[Music]
would you imagine when I say a senior or
an old person do you see someone like
this or maybe you see someone like that
this is why I see this is my grandmother
she’s in her 70s this is also her she
and her friends have musicians among
themselves they regularly gets together
to play and sing for themselves but also
for other people and during Christmas
time they use a house of one of them in
the center of Prague to play and sing
for anyone that comes by and to serve
hot wine to them as well I learned a lot
from my grandmother both together as
life enjoyment and also things like
playing cards or picking mushrooms
without accidentally killing myself a
few weeks ago she underwent quite a
complicated spine surgery she’s okay now
she’s in a rehabilitation center to heal
completely seeing all the medical
attention that she received and the
incredibly nice nurses that were taking
care of her it it got me thinking that
I’m happy for the first time in my
rather short working career that the
government gets about 40 percent of my
total salary towards causes like
univille universal health care it also
got me thinking how long will this be a
norm will be be able to afford it and
already it will the working population
be large large enough to support causes
and issues like universal health care it
is a fact that the Czech population as
well as many other so-called Western
societies populations are getting older
stagnating in number or even shrinking
in number
Czech people now supposedly prefer being
wealthy to having children and my
generation the so-called millennial
generation is just going to be worse in
this regard because the family appeal is
just not strong enough strong enough for
us anymore the other they blamed young
that they are not making sure the
working population remains large enough
and the younger blamed the order for the
way the industries work under a
leadership to create a different
economic and social
spectrum in which having a family when
you are younger is not as easy anymore
and the economic spectrum is not just
the one thing that they disagree on and
it seems to put these two groups on
different sides political aspect is
another thing it was nicely visible now
after the Czech parliamentary elections
and also in Britain after the brexit
referendum the old do not think that the
young know how the world works while the
young do not think that they all know
how the how the world should be working
and is this something that we as a
society cannot avoid the home because to
me it seems that the only thing that we
are lacking here is the lack of
understanding and it’s really not easy
to reach this understanding not not
often because it’s much easier to make a
generalization about a group of people
to make a quick judgment about who is
behaving how and who is who is different
from us and how and why they are worse
take for instance millennial generation
spoiled lazy impatient so this is often
how we are portrayed and what this
creates is that nobody understands us
that the older generation does not
understand us and they are judging us I
really like simon Sinek stake on this if
you know him you might know why why I
like his particular opinion on this
matter
he explains Millennials and our behavior
in the workplace by by understanding
that we simply grew up in a little bit
different environment this environment
of instant gratification raised by
different parental habits and surrounded
by ever developing technologies which we
naturally just knew how to use because
we grew up with them but what he doesn’t
do is he doesn’t judge either of the two
groups he tries to make them reach an
understanding and tries to make them
work most efficiently in any industry
which in result creates a bit of a
little bit more harmony as in a society
as a whole and it’s new not really easy
to reach this understanding always
especially the original pin technologies
and the walls of open borders made us
really a little bit differently angled
people the ever developing technologies
made us the so called digital natives
and the world of open borders made it
really easy for us or even expected us
to study abroad or live abroad for at
least some some amount of time this in
turn made us more open to the idea of
international cooperation European Union
globalization but also social topics
like the LGBT acceptance me by Klaus
homes and cars and we value experience
more than ownership we are also more
prone to depression and suicides because
the expectations of what we are supposed
to live through what we are supposed to
experience where we are supposed to
travel and what profession we are
supposed to reach before we settle down
is getting increasingly more demanding
very often not realistic in the first
place and we might sometimes feel that
the older generation does not understand
this discrepancy between us and them but
it’s not that they are different people
living in different worlds they are just
in different stages of their lives I
would like to offer an example here when
I was telling my grandmother about this
exciting trip to Bali that I took this
year she immediately asked me how much
money I paid to go there and then based
on my travel habits in 2017 she
calculated how much longer it will take
me before I can get a mortgage she did
math and everything our world just did
not me there but it’s not that she would
be a different type of person from me
she’s just in a different stage of her
life where the safety of having her own
home is very important to her and she
just wants this sort of feeling of
illness for me as well when I’m older
and she’s just afraid that I’m not on
the right track to reach it at school I
was learning who coined which term for
which generation how they were called
and what they were doing
later at work I attended a few workshops
where we were basically going through
