Reflection: Gen Y by Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek defines Millenials as a generation that are entitled, self-interested and lazy

These people do not know how to have meaningful relationships and they do not have the coping mechnisms to deal with stress like other generations.

People are addicted to social media as they gain dopamine, that makes them feel happy, whenever they gain a like on picture and this is an addiction.

This is due to them having low-self esteem and no patience as most of their interactions are online and any information they want are at the tip of their fingers.

They need to learn to gain joy from working hard and have better relationships. This can be difficult do to their lack of social skills.

Organizations nowadays are also to focused on gaining profits rather than taking care of their employees

4 characteristics that causes Millennials are not happy even though that had everything:

Current generation have less interaction with each other as they just look on their cell phones whenever they are.

For example, they watch or texting on the phone while having meeting with friends.

Another example is they only texting before the meeting without interact with others.

This will cause they only have weak relationship with other as they did not interact much.

There are a lot of kids did not know how to form a deep and meaningful relationships as they did not practice the skillset.

The lack of deep and meaningful relationships could cause one not to rely on their friends even though they had fun with their friends.

So, when the stress began to come out in their life, they would not rely on their friends even though they do not have coping strategies to deal with the stress.

Instead of that, they will rely on the device or the social media.

Parenting – They grew up in a failed parenting strategies in which their parents constantly complimented them, making them feel good about themselves and making them feel unique in life, causing them to be dissatisfied when they entered the real world.

Technology – Nowadays, everyone is into social media and mobile phones which can release a chemical called dopamine, whereby when we get a text messages or a notification, they will feel good about it which makes them so addicted to it nowadays. Because of this chemical called dopamine, it will cause them to be so addicted to it. For instances, whenever something goes wrong without likes in Instagram, we will ask ourself like did we do something wrong or etc.

Impatience – Generations need to learn to be patient of something that really matter the most such as love or job fulfilment or self-confidence. These things take time but some people like to rush about it and cause them to be so impatient and stressing themselves which causes the suicide rates increases.

Environment – Due to the environments that we are in which is the cooperate environment, we are mostly to care about the unimportant things such as we care more about the year than the lifetime. This environment does not help building our confidences, does not teach them the joys and impact of fulfilment we get from working hard.

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