Analysis Of The Millennials Dilemma

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The Millennials Dilemma Throughout the years many generations have been deteriorating, beginning with Millennials. Simon Sinek’s main idea argued that there are four main reasons why Millennials are lacking social skills. I agree with his presentation “Millennials and Internet Addiction” on how this generation has been affected. He discusses how Millennials are a smart and unique group of kids but they fail in terms of not even trying to achieve and succeed in the work place. The main influences are caused by failed parenting, technology, low self-esteem, the environment, and lack of patience. However, we are definitely all addicted to something and it affects us in many different ways, but it depends on what we are addicted to.
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Sinek states “Millennials have a lack of impatience” I find this statement to be true. An example would be having a career does not secure you to have the best job. I’ve seen my friends get frustrated because they don’t have the best job position. This is caused because of their lack of patience to work hard over time to get where they want to be. Millennials lack of patience causes them to lose motivation. (Sinek, 2016) This supports my opinion because in order to get ahead you must need to be patient. My personal observation is when I have homework and I have bad grades I discourage myself from wanting to try harder and in this case I just give …show more content…
Sinek states “I can break it down into four pieces”. Parents are failing in how they are raising their children, and technology also plays an important role because we are growing up with internal damages such as low self-esteem in young people and insecurity. Millennials do not have patience for the reason why they want to obtain everything easily without working hard for it. ”. I agree with Sinek, the generation of the millennials are growing with failed strategies and this cause them to be

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