Mountain Minute: Millennials are lazy… says who?

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I often find it insulting when I'm accused as a Millennial who is lazy and fails to work hard in life. That I complain about things needing to always come instantaneously to me on my phone. 

Philosophical Engineering

What is fascinating is looking at the people who actually are accusing Millennials of being these stereotypes. Most them are older people. So what credibility is there in describing a generation that they are not? This seems hardly acceptable. Would I criticize Lebron James about his work ethic in basketball, when clearly I'm not a basketball player and not even at his level?

I agree that technology has changed the way we operate and that we are used to downloading and streaming information quicker than before. That there is a misperception that hard work is lost when we don't have our face buried in books, but instead our phones.

But to change the direction of the accusations, it seems more appropriate to consider the effects of the Shallowing Hypothesis. That the more we (that is anybody and not just Millennials) use technology that promotes rapid communication style, without balancing it with a slower paced style, do we put ourselves into a position that has trained us to be inefficient at engagement in reflective thinking.