#organizational health

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By: Tunku Varadarajan

Published: Dec 30, 2022

The phrase “generation gap” became popular in the late 1960s, as baby boomers were coming of age. To hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tell it, today’s generation gap has widened into a chasm. “We have a whole generation that’s doing terribly,” he says in an interview at his professorial office, book-lined and hushed, at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He calls it a “national crisis.”

At 59, Mr. Haidt is a young boomer, and he isn’t talking about millennials, some of whom are in their 40s by now. Rather, he has in mind the younger cohort, Generation Z, usually defined as those born between 1997 and 2012. “When you look at Americans born after 1995,” Mr. Haidt says, “what you find is that they have extraordinarily high rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide and fragility.” There has “never been a generation this depressed, anxious and fragile.”

He attributes this to the combination of social media and a culture that emphasizes victimhood. The latter was the subject of his most recent book, “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure” (2018), with co-author Greg Lukianoff. Social media is Mr. Haidt’s present obsession. He’s working on two books that address its harmful impact on American society: “Kids in Space: Why Teen Mental Health Is Collapsing” and “Life After Babel: Adapting to a World We Can No Longer Share.”

The former title is a metaphor. Mr. Haidt imagines “literally launching our children into outer space” and letting their bodies grow there: “They would come out deformed and broken. Their limbs wouldn’t be right. You can’t physically grow up in outer space. Human bodies can’t do that.” Yet “we basically do that to them socially. We launched them into outer space around the year 2012,” he says, “and then we expect that they will grow up normally without having normal human experiences.”

Mr. Haidt’s research, confirmed by that of others, shows that depression rates started to rise “all of a sudden” around 2013, “especially for teen girls,” but “it’s only Gen Z, not the older generations.” If you’d stopped collecting data in 2011, he says, you’d see little change from previous years. “By 2015 it’s an epidemic.” (His data are available in an open-source document.)

What happened in 2012, when the oldest Gen-Z babies were in their middle teens? That was the year Facebook acquired Instagram and young people flocked to the latter site. It was also “the beginning of the selfie era.” Apple’s iPhone 4, released in 2010, had the first front-facing camera, which was much improved in the iPhone 5, introduced two years later. Social media and selfies hit a generation that had led an overprotected childhood, in which the age at which children were allowed outside on their own by parents had risen from the norm of previous generations, 7 or 8, to between 10 and 12.

That meant the first social-media generation was one of “weakened kids” who “hadn’t practiced the skills of adulthood in a low-stakes environment” with other children. They were deprived of “the normal toughening, the normal strengthening, the normal anti-fragility.” Before 2010, teenagers had flip phones. “They’d text each other and say, ‘Let’s meet down at the mall.’ They would do things together.” Now, their childhood “is largely just through the phone. They no longer even hang out together.” Teenagers even drive less than earlier generations did.

Mr. Haidt especially worries about girls. By 2020 more than 25% of female teenagers had “a major depression.” The comparable number for boys was just under 9%. The comparable numbers for millennials at the same age registered at half the Gen-Z rate: about 13% for girls and 5% for boys. “Kids are on their devices all the time,” he says, but boys play videogames, often in groups: “Boys thrive if they have a group of boys competing against another group of boys.”

Most girls, by contrast, are drawn to “visual platforms,” Instagram and TikTok in particular. “Those are about display and performance. You post your perfect life, and then you flip through the photos of other girls who have a more perfect life, and you feel depressed.” He calls this phenomenon “compare and despair” and says: “It seems social because you’re communicating with people. But it’s performative. You don’t actually get social relationships. You get weak, fake social links.”

Mr. Haidt says he has no antipathy toward the young, and he calls millennials “amazing.” Older folks make fun of them, “but that’s the normal teasing across generations that you get going back to Plato.” To illustrate his point about Gen Z, Mr. Haidt challenges people to name young people today who are “really changing the world, who are doing big things that have an impact beyond their closed ecosystem.” He can think of only two, neither of them American: Greta Thunberg, 19, the Swedish climate militant, and Malala Yousafzai, 25, the Pakistani advocate for female education. By contrast, he says millennials remade the “entire world”—though not necessarily for the better. Mark Zuckerberg, born in 1984, founded Facebook when he was 20.

He concedes that his judgment of Gen Z may be premature: “It could be that you’ll see some impact in three or four years, by the time they’re 30. But I’m predicting that they will be less effective, less impactful, than previous generations.” Why? “You should always keep your eye on whether people are in ‘discover mode’ or ‘defend mode.’ ” In the former mode, you seize opportunities to be creative. In the latter, “you’re not creative, you’re not future-thinking, you’re focused on threats in the present.”