the same thing but more in a marketing
way so we were learning which generation
approach which media how would they like
to consume as a media how to talk to
them etc I also attended a few workshops
like this about the millennial
generation and it was very specific
about how what we eat how we talk who we
talked to what we are like what we like
to do what we do not like to do and I
was just sitting there thinking of how
much we like to generalize and how much
we like to label groups of people and
this labeling always creates a gap
between people because when we are
labeled as a group in a way and describe
it means that we are different from
another group which is also described in
a different way and if we say that
someone no matter how old is to just is
too far from us to understand our
situation we have just not tried hard
enough not just from our side but also
from their side
we are not different people because we
live in different worlds but we are we
might seem different because we are at
different stages of our lives and we
have different priorities at our
particular stage of our lives it would
it not be better if the famous when I
was your age sentence was having a
descriptive or informative nature rather
than judgemental one if I ever say when
I was your age as a judgment or as in
you should have it harder I will try to
replace this video immediately I’ve
already used this sentence a few times
towards my younger sister and she’s 11
years younger and I’m in my 20s
imagine me what I’m going to do when I’m
17 experience is what gives anyone older
than anyone else the incentive to
comment how easier the younger
generation has it as if that was even a
problem it’s not our job to make it
harder for those that come after us
we if if the generation of my sister
that that when they grow up if they have
it easier than
I will be like job well done I will be
really happy about that
I really hope that happens I do not
think it will I think they they will
have their own issues that we might not
understand but I really hope it will and
I hope that we will see our similarities
rather than differences hi this one for
instance this is what happens when you
google Millennials already read this is
what happened when I googled Millennials
everyone looks pretty much the same the
pictures are very light everyone has
friends everyone’s smiling everyone is
clothed in a similar manner and everyone
is happy
no one’s depressed right and now we can
take that and we can say this is another
example how they do not understand us
this is how they see us as a group of
people not as individuals and this is
how they think that we have it easy
this is how they thing that we are just
enjoying our lives but look at what
happens when you google baby boomers
it’s the same thing it’s basically the
same thing everyone has friends
nobody’s alone nobody is lonely to me
the only change in the brief was just do
not give them technology because they
are older just give them yoga mats and
bicycles because they enjoy nature more
than younger people keep the technology
for the Millennials when we are shooting
them next week and you know the worry of
the older generation that family is not
important to us might not be even be
real we might not be the best at forming
deep meaningful connections with all of
our taggings wiping left and right and
poking but it doesn’t mean that we are
not trying and that being a good parent
and having successful marriage is not
important to us just means that we might
need a little bit of a help from the
older generation when I’m with my
grandmother I’m never on my phone she
always makes me live through the moment
with her and I would never I would never
take a phone in my hand when I’m around
her she softly teaches me teaches me the
basic human connection and how to live
in a moment with another person so this
is what they can help us
what we can understand from them and get
and be taught from them but I where I do
see the discrepancy between us though is
the economic one and I think that this
is what causes most of the problems my
family bought an apartment here in
Prague about eight years ago now its
value is up by 70% half of this increase
happened in the last two years the
salaries did not keep up with this fact
not at all
it’s going to be increasingly more
demanding to have a family in your 20s
because even getting your own apartment
or your own place is getting much harder
because of the expectations of what you
are supposed to achieve before you
settle down it’s also going to be much
harder if you have children in your 20s
if you have a family in your 20s you
have not lived enough if you wait till
your 30s you have not cared enough it’s
just there’s just no way there’s just no
way to win and I think that the older
generation cannot judge us merrily by to
what we do not to do in our case in this
case especially having having a family
in our twenties but they need to
understand the situation that we are
coming from and on the other hand we
cannot merely say we are a group of
people that’s minute misunderstood we
need to take time to make them
understand to reach an understanding
between between us so maybe just go
visit your old folks if you are still
lucky enough to have them try to tell
them what you think and try to ask them
what they think because ultimately we
are living in a society where respecting
the past is as important as seeing
possibilities for the future and the way
I see it we can either join the
bandwagon of writing articles and blog
posts and funny pictures about how each
generation hates the other generation
how this group of people hate this group
of people or we can try to reach more
situations like this and I personally
would like to do the latter
so maybe we can do something about that
thank you
[Applause]
would you imagine when I say a senior or
