How to Age Up Together

How to Know What’s Real

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Education, Self-improvement, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In the next 10 years, our society will become more old than young. How do we leverage this time to build stronger intergenerational connections? Eunice Nichols, the co-CEO of CoGenerate, has spent more than two decades bringing older and younger people together to address issues that affect us cross-generationally. She explains how a history of structural policies, some of them great innovations, have contributed to this age-segregated era and about what a future could look like if people from different generations choose to partner together more often. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, you said we were the same generation and we're not.
0:07.6	Technically, that's true.
0:09.9	But I was raised alongside a millennial six years older than me and one four years older than me.
0:16.8	So culturally, I feel like I grew up with a millennial core despite my Gen Z rising.
0:28.4	I'm Natalie Brennan, Gen Z producer at the Atlantic.
0:33.3	And I'm Yasmin Tayag, a millennial staff writer at the Atlantic.
0:38.0	This is How to Age Up.
0:43.8	Well, what do you think your most millennial quality is?
0:48.2	I am very self-absorbed.
0:55.8	I would say an obsession with myself
1:00.1	and always putting myself in the center of everything
1:03.6	and thinking that everything that's going wrong is directed at me.
1:09.0	Like the failing economy and the climate. It's all directed at me.
1:15.9	Yeah, I have that too. I kind of thought it was a Gen Z quality, but maybe that's just
1:22.4	the millennial core in me. Okay, well, what do you think your most Gen Z quality is? I've been thinking a lot about
1:32.1	this. I wear baggy big pants. Okay. I do too. Yeah, that's true, but I think I'm wearing even
1:39.9	backier. Yes, and I'm doing it because I want to look like you.
1:49.6	I don't know. You don't feel that different from like me.
1:52.4	Perhaps I'm just an exceptional millennial.
1:55.9	Correct. And I'm just an exceptional Gen Z.
2:06.5	I mean, maybe we have a lot of overlap because we generally spend most of our time with people within a decade of our own age.
2:06.9	Yeah.
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