Everyone, it's a raid. We spend a lot of time talking about voters, older voters,

middle-aged voters, younger voters, who we don't really spend a lot of time talking about

their generations, who they are, and what it is the world means to them.

I hope you'll learn as much as I did from today's episode about how Americans

see the world in CR Country. And now on with the show.

Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan.

Today, I'm joined by Dr. Jean Twanky, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University.

She's the author of more than 180 scientific publications and books,

and her research has been covered in numerous outlets including Time,

The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC News.

Her new book is Generations, The Real Differences Between Gen Z,

Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silence, and what they mean for America's future.

And it's available wherever fine books are sold.

Today, she's coming to us from beautiful San Diego, California. Dr. Twanky,

welcome to the show. Thanks very much.

So I found your book fascinating. I'm a proud Gen Xer, so as you say at the beginning of the book

and you're absolutely right, I spent a lot more time in deep thought about my own cohort

than others, but I thought it was a great exposition about so many of the things that I think we

take for granted, or we believe are stereotypical about the various generations.

But one of the things that you talk about early on and then again throughout the book is the idea

that what an impact technology has had on the generations. You start with the silent generation

right there, you know, they're after the greatest generation my grandparents read, but before the

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