January 2012
5 posts
What next? JWT predicts trends for 2012
JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2012
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Generation Distraction: Drowning by their own...
Wow, remind me never to take drugs – it’s only day 9 of my month-long Facebook ‘lent’ and time has never passed so slowly.
I gave up Facebook in January for two interrelated reasons: 1. I was using it as a distraction; 2. it had become a tool not for giving, but for taking – I desperately sought approval to compensate for my insecurities, particularly at work.
Happiness, of course, comes from...
A Gen Y Living in a Gen X World
Me - feeling a little out of place.
Have you ever been on holiday and realised just how foreign you are?
At home, everyone else sees the world like you do; it is an unquestioned reality. Immersed in another culture you begin to question these norms, perhaps even your own identity. It can be stressful!
So imagine what it is like to be a Generation Y coming into a Generation X company. I’d spent...
September 2010
3 posts
No Plan B: The Mobile Phone and Gen Y’s Lack of...
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I was rushing to an appointment in Central London and had a jolt of worry on the Tube, as my phone’s battery had died so I wouldn’t be able to keep track of the time. Exiting the tube, I couldn’t remember the exact location of my appointment; I’d looked it up with my Google Maps app, but of course my phone was dead, so I couldn’t retrieve my previous search. I had neither written...
I Can’t Do It: Gen Y’s tendency to panic
You know that metaphor of the seemingly graceful swan paddling like mad underneath, to describe a very busy (or panicking) person, but who looks calm and composed? Yeah, that’s not me. When I panic, I skip the ‘remain calm and composed’ part of my brain and jump right into PANIC. And in work this isn’t the best idea. Panic causes you to make mistakes, lose control over your tone and to display...
Boomer-Bashing and Kubler-Ross: Why Gen Y is...
When people are suffering, some will seek to regain a sense of control by blaming others for their misfortunes. The French blamed the monarchy; the Spanish Catholics blamed the non-Catholics; Gen X blamed the corporations; Gen Y blames the Boomers.
Indeed, according to Madeleine Bunting from the Guardian, Boomers enjoyed free school meals, free education, relatively uninterrupted long-term...
July 2010
4 posts
“Men resemble the times more than they do their fathers”
– Arab Proverb
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Kids: over-nurtured, under-creative?
(Image by Markus Nielsen)
As a Generation Y, I’m actually quite surprised at the lack of creativity amongst my peers. You could argue that, hey, we’re under 30, with many of us just leaving university; what could we have possibly achieved as yet?
Let’s look at the other generations, shall we? Einstein came up with his theory of relativity when he was 26; Darwin had developed his theory of...