{"id":1909,"date":"2019-01-18T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2019-06-01T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T11:48:55","slug":"our-understanding-of-millennials-seem-to-be-out-of-whack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/our-understanding-of-millennials-seem-to-be-out-of-whack\/","title":{"rendered":"Our understanding of millennials * seem to be out of whack."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am listening to this fascinating book &#8211;  Inventing Ourselves, The secret life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah &#8211; Jayne Blakemore.\n<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6zVS8HIPUng?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider this : \u201cThe Children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.\u201d  Or this : \u201c\u2026they are passionate, irascible, \u2026most devoted to their friends; \u2026lacking in sexual self-restraint, fickle in their desires, passionate and impulsive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds familiar? No, this is not from Simon Sinek\u2019s much watched 2016 interview on InsideQuest, although this is how we typically sum up the millennials, the next generation. The youth. Well, the first quote is from Socrates (469-399 BC), the second from Aristotle, a hundred years or so later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our limited understanding of the adolescent, (18-25 years), fuels our socially accepted behavior of mocking them simply because they behave differently.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time to rethink. Specially if you have an adolescent or a millennial in your home \/ work zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>*demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years for Millennials ( Source : Wikipedia )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am listening to this fascinating book &#8211; Inventing Ourselves, The secret life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah &#8211; Jayne Blakemore.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/our-understanding-of-millennials-seem-to-be-out-of-whack\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","tag-alwayslearning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-uN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}