Resilience by Not Expecting Rescue: How the 1950s Shaped Persistent Minds
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A psychologist argues that growing up in the 1950s with little expectation of rescue created a 'stress inoculation' effect: exposure to small, solvable hardships built an internal locus of control and persistence, while later generations' comfort shifted them toward external explanations and entitlement, eroding persistence.
- Psychologists explain that people born in the 1950s aren't just resilient — they're the last generation raised with the assumption that life owed them nothing, which created a baseline expectation of hardship that inoculated them against the entitlement that erod Silicon Canals
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- Research says the 1960s and 70s accidentally produced one of the most emotionally durable generations in modern history — not through better parenting but through benign neglect that forced children to self-regulate, problem-solve, and develop emotional Silicon Canals
- The Boomer generation that learned to swim by being thrown into the water is now the generation that can't ask for a life vest. And the connection between those two facts is the entire problem VegOut
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