an old person do you see someone like
this or maybe you see someone like that
this is why I see this is my grandmother
she’s in her 70s this is also her she
and her friends have musicians among
themselves they regularly gets together
to play and sing for themselves but also
for other people and during Christmas
time they use a house of one of them in
the center of Prague to play and sing
for anyone that comes by and to serve
hot wine to them as well I learned a lot
from my grandmother both together as
life enjoyment and also things like
playing cards or picking mushrooms
without accidentally killing myself a
few weeks ago she underwent quite a
complicated spine surgery she’s okay now
she’s in a rehabilitation center to heal
completely seeing all the medical
attention that she received and the
incredibly nice nurses that were taking
care of her it it got me thinking that
I’m happy for the first time in my
rather short working career that the
government gets about 40 percent of my
total salary towards causes like
univille universal health care it also
got me thinking how long will this be a
norm will be be able to afford it and
already it will the working population
be large large enough to support causes
and issues like universal health care it
is a fact that the Czech population as
well as many other so-called Western
societies populations are getting older
stagnating in number or even shrinking
in number
Czech people now supposedly prefer being
wealthy to having children and my
generation the so-called millennial
generation is just going to be worse in
this regard because the family appeal is
just not strong enough strong enough for
us anymore the other they blamed young
that they are not making sure the
working population remains large enough
and the younger blamed the order for the
way the industries work under a
leadership to create a different
economic and social
spectrum in which having a family when
you are younger is not as easy anymore
and the economic spectrum is not just
the one thing that they disagree on and
it seems to put these two groups on
different sides political aspect is
another thing it was nicely visible now
after the Czech parliamentary elections
and also in Britain after the brexit
referendum the old do not think that the
young know how the world works while the
young do not think that they all know
how the how the world should be working
and is this something that we as a
society cannot avoid the home because to
me it seems that the only thing that we
are lacking here is the lack of
understanding and it’s really not easy
to reach this understanding not not
often because it’s much easier to make a
generalization about a group of people
to make a quick judgment about who is
behaving how and who is who is different
from us and how and why they are worse
take for instance millennial generation
spoiled lazy impatient so this is often
how we are portrayed and what this
creates is that nobody understands us
that the older generation does not
understand us and they are judging us I
really like simon Sinek stake on this if
you know him you might know why why I
like his particular opinion on this
matter
he explains Millennials and our behavior
in the workplace by by understanding
that we simply grew up in a little bit
different environment this environment
of instant gratification raised by
different parental habits and surrounded
by ever developing technologies which we
naturally just knew how to use because
we grew up with them but what he doesn’t
do is he doesn’t judge either of the two
groups he tries to make them reach an
understanding and tries to make them
work most efficiently in any industry
which in result creates a bit of a
little bit more harmony as in a society
as a whole and it’s new not really easy
to reach this understanding always
especially the original pin technologies
and the walls of open borders made us
really a little bit differently angled
people the ever developing technologies
made us the so called digital natives
and the world of open borders made it
really easy for us or even expected us
to study abroad or live abroad for at
least some some amount of time this in
turn made us more open to the idea of
international cooperation European Union
globalization but also social topics
like the LGBT acceptance me by Klaus
homes and cars and we value experience
more than ownership we are also more
prone to depression and suicides because
the expectations of what we are supposed
to live through what we are supposed to
experience where we are supposed to
travel and what profession we are
supposed to reach before we settle down
is getting increasingly more demanding
very often not realistic in the first
place and we might sometimes feel that
the older generation does not understand
this discrepancy between us and them but
it’s not that they are different people
living in different worlds they are just
in different stages of their lives I
would like to offer an example here when
I was telling my grandmother about this
exciting trip to Bali that I took this
year she immediately asked me how much
money I paid to go there and then based
on my travel habits in 2017 she
calculated how much longer it will take
me before I can get a mortgage she did
math and everything our world just did
not me there but it’s not that she would
be a different type of person from me
she’s just in a different stage of her
life where the safety of having her own
home is very important to her and she
just wants this sort of feeling of
illness for me as well when I’m older
and she’s just afraid that I’m not on
the right track to reach it at school I
was learning who coined which term for
which generation how they were called
and what they were doing
later at work I attended a few workshops
where we were basically going through
