There is a stubborn piece of conventional wisdom that people born in the 60s and 70s shrug at pressure differently. Call it old school calm, call it lived experience, call it generational mythmaking. This piece is an attempt to pin down why that impression exists and to push a few uncomfortable counterpoints into the light. … Read more
There is a particular tone to conversations with people born in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not grandstanding. It is a practical kind of steadiness born from patchy safety nets and fewer instant fixes. Psychologists are noticing patterns in emotional habits that feel rarer in younger cohorts. This piece argues those patterns are not … Read more
There is a conversation most of us pretend is private. It happens in kitchens over tea, at dinner tables when the telly is on low, and sometimes in the pauses of our own heads. It is a conversation about the people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s and how modern psychology is finally … Read more
There is something stubbornly useful about the idea that an era can train a mind. Mention the 1960s and 1970s and people imagine vinyl records and faded photographs. I want to suggest a different image. Think instead of a slow living room where waiting was ordinary and solutions were invented because there was no instant … Read more
There is a particular calm that slips out of some people who were children in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not theatrical stoicism or a refusal to feel. It is quieter than that. It looks like an ability to hold small trouble at arm’s length until it either sorts itself or reveals a fix. … Read more
There is something stubborn about those who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. Not the fashion. Not the cars. Something quieter and more portable that shows up in meetings and kitchens and in the way people stop themselves from saying the worst thing in an argument. Call it temperament. Call it training. Call it … Read more
There is a quiet stubbornness to those born in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not showy. It is not Instagram ready. It is the small stubbornness of people who learned to measure worth without an app telling them so every hour. Psychology offers several overlapping explanations for this pattern and none of them is … Read more
People born and raised in the 1960s and 1970s often seem to handle pressure in a way that puzzles younger coworkers and family members. This is not mere nostalgia or generational boasting. It is a blend of developmental biology social structures and life stage pressures that left distinct traces on how those brains weigh risk … Read more
There is a brittle pride that older people sometimes wear like an overcoat in chilly weather. It is not performative toughness. It is a quiet ledger of lived knocks and small recoveries. People born in the 1960s and 1970s carry that ledger. Psychologists now describe patterns in their stories that line up with what the … Read more
There is a stubborn myth that people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s had innate grit and laser focus. That is incomplete and mildly romantic. Neuroscience, however, gives us a way to take that romantic feeling and translate it into mechanisms. This piece argues that the environment of a pre-digital childhood repeatedly exercised … Read more