With rising rates of depression, anxiety, and at worst, suicide, young people seem to

be struggling with stress and then COVID hit and made things worse.

I want to understand how we can do better to help our youngest generation learn to cope

with stress.

So I talk to Angela Duckworth, the author of Grit, a psychologist from UPEN, she understands

a thing or two about how we raise resilient kids.

This is a bit of optimism.

Angela, I make this grand assertion and I would love to get your reaction to it.

Which is the younger generations of today, not everyone, but on balance, seem to lack

the skills required for coping with stress later in life and that is manifesting as they

get older in the obvious higher rates of depression and anxiety in the worst cases, suicide,

but also we see it in the workplace where there may be quitting jobs very quickly or unable

to express stress, healthily from work or in relationships, etc.

I think I've actually watched you hold forth on the subject of millennials.

So this is the generational argument.

You're not just saying that young people in general are not growing up to have some kind

of grit in the face of adversity, you are saying that young people these days.

These days.

I think some of my thoughts as to where the skills that they're coming from and then

you can debate it with me.

So for example, there's the obvious one which is over access to social media and cell

phones which release dopamine and the addiction looks very much like gambling.

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