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Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness - Simon Sinek - YouTube
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what's the Millennial question apparently
Millennials as a generation which is a
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group of people who were born
approximately 1984 and after are tough
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to manage and they're accused of being
entitled and narcissistic
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self-interested unfocused lazy but
entitled is the big one and and because
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they confound leadership so much what's
happening is leaders are asking the
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Millennials what do you want and
Millennials are saying we want to work
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in a place with purpose love that we
want to make an impact you know whatever
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that means we want free food and bean
bags and so somebody articulates some
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sort of purpose there's lots of free
food and there's bean bags and yet for
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some reason they're still not happy and
that's because you that they're missing
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this there's a there's a missing piece
what I've learned is that there I can
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break it down into four pieces right
there are four things four
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characteristics one is parenting the
other one is technology
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third is impatience and the fourth is
environment the generation that we call
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the Millennials too many of them grew up
subject to not my words failed parenting
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strategies you know where for example
they were told that they were special
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all the time they were told that they
have anything they want in life just
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because they want it right they were
told some of them got into honors
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classes not because they deserved it but
because their parents complained and
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some of them got a is not because they
earned them but because the teachers
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didn't want to deal with the parents
some kids got participation medals you
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got a medal for coming in last right
which the science we know is pretty
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clear which is it devalues the metal and
the reward for those who actually work
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hard and that actually makes the person
who comes in last feel embarrassed
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because they know they didn't deserve it
so that
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makes me feel worse right so you take
this group of people and they graduate
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school and they get a job and the thrust
into an it into the real world and in an
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instant they find out they're not
special
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their moms can't get them a promotion
that you get nothing for coming in last
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and by the way you can't just have it
because you want it right and in an
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instant their entire self-image is
shattered and so you have an entire
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generation that's growing up with lower
self-esteem than previous generations
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the other problem to compound it is
we're growing up in a facebook Instagram
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world in other words we're good at
putting filters on things we're good at
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showing people that life is amazing even
though I'm depressed
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right and so everybody sounds tough and
everybody sounds like they got it all
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figure it out and the reality is there's
very little toughness and most people
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don't have it figured out and so when
the more senior people say what we do
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they sound like this is what you got at
it and they have no clue so you have an
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entire generation growing up with lower
self-esteem than previous generations
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right through no fault of their own
through no fault of their own right they
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were dealt a bad hand right now let's
add in technology we know that
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engagement with social media and our
cell phones releases a chemical called
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dopamine
that's why when you get a text feels
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good right so you know we've all had it
when you're feeling a little bit down or
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feeling a bit lonely and so you send out
ten texts to ten friends you know high
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high high high high because it feels
good when you get a response right right
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it's why we count the likes it's why we
go back ten times to see if and if it's
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going if our my Instagram is growing
slower I would I do something wrong do
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they not like me anymore right
the trauma for young kids to be
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unfriended right because we know when
you get it you get a hit of dopamine
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which feels good why we like it it's why
we keep going back to it dopamine is the
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exact same chemical that makes us feel
good when we smoke when we drink and
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when we gamble. In other words it's
highly highly addictive, right? we have
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age restrictions on smoking gambling and
alcohol and we have no age restrictions
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on social media and cell phones which is
the equivalent of opening up the liquor
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cabinet and saying to our teenagers hey
by the way this adolescence thing if it
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gets
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but that's basically what's happening
that's basically what's happening right
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that's basically what happened you have
an entire generation that has access to
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an addictive numbing to chemical called
dopamine through social media and
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cellphones as they're going through the
high stress of adolescence why is this
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important
almost every alcoholic discovered
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alcohol when they were teenagers when
we're very very young the only approval
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we need is the approval of our parents
and as we go through adolescence we make
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this transition where we now need the
approval of our peers very frustrating
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for our parents very important for us
that allows us to acculturate outside of
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our immediate families into the broader
tribe right it's a highly highly
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stressful and anxious period of our
lives and we're supposed to learn to
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rely on our friends some people quite by
accident discover alcohol and numbing
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effects of dopamine to help them cope
with the stresses and anxieties of
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adolescence unfortunately that becomes
hardwired in their brains and for the
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rest of their lives when they suffer
significant stress they will not turn to
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a person they will turn to the bottle
social stress financial stress career
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stress that's pretty much the primary
reasons why an alcoholic drinks right
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what's happening is because we're out
allowing unfettered access to these
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dopamine producing devices and media
basically it's becoming hardwired and
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what we're seeing is as they grow older
they to many kids don't know how to form
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deep meaningful relationships their
words not mine they will admit that many
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of their friendships are superficial
they will admit that their friends that
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they don't count on their friends they
don't rely on their friends they have
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fun with their friends but they also
know that their friends will cancel out
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them that something better comes along
deep meaningful relationships are not
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there because they never practice the
