what’s up guys thank you for being here
means a lot this is uh this is an
important event and this is an important
talk it’s one um that I’ve been doing
some research into for about a year and
about a year ago I was in Honolulu
Hawaii doing doing pretty well I was
happy with where things were at and I
looked around and saw a lot of my
friends just starting their careers you
know real people Millennials and you
know they weren’t they weren’t so happy
with where they were at the trajectory
that they were on so that’s where this
is coming from and happy to be sharing
it with you all today
so um apparently Millennials are unhappy
at work it’s what I came to found out
find out and that’s problematic sure but
throughout my research what I found is
that it’s a much deeper seeded and
deeper rooted issue than Millennials
being unhappy and it’s problematic that
we’re not addressing it right now
because if we don’t it’s going to be an
issue that’s a lot worse than
Millennials just being unhappy in their
work the issue that I’m talking about is
the generational divide that we’re
dealing with right now between boomers
Gen X Millennials there’s a lot of
antagonism going on a lot of
the unfortunate truth is that if this
continues we’re going to not be properly
equipping the future leaders of our
nation of our world I mean this is like
a real real thing because here’s here’s
what’s happening right now here’s I’m
going to kind of give a State of the
Union with the generations okay so you
have Millennials and Millennials are now
looking at boomers they’re looking at
Gen Xers these people are their managers
and they see what they’re doing is
outdated you know it’s just outdated and
hey some okay in fairness sometimes what
you guys doing are doing is outdated
right when there’s innovation you guys
but more often than not and I’m getting
real with my generation here right more
often than not Millennials it’s coming
from a place of ego and it’s coming from
a self-defense mechanism kind of place
right because what’s happening is
Millennials you know they’ve been being
called narcissists and and entitled and
you know there was the book generation
me by the way like I love gene twins
great great author but the title and how
the how the press and how the media
intern use that and leverage that and
manipulated that to make Millennials out
like this this awful generation I mean
that is not cool and so Millennials are
coming from that place they’ve been hey
like this is who you are right you’re a
bunch of narcissistic entitled brats and
hey guys if you’re going to call us a
narcissistic entitled brats you’re the
ones who raised us so I mean like let’s
just get real thing right so we have
that going on and and in fairness
Millennials need to take accountability
and just realize like hey regardless of
that like we’re adults at this point and
we need to act like adults and okay if
we are being labeled that and just prove
them wrong you know just just do what is
necessary in order to succeed in order
to put yourself
in a good position to be a leader in the
future in order to put the people around
you in a good place right just do that
you know go in you have a lot to learn I
have a lot to learn heck I need to learn
about the stock market I need to learn
about market trends I want to be an
entrepreneur I want to be a great
entrepreneur that’s what I want and then
and I’m so far away from that right now
I have a lot of learning to do in order
to get to that place
I need Mentors I need boomer and Gen X
Mentors and you know even people who are
older than that who have been there and
who have done it and who can give me
perspective in context and our
generation needs that and we need to
realize that and we need to come with
humility and say hey I have a lot to
learn teach me come and teach me please
teach me I’ll put in the work I’ll
produce results for you teach me because
I need to because I’m a future leader
I’m one of the people who is going to
take initiative that’s what we need we
need those people right now and on the
other side of the coin Gen X and boomers
it’s it’s it’s time and look like I’m
thrown out like Gen X and boomers these
are like big terms like there are a lot
of nuances within generations and that’s
the thing I’m it’s just like I only have
ten minutes here so I have to be like
super concise with it so um Gen X and
boomers super generic it’s not everyone
um like stop doing the whole
narcissistic entitled stuff I would have
used another word but I’m not going to
um because it’s not being productive
what it’s doing is alienating the
largest generation in US history far and
away not even close and like it or not
these are the people that are going to
be running our country politically
socially economically every which way
when you’re retired
when your body’s starting to deteriorate
because it happens to all of us it’s
when you’re playing golf and you’re
having a good time these are these are
the people who are going to be running
everything and it’s in your best
interest as well to look out for us for
our future because that’s your future
we’re living in the most competitive
global landscape in the history of the
world
not even close I mean the ease of access
to information at this point and
transportation and everything we need to
get things right here right and and and
generations are I think that the
foundation for America to be great and I
didn’t vote for Donald Trump that’s not
and I’m not going to get political but
I’m not going there I just want to be
clear that um is and and I think that
President Trump can be a can do a great
job as well I don’t want to alienate I
go I’m open-minded the bottom line is
this if we want to make our country
great
we need be united man we need to be on
the same page we need to be going
towards an inspired common vision and
and that’s tough when you have so much
divided I mean we have racial tension we
have this whole thing going on with the
generations we have yet you know
socio-economic disparities and clashing
political beliefs or political parties I
mean how polarize it like what how do we
get to a common place like what the heck
this is crazy
well here’s how it’s super simple it’s
I think that each American can get
behind the idea that we want to make
America as great as it can be and what
exactly that looks like I don’t know but
we can start there and then we can start
an open dialogue and conversation about
what that might look like and and not
one where you’re saying oh I’m right
you’re wrong get out of here it’s one
where you’re saying hey this is this is
what what seems to make sense and it yet
you know and hey step what do you think
and trying to find someone else not know
– hey Mike what do you think you know
and and and being open to those
different perspectives and not having
such a huge ego that you have to be
right every single because generations
individuals no one is ever right all the
time I’m wrong every single day like 20
times I’m not even going to get into
like what happened how am i God
yesterday like that was made some made
some mistakes but and and if you do make
mistakes and just make them right
you know and I think that it’s time that
we start to go in that direction and
it’s time for us to get on the same page
as generations and you know boomers Gen
Xers mentor me mentor us mentor our
generation because we need you and
Millennials be open minded to that and
if we can do that man there’s nothing
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