University students who matriculated starting in 2014 or so have arrived on campus in defend mode: “Here they are in the safest, most welcoming, most inclusive, most antiracist places on the planet, but many of them were acting like they were entering some sort of dystopian, threatening, immoral world.” Once they enter the workplace, they’re less innovative, less inclined to take risks, and that may “undermine American capitalism,” Mr. Haidt says.

He points to the work of the Manhattan Institute’s Zach Goldberg, who extrapolated from Pew Research Institute data and found that 56% of women 18 to 29 responded affirmatively to the question: Has a doctor or other healthcare provider ever told you that you have a mental health condition? “Some of that,” Mr. Haidt says, “has to be just self-presentational,” meaning imagined. “This is exactly part of the problem. This new ideology . . . valorizes victimhood. And if your sub-community motivates you to say you have an anxiety disorder, how is this going to affect you for the rest of your life?” He answers his own question: “You’re not going to take chances, you’re going to ask for accommodations, you’re going to play it safe, you’re not going to swing for the fences, you’re not going to start your own company.”

Mr. Haidt predicts that Gen-Z women will be much less successful than millennial ones. After observing young women who are now in their 20s, he worries that the “gender gap that’s been closing very rapidly in many fields over the last couple of decades might begin to widen in the 2030s.” Whereas millennial women are doing well, “Gen-Z women, because they’re so anxious, are going to be less successful than Gen-Z men—and that’s saying a lot, because Gen-Z men are messed up, too.”

The problem, he says, is distinct to the U.S. and other English-speaking developed countries: “You don’t find it as much in Europe, and hardly at all in Asia.” Ideas that are “nurtured around American issues of race and gender spread instantly to the U.K. and Canada. But they don’t necessarily spread to France and Germany, China and Japan.” Thus America’s “supply of young people who are not anxious or depressed will heavily depend on taking people who are not born in an English-speaking country.”

The anxiety and fragility at the youthful end of the American workforce is making the labor force troublesome to work with. “This is something I hear from a lot of managers, that it’s very difficult to supervise their Gen-Z employees, that it���s very difficult to give them feedback.” That makes it hard for them to advance professionally by learning to do their jobs better.

At the same time, social media promotes an organizational culture of fear. “If corporations become less effective because everyone’s afraid of Twitter, afraid of what will be said about them,” he says, “this could severely damage American capitalism.” When managers are “afraid to speak up honestly because they’ll be shamed on Twitter or Slack, then that organization becomes stupid.” Mr. Haidt says he’s “seen a lot of this, beginning in American universities in 2015. They all got stupid in the same way. They all implemented policies that backfire.”

Mr. Haidt, who describes himself as “a classical liberal like John Stuart Mill, ” also laments the impact of social media on political discourse: “Social media is incompatible with liberal democracy because it has moved conversation, and interaction, into the center of the Colosseum. We’re not there to talk to each other. We’re there to perform” before spectators who “want blood.”

Is there a solution? “I’d raise the age of Internet adulthood to 16,” he says—“and enforce it.” Thirteen-year-olds can legally sign up for social-media sites, and millions of much younger children use them. “They just lie about their birthdays. The Internet teaches them that all you have to do is lie and you can go anywhere. That’s what we’ve taught kids so far, and it has to stop.”

In the physical world, he observes, “we have more than a hundred years of making things safe for children. We require car seats and seat belts. We eliminated cigarette vending machines. We have fences around pools.” By contrast, “life went onto phone-based apps 10 years ago, and the protections we have for children are zero, absolutely zero.” The damage to Generation Z from social media “so vastly exceeds the damage from Covid that we’re going to have to act.”

There may be a glimmer of hope: Adolescents, he says, have an inkling of their own predicament. Mr. Haidt has addressed classes of seventh- and eighth-graders on the perils of social media. “I ask them, ‘Would you get off it on your own?’ Many are afraid to do that. But when I ask, ‘What if nobody could be on? Would that be better?’ they mostly say yes.”

Gen Z, he says, “is not in denial. They recognize that this app-based life is really bad for them.” He reports that they wish they had childhoods more like those of their parents, in which they could play outside and have adventures with their friends. They see the point of getting off social media, he insists: “So long as it’s not just targeting one child but everybody, I believe they’d be very supportive.”

