Every generation has faced a broken world. Wars, poverty, injustice, economic collapse. None of that is new. So why does this generation feel more hopeless than any that came before?

In this episode, Tess makes the case that it is not the world that got worse. It is the exposure. And for the first time in history, there is nowhere to look that is not the world.

Tess walks through what the research actually says about why this is happening, why it hits Gen Z harder than any other generation, and one reframe that genuinely changes how you relate to all of it in this psychologically grounded episode.

In this episode:

• Why the generation that grew up with everything at their fingertips also grew up with no off switch
• What a magazine had 50 years ago that a smartphone still cannot offer
• Martin Seligman's learned helplessness research and how it maps directly onto the Gen Z experience
• Why 79% of Gen Zers believe their lives will be harder than their parents, and why they are not wrong to think so
• The difference between learned helplessness and learned hopefulness, and how to move from one to the other
• What leaders and managers often misread as apathy or laziness in their Gen Z employees
• The one thing organizations can do that functions as a direct psychological antidote

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