There is a particular look people of a certain age give when the conversation turns to childhood. It is not merely nostalgia. It is a mixture of irritation and quiet pride. Modern psychology is finally catching up to that look and saying out loud what those raised in the 1960s and 1970s have quietly known … Read more
There is a stubborn, slightly uncomfortable observation circulating in psychology circles: people who spent their childhoods in the 1960s and 1970s often display a steadier capacity to sit with annoyance, delay gratification, and absorb small humiliations without immediate meltdown. This is not a nostalgic paean to vinyl or a claim that everything was better then. … Read more
There is a curious steadiness about many people born in the 1960s and 1970s. They do not erupt at the first sign of a hiccup. They do not perform panic as a default mode. The pattern is visible in cafés and train carriages and the comment threads you secretly skim. It is not universal and … Read more
There is a stubborn idea floating around that the children of the 1960s and 1970s were either hardened by scarcity or mollycoddled by freedom. Both stories skip the middle ground where most real learning happens. I want to argue something less tidy and more useful. Childhood in the 60s and 70s produced forms of emotional … Read more
There is a quiet stubbornness to people born in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not theatrical. It is not the loud sabre-rattling of social media performativity. It is a lived preference for being measured by personal standards rather than public applause. You see it in the way they answer a compliment with a half … Read more
There is a quiet, stubborn difference in how people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s handle pressure. It is not merely age. It is a mosaic of schooling, social expectations, trauma thresholds, and the ways communities taught people to survive. This piece is not a lab report. It is an argument with evidence … Read more
There is a particular look in the eyes of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not the weary resignation of those crushed by modern pressures. Nor is it the gleam of frantic hustle. It is a steadier thing. A kind of inherited steadiness that does not always announce itself loudly … Read more
The claim feels like something between family lore and a lab result. My aunt swears she could read by the radio while the rest of the house hollered at each other. A colleague insists their cohort learned how to finish tasks without devices because there simply were no devices. Neuroscience does not grant nostalgic myths … Read more
There is a stubborn, quietly defiant competence in people born in the 1960s and 1970s that you notice when the roof leaks or when a relationship goes sideways or when a boss announces layoffs on a Friday afternoon. They do not always feel less pain. They often just manage the noise better. Psychology helps explain … Read more
There is a conversational shorthand floating around social feeds and dinner tables that older generations were tougher in ways younger people are not. That shorthand is part nostalgia part cultural narrative and part empirical observation. Psychologists say people born in the 1960s and 1970s developed emotional strengths that are rare today and the claim is … Read more