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The Real Differences Between the Generations || Jean Twenge

The Psychology Podcast

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The Evolution of Narcissism

I don't disagree with the idea that Gen Z has taken that next level, but I think there's a lot of millennial participation in some of those things. In the last five years or so, when there's been conflicts around free speech or political things in the workplace, it's often been millennials and Gen Z banding together versus the Gen X and boomer managers or bosses. My reading of the situation is that Generation X is kind of like the self esteem movement generation,. It's like, like self esteem is the gateway drug to narcissism. And then I feel like it was a gateway drug to the millennials, like just up to 2008, a sort of full blown, not just

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