Exactly Where Do You Draw the Line Between Baby Boomers and Genx?

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Genx, millennials and gense are the fivish categories now. They don't have really clear lines between them. One year can be in one categorization, the way some people look at it, a be another year. And anyone around the boundaries of the generation is going to share character its more characteristics with people in each each one that they're close to than people in the middle of them. It's much because of so much strong theory behind it. As long as we don't get obsessed by the precision of it, its and broad strokes er, and we shouldn't be trying to overleap define them.

Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researcher Bobby Duffy who has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth, he argues that our generational identities are not fixed but fluid, reforming throughout our lives. Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren’t as sharp as we think.