MARIA HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT SIMON SINEK'S VIDEO ON MILLENNIALS

Who are the Millennials?

Millennials are people who were born from 1984 on, so I am a millennial and since I’m a part of them I’m going to refer to millennials using we.

So basically we are accused of being narcissistic, unfocused, self-interested, tough to manage, lazy and entitled. The last one means that we claim something without even working to get it.

All those adjectives describes only a part of us because we aren’t all equal. Maybe the majority of millennials recognize themselves in those definitions but it’s wrong to say that we are all like that, it’s not good to generalize.

Simon Sinek on Millennials

Simon Sinek, an expert in this sector, says that we are narcissistic or well, the majority of us is. I don’t think so because especially in youth there are a lot of people who don’t have self-esteem and self-confidence, the just don’t like themselves. They don’t like their body image because of the society. People have “established” some standards, beauty standards are the one who cause unease among teenagers. These standards have ruined teens because if they don’t see themselves into those “beauty icons” they don’t feel part of the group.

Unfortunately, who is different (or who we think is different) is no longer accepted by the society. We say the world is beautiful for its diversity but if we see something which is out of those standards, out of what we consider “normal” we just judge it.

And all this loss of self-esteem is mainly caused by technology.

We live in a world with a filter, what we share online is not real life.

Just think about social media. We decide what to share on Instagram. We only share the happy bits of our day, we only publish the pictures where we have a nice face, but we’d never post a picture of us crying.

Simon Sinek

It’s all about appearance. Who we are online is more important than who we are in real life and the most important thing is to satisfy those standards of beauty. All of this causes unhappiness among teenagers.

Simon Sinek also lists four main factors that cause unhappiness to the millennials: parenting, environment, technology and impatience; but I’d add another one which is related to environment: society. It is destroying us teens with all those false stereotypes that don’t represent every single one.

Lastly I’d like to say my opinion on all of that: I agree with Sinek, I think that in what he says there’s the truth of millennials: if we are not satisfied with the environment, family or friends it’s not (totally) out fault but the majority of our problems come from those points that Sinek listed.

We should stand up and fight against those stereotypes about us.

Here's the video we used in our lessons. Simon Sinek on Millennials. 

Maria D.