Embrace Humility & Avoid Entitlement in Your Life | Simon Sinek EP 426

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12Obviously, this isn't the case for everyone in the younger generation. There is a conversation happening about the younger generation where there is an entitlement or demand energy towards, okay, this is my first year in this job, you know, out of college, two years out. I don't have all the skills or the experience or the results to show that I'm capable of getting this. But I demand and want all of these things that the older generation wasn't able to do. Raises within the first month. More unlimited time off. So there's multiple factors, of course. Parents is one of them. The parenting philosophy is of the generation.

0:52That was a big part of it. When you and I got in trouble at school, our parents said, what did you do now? if a lot of people get in trouble at school now, their parents say, what's wrong with your teacher? Right. I got suspended. Right. I was like punished for weeks. Right. You know, again, sometimes it is the school and the teacher, but there's bad kids too. You know, kids do stupid things. Sure, sure. Social media is part of it because we're constantly comparing. My sister had somebody who worked for her back in a previous job and he walked into her office and said, can you give me a promotion?

1:23And my sister's like, you know, we worked on our own. Right. And he's like, well, hold on. No, no, no. You don't have to give me the additional responsibility and I don't even need a salary raise. I just need the new title so I can put it on LinkedIn so my friends can see. Holy cow. After what? Like a few months of working there? Whatever it was. But it was really about the display. The display. So it became one of those metrics like followers or likes, which is how many promotions have you had on LinkedIn? It's a false sense of accomplishment though. And it's really funny because there's a corollary here, which is we know that when there is conspicuous displays of wealth, so name brands, when you wear your little gooch or you get your Chanel bag, there's a reason they put the logos on the outside, right?

2:06It's because we like that everybody knows, right? and there's data on this that when you wear your fancy stuff and you put it on and it makes you feel you actually get bursts of serotonin because it makes you feel proud and like you're, you know, your higher status in the community and all of that. That's what conspicuous displays of wealth too. We also know that when you wear a fake, everybody may think that you got that Chanel bag, but you actually get no serotonin. So if you have a fake, you know, you actually don't get the feeling, right? Because you didn't earn it. Because it's not real. It's not the real thing.

2:41So it seems to make sense that when you have a fake promotion for the title to show your friends, that though your friends may be impressed because they're looking at the logo, that you actually know that it's fake, so you actually don't get a feeling of self-confidence, and I think that this is good, and in other words, there's no growth that comes from it. In fact, it might do the opposite. It might make you insecure. We know this from kids who get medals who come in last, right? Which is great. You gave them a medal. They know they didn't deserve it. It actually makes them not feel good. Interesting.

3:11Because they didn't deserve it. They know that. So parenting is part of it. Social media is part of it. But I think the other part of it, which is not considered by older generations, my business partner talks about this all the time, which is when I entered the work field, when you entered the work field, we were legit. When we came out of college, we were legit idiots. Right? We had no clue. We thought we knew. No skill set whatsoever. No discernible value whatsoever. You know, we all started making photocopies. Right. And we had to look up to the people we worked for because they were going to teach us everything that we needed to know.

3:52And we learned a skill set from working and from the people who we worked for. Right? That was how it worked. Yeah. You have a young generation now that's graduating high school and college that enters the workforce with a skill set. And sometimes it's a skill set that the older generation doesn't have. They understand personal branding. They understand social media. They understand how computers work. They can game the algorithms better than anybody. Look at Mr. Beast. He's what, 22, 23? Billions of views, right? His numbers are better than every top movie ever. Yeah. Right? I went to an event once where there were all these fancy actors, and Mr.

4:30Beast was there. None of them knew who he was. and I was like doing the numbers, which is if you took like one of the A-list celebrities and added up the total number of people that have seen all of his movies ever, it doesn't even come close to like one video from Mr. Beast. Crazy. Right? And yet none of them knew who he was. That's another consideration, which is that 21-year-old actually does have a skill set and they know that that skill set has value. And so they are entering the workforce knowing that they know something that you don't know. And so they're not coming in as total idiots. And so I think it's right for older generations to recognize that they actually know stuff that we don't know.

5:07And they're actually good at things better than we were when we were their age. And that has value, just not as much value as they may think because there's still a lot more for them to learn.

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