#8217;re singularly special? \u00a0At what point and in which context do we consistently and adequately teach intentionality in our use of communication and socialization with technology? <strong>More specific to my own life &#8211; how do I politely tell my friends to get off their cell phones during dinner or ask them to be more committed to me as friends?<\/strong> I totally agree about the affliction, but I&#8217;m at odds for ascertaining a tactful solution.<\/p>\n<p>Also, sheesh people should be applying to work at the Fab Lab night and day because we pretty much have instant impact and opportunity but with a concern for long-term development. And yet as an employer I still get frustrated with the lack of commitment, patience and hardwork at times. Yes we get to change the lives of children and make cool shit with 3D printers. We also get to scrub the floor and answer way too much email. I wish I knew how to make my Fab Lab a career track place with healthcare &#8211; but we&#8217;re not even sure the whole thing will exist in two years. But then again I think that sense of stability is a pretty Euro-American privilege-centric one. I also happen to think the notion of\u00a0<em>personal-is-professional<\/em> is something that causes too much of a hit to productivity to be very corporate-friendly. The academic world takes specific steps to be more accommodating and human-oriented, in exchange for more commitment. Then again I&#8217;ve also suffered\u00a0first-hand from what happens when\u00a0people have too much time for\u00a0gossip and not enough focus on\u00a0work.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think? In life\u00a0how do you strike the right balance between mustering patience and being satisfied with what you have, verses seizing opportunities and initiating change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reference for my notes below is the Simon Sinek interview that went viral a little while back: I was asked what I thought about this by a friend. Are leaders really asking young people what they want? This isn\u2019t generally the case in the US or Iran, in my impression. Wisdom and power are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[166,168,238,272,328,338],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflection","tag-gratification","tag-happiness","tag-millennials","tag-phones","tag-simon-sinek","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}