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
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