“Boomers vs Millennials” with Dr Jean Twenge

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Boomers. Millennials. Gen X. Gen Z. Are you actually in control of your feelings about gender fluidity, social media, streaming television, laptops, jumbo jets and the pill, or have you absorbed the norms of your generation?

Dr Jean Twenge is a psychology professor who's been studying large, national surveys of young people for decades, teasing out how the generations differ. Her books include an analysis of millennials ("Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled―And More Miserable Than Ever Before"), Gen Z ("iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy―and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood―and What That Means for the Rest of Us") and most recently, a study of every single one of us in "Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future".

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0:00.0	Goody, humans. Welcome in the safe space for dangerous ideas. Here's a dangerous idea for you. A lot of what you think you believe about TikTok, about social media, about young people, about depression, about cancel culture, resilience, free range kids, about old people and about how early you should get to
0:22.9	the airport before your flight is a consequence of the generation that you're born into.
0:28.7	Do you feel like you're part of a generation? Have you always felt like the generational definitions
0:33.7	don't quite fit you? Well, today's guest is the world's leading expert on generations,
0:39.1	on the differences between boomers and the silent generation and Gen X and Gen Z and
0:44.7	millennials. And she has all the data to back it up. She's been researching this stuff for 25 plus
0:49.9	years. And we get into all of that and more. She will be appearing at the Festival of Dangerous
0:54.7	Ideas in Sydney in August, where I will also be appearing on stage at one of their
1:00.4	flagship events. It'll be me and Coleman Hughes. I hope you know and love Coleman as much as I do.
1:07.3	He's an incredible thinker. His latest book is The End of Race Politics, Arguments for a Colorblind America.
1:14.6	If you Google a Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Coleman, Zeps, Coleman Hughes, Josh, something like that.
1:19.6	You will get to the ticketing page if you're in Sydney.
1:21.8	Absolutely buy a ticket right now.
1:23.5	Please don't miss it.
1:24.7	We will also be doing a Melbourne event.
1:27.0	So if you're in Melbourne, you don't have to fly to Sydney for it.
1:29.8	The event in Sydney is on August 25th at Carriageworks as part of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
1:35.2	The one in Melbourne will be independent.
1:36.8	We are doing this ourselves.
1:37.9	We are funding it ourselves.
1:39.7	Your assistance in proving to us that these things are viable would be greatly appreciated.
1:44.6	The best way to get pre-release sale, which will be going on sale, within the next week or so,
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