the same thing but more in a marketing
way so we were learning which generation
approach which media how would they like
to consume as a media how to talk to
them etc I also attended a few workshops
like this about the millennial
generation and it was very specific
about how what we eat how we talk who we
talked to what we are like what we like
to do what we do not like to do and I
was just sitting there thinking of how
much we like to generalize and how much
we like to label groups of people and
this labeling always creates a gap
between people because when we are
labeled as a group in a way and describe
it means that we are different from
another group which is also described in
a different way and if we say that
someone no matter how old is to just is
too far from us to understand our
situation we have just not tried hard
enough not just from our side but also
from their side
we are not different people because we
live in different worlds but we are we
might seem different because we are at
different stages of our lives and we
have different priorities at our
particular stage of our lives it would
it not be better if the famous when I
was your age sentence was having a
descriptive or informative nature rather
than judgemental one if I ever say when
I was your age as a judgment or as in
you should have it harder I will try to
replace this video immediately I’ve
already used this sentence a few times
towards my younger sister and she’s 11
years younger and I’m in my 20s
imagine me what I’m going to do when I’m
17 experience is what gives anyone older
than anyone else the incentive to
comment how easier the younger
generation has it as if that was even a
problem it’s not our job to make it
harder for those that come after us
we if if the generation of my sister
that that when they grow up if they have
it easier than
I will be like job well done I will be
really happy about that
I really hope that happens I do not
think it will I think they they will
have their own issues that we might not
understand but I really hope it will and
I hope that we will see our similarities
rather than differences hi this one for
instance this is what happens when you
google Millennials already read this is
what happened when I googled Millennials
everyone looks pretty much the same the
pictures are very light everyone has
friends everyone’s smiling everyone is
clothed in a similar manner and everyone
is happy
no one’s depressed right and now we can
take that and we can say this is another
example how they do not understand us
this is how they see us as a group of
people not as individuals and this is
how they think that we have it easy
this is how they thing that we are just
enjoying our lives but look at what
happens when you google baby boomers
it’s the same thing it’s basically the
same thing everyone has friends
nobody’s alone nobody is lonely to me
the only change in the brief was just do
not give them technology because they
are older just give them yoga mats and
bicycles because they enjoy nature more
than younger people keep the technology
for the Millennials when we are shooting
them next week and you know the worry of
the older generation that family is not
important to us might not be even be
real we might not be the best at forming
deep meaningful connections with all of
our taggings wiping left and right and
poking but it doesn’t mean that we are
not trying and that being a good parent
and having successful marriage is not
important to us just means that we might
need a little bit of a help from the
older generation when I’m with my
grandmother I’m never on my phone she
always makes me live through the moment
with her and I would never I would never
take a phone in my hand when I’m around
her she softly teaches me teaches me the
basic human connection and how to live
in a moment with another person so this
is what they can help us
what we can understand from them and get
and be taught from them but I where I do
see the discrepancy between us though is
the economic one and I think that this
is what causes most of the problems my
family bought an apartment here in
Prague about eight years ago now its
value is up by 70% half of this increase
happened in the last two years the
salaries did not keep up with this fact
not at all
it’s going to be increasingly more
demanding to have a family in your 20s
because even getting your own apartment
or your own place is getting much harder
because of the expectations of what you
are supposed to achieve before you
settle down it’s also going to be much
harder if you have children in your 20s
if you have a family in your 20s you
have not lived enough if you wait till
your 30s you have not cared enough it’s
just there’s just no way there’s just no
way to win and I think that the older
generation cannot judge us merrily by to
what we do not to do in our case in this
case especially having having a family
in our twenties but they need to
understand the situation that we are
coming from and on the other hand we
cannot merely say we are a group of
people that’s minute misunderstood we
need to take time to make them
understand to reach an understanding
between between us so maybe just go
visit your old folks if you are still
lucky enough to have them try to tell
them what you think and try to ask them
what they think because ultimately we
are living in a society where respecting
the past is as important as seeing
possibilities for the future and the way
I see it we can either join the
bandwagon of writing articles and blog
posts and funny pictures about how each
generation hates the other generation
how this group of people hate this group
of people or we can try to reach more
situations like this and I personally
would like to do the latter
so maybe we can do something about that
thank you
[Applause]
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