skill set and worse they don't have the
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coping mechanisms to deal with stress so
when significant stress starts to show
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up in their lives they're not turning to
a person they're turning to a device
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they're turning to social media they're
turning to these things which offer
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temporary relief we know the science is
clear we know that people who spend more
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time on Facebook so for higher rates of
depression than people who spend less
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time on Facebook write these things
balanced alcohol is not bad too much
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alcohol is bad gambling is fun too much
gambling is dangerous right there's
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nothing wrong with social media and cell
phones it's the imbalance
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right if you're sitting at dinner with
your friends and you're texting somebody
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who's not there that's a problem that's
an addiction if you're sitting in a
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meeting with people you're supposed to
be listening to and speaking and you put
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your phone on the table face up or face
down I don't care that sends the
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subconscious message to the room it
you're not just just not that important
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to me right now right that's what
happens and the fact that you cannot put
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it away it's because you are addicted
right if you wake up and you check your
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phone before you say good morning to
your girlfriend boyfriend or spouse you
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have an addiction and like all addiction
in time it will destroy relationships
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it'll cost time and it will cost money
and it'll make your life worse right so
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you have a generation growing up with
lower self-esteem that doesn't have the
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coping mechanisms to do with stress
stress right now you add in the sense of
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impatience right they've grown up in a
world of instant gratification you want
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to buy something you go on Amazon it
arrives the next day you want to watch a
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movie log on and watch your movie you
don't check movie times you want to
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watch your TV show binge you don't even
have to wait week to week to week right
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I know people who skip seasons just so
they can binge at the end of the season
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right Instagram if occasion you want to
go on a date you don't even have to
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learn how to be like you don't even have
to learn and practice that skill you
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don't have to be the uncomfortable into
which this is yes when you mean knowns
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there's no when you mean no but yes when
you you have to swipe right bang I'm a
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stud right you don't have to learn the
social coping mechanisms right
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everything you want you can have
instantaneously everything you want
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instant gratification except job
satisfaction and strength of
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relationships
there ain't no app for that they are
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slow meandering uncomfortable messy
processes and so I keep meeting these
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wonderful fantastic idealistic
hard-working smart kids they've just
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graduated school they're in their
entry-level job I sit down with them
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when I go how's it going they go I think
I'm going to quit I'm like why they're
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like I'm not making an impact I'm like
you've been here eight months
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it's as if they're standing at the foot
of a mountain and they have this
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abstract concept called impact that they
want to have in the world which is the
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summit what they don't see is the
mountain I don't care if you go up the
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mountain quickly or slowly but there's
still a mountain and so what this young
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generation needs to learn is patience
that some things that really really
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matter like love or job fulfillment joy
love of life self-confidence a skill set
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any of these things all of these things
take time sometimes you can expedite
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pieces of it but the overall journey is
arduous and long and difficult and if
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you don't ask for help and learn that
skill set you will fall off the mountain
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or you will the worst case scenario the
worst case scenario and we're already
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seeing it the worst case scenario is
we're seeing increase in suicide rates
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we're seeing an increase in this
generation we're seeing increase in
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accidental deaths due to drug overdoses
we're seeing more and more kids drop out
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of school or take leaves of absence due
to depression unheard of these are this
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is this is really bad the best case
scenario the bet those are all bad cases
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right the best case scenario is you'll
have an entire population growing up and
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going through life and just never really
finding joy they'll never really find
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deep deep fulfillment in work or in life
they'll just just walk through life in
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little G just it's fine how's your job
it's fine the same as yesterday how's
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your relationship it's fine like that's
that's the best-case scenario which
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leads me to the fourth point which is
environment which is we're taking this
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amazing group of young fantastic kids
were just dealt a bad hand it's no fault
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of their own and we put them in
corporate environments that care more
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about the numbers than they do about the
kids they care more about the short-term
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gains than the long-term life of this
young human being we care more about the
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year than the lifetime right and so we
are putting them in corporate
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environments that aren't helping them
build their confidence that aren't
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helping them learn the skills of
cooperation that aren't helping them
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overcome the challenges of a digital
world and finding more
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balance that isn't helping them overcome
the need to have instant gratification
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and teach them the joys and impact and
the fulfillment you get from working
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hard over on something for a long time
that cannot be done in a month or even
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in a year and so we're thrusting to them
them in corporate environments and the
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worst part about it is they think it's
them they blame themselves they can't
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they think it's them who can't deal and
so it makes it all worse it's not I'm
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here to tell them it's not them it's the
corporations it's the corporate
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environments it's the total lack of good
leadership in our world today that is
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making them feel the way they do they
would dealt a bad hand in it and I hate
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to say but it's the company's
responsibility
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sucks to be you like we have no choice
right this is what we got and I wish
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that society and their parents did a
better job they didn't so we're gonna
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we're getting them in our companies and
we now have to pick up the slack we have
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to work extra hard to figure out the
ways that we build their confidence we
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have to work extra hard to find ways to
teach them social the social skills that
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they're missing out on
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