There is a particular stubbornness that shows up in people born in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not a quaint trait or a nostalgia prop. It is a pattern visible in careers that stretch decades long and in hobbies that survive moves houses and marriages. I will argue that this generation is better at … Read more
There is a small, intangible muscle that people born in the 1960s and 1970s have been quietly using their whole lives. It is not on any fitness tracker. You cannot buy an app to train it. It is the knack of turning scarcity into a method and inconvenience into a tool. This article is an … Read more
People raised in the 60s and 70s carry more than fashions and vinyl records. Modern psychology is starting to say aloud what families and therapists have long suspected: that those formative decades left durable psychological fingerprints. This is not praise or condemnation. It is an acknowledgement that major cultural revolutions produce predictable patterns of coping, … Read more
Psychologists link 1960s 1970s childhoods to stronger frustration tolerance and the phrase keeps surfacing in conversations between parents, teachers and anyone who remembers waiting for film photos. The claim sounds simple enough. People who grew up in a slower analogue world learned to wait and in the process built a kind of emotional muscle that … Read more
There is something oddly convincing about the way a person born in the late 1960s or early 1970s can receive bad news and then go and make a cup of tea as if the kettle itself will sort out fate. This is not a superstition. It is habit. It is practice. It is a private … Read more
There is something quietly stubborn about a generation taught to queue, to make do, and to wait a turn. That generation learned emotional regulation not from glossy parenting manuals but from everyday constraint and odd kinds of freedom. This piece is not a nostalgic postcard. It is an attempt to examine how ordinary childhoods in … Read more
There is a peculiar steadiness you notice when you spend time with people born in the 1960s and 1970s. They will not rush to like your selfie. They will not seek applause for the small domestic victories. They tend to keep their approval and their doubts closer to the chest. This is not merely nostalgia … Read more
There is an odd, quietly stubborn truth beneath the generational chatter: brains shaped in the 60s and 70s do not process pressure the same way many younger people do. This is not sentimental nostalgia or a neat headline about resilience. It is a braided set of life histories science can measure and stories you can … Read more
There is a phrase people toss around at dinner parties and in think pieces that sounds neat and tidy the way taxonomies do. People born in the 1960s and 1970s learned resilience before it had a name. It carries a smell of truth and a flicker of nostalgia and it is the sort of statement … Read more
There is a stubborn claim circling the dinner table and the school gate that people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s can focus better. It sounds like nostalgia masking a personality trait. It is also worth listening to because modern neuroscience offers plausible mechanisms that make more than a sentimental argument. This piece … Read more