Hey, the bird show.

Mo, I know you discussed this on your podcast recently.

I have never heard this phrase.

Don't even know what it is.

So I'm looking forward to you explaining.

What is hope fatigue and why are young adults experiencing it?

So yeah, I thought this was interesting because I'd actually heard some people on a different podcast having a conversation about it.

And what they saw as what they believed hope fatigue to be and what it actually is was interesting to me.

So I had to do some digging to figure out exactly what hope fatigue is.

And what it is is it refers to being so worried and anxious about issues beyond your control that you begin to feel apathy and pessimism.

And a New York psychotherapist

named Leslie Alderman. So she coined the phrase hope fatigue and it's basically saying that you

today young adults have a lot on their plates. Personal challenges, academic pressures, work

conflicts, relationship issues and just the ongoing work of adulting in general and taking

on the weight of a larger

world today has caused 45% or more of a young adult's to feel hope fatigue where you just,

you don't have anything to look forward to. You don't feel that sense of excitement about much

of anything in the future. And when they went deeper into the conversation, a lot of it really

is due to the constant influx of information that keeps you glued to these like phones and the devastating news that's happening all over the world constantly.

And before you know it, you're really more focused on that than any of the positive things that are going on or the positive things that you may have to look forward to.

I was about to say, because I was thinking in my head, we are inundated with negative messages constantly,

whether that be just the news cycle and the headlines or just commentary on social media.

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