[rainbow-needs-help]

recently i’ve seen people posting about their struggles with dental hygiene and honestly? it’s helped me a lot with mine so here’s hoping i can help spur someone who struggles with it into brushing their teeth today. so without further ado:

the routine i started doing that has helped me actually do the thing!!!

so firstly, i found out pretty early on that i absolutely despise the taste of mint toothpaste. doesn’t matter what kind, it makes me gag. i hate it. so instead, i went out and got myself a thing of kids watermelon toothpaste like i used to have in elementary school, and that helped quite a bit on its own, but it wasn’t enough to actually get into a habit. so i added some other things to the mix!!

the first night i started on my “let’s actually do it this time” mission i kept telling myself the whole time how my favorite fictional characters would be proud of me for doing this, even if i bled and cried a little, they were all proud, and that helped a lot more than expected so if you’re a blorbo bitch like me, your blorbos are proud of you!!! tell yourself that!!!

the other thing that helps quite a bit is the fact that i paired brushing my teeth with taking my meds before bed during my routine. i have an app that reminds me to take said meds, and i’m not allowed to hit the “i took my meds” button until i have also brushed my teeth. they go hand in hand in my brain

i also have one of those tiny hourglass thingies that runs for like two minutes and you get em from the dentist as a treat. helps to know how short of a time it actually takes to do the thing

the thing that has helped me the most however, is music. i am an extremely musical person i almost always have music playing no matter what i’m doing, and i just got these amazing noise canceling headphones for my birthday, so i started using those while brushing and y’all. it is a game changer. i’ve only added music to the routine the past couple nights, but tonight was the first time i actually genuinely enjoyed brushing my teeth. i was jamming and dancing and i didn’t even notice when my little hourglass ran out bc Music!!

so yeah!! that’s all the shit i do to help make brushing my teeth a little more manageable. i know different people struggle for different reasons, but for me, it was mostly just the fact that it wasn’t a habit that was built when i was young, so now i have to deal with it now, when forming habits feels impossible. i still only brush once a day, instead of morning and night, but after about a week of brushing once a day, my gums and teeth don’t bleed and it doesn’t hurt or sting. i have a couple spots that are way sensitive, and those are just. always going to be like that i think. and i’m getting rambly now without meaning to but. yeah!! hopefully someone finds this useful, and hopefully by sharing i’ve made other people who struggle feel a little safer and less alone

[angstmonsterwrites]

I found this in my various scrolling fits today, and while it could probably afford to be just a little more nuanced (intersection between these layers does happen, for one) it did illuminate something for me--or at least help me better describe a terrible annoyance: A great many people who harp on the necessity of critical thinking are themselves often not true critical thinkers. They're contrarians using a vocabulary to punch down.

Genuine critical thinking and a mind open to learning requires a modicum of humility, self awareness, and a willingness toward constructive change. You're not going to learn shit if you're hell bent on thinking you're right all the time, all while shaming others' learning process. [Insert a whole assed essay here about the inevitable overlap between the Contrarian and Cult Leader.]

Anyhow, it is 10000% possible to be critical or even corrective without the overblown 'Mean-Girls' style egotism. Cruelty and condescension are generally not signs of intellectual strength, but are more likely symptoms of either insecurity or a toxic agenda. The self-important arrogance of the bottom three tiers and confidence one might acquire through a sincere exercise of the top two are not one and the same. Sadly, one certainly does like to masquerade as the other, and a fairly serious non-zero number of people--even some otherwise highly intelligent ones--tend to fall for it.

[elektroyu]

Just went potty with the doggos and found it has snowed like 6cm in the last 2 hours and

it's like winter ✨❄️🌨️

[mabrotherton]

Bereavement should always qualify for sick leave. Grief is a real mental health issue. Mental health issues are health issues. This seems obvious, and yet, so many places don't allow it. We should all be working to change the stigma. Nobody should have to work ill. For some of us, that might be the flu. For some, it's overwhelming grief. For me, it is often depression making it impossible to get out of bed. There will be arguments about "abuse of the system." Those arguments just make me angry. If your system is getting abused, ask yourself why you've created a work environment that drives all of your employees away. Then fix that. I promise the abuse will go away. I also promise you, those of us with mental health issues are having a fun, Ferris Bueller's Day Off adventure when we take a mental health day. Most of the time, I'm either unconscious our seriously fighting for my life against an enemy that never stops coming. I'd much rather have the flu.

[vetteldixon]

i’ve tried and failed several times to compile some kind of tag index, and i think the way it’s going to get accomplished is if i do the drafting process piecemeal on me actual blog. filter out #tag index wip if you don’t wanna see that stuff, but it shouldn’t be something that clogs the dash!

and if any of y’all have any suggestions or tips for the kinds of tags you’d like to have easy access to, toss me an ask or something because my first attempts stalled when i realized there’s a couple dozen tags i use regularly...

[validworthblog]

What are the organizational factors that influence the safety behavior of workers

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[censemaking]

The Neurodiversity of Work and Perils of Planning

When we recognize the diversity in our nervous systems, the problems with most organizational planning models become more evident, and we can start designing them for humans, not ideas. If you work with more than one other person — and how many of us don’t? — you encounter diversity. When we design systems to improve our work, we design them to fit a singular model with certain traits in mind…

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what if a good thing happened to me for once

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Selecting the Ideal Healthcare Consulting Firm for Your Hospital Construction Project

Introduction

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[jedi-bird]

Made it to ikea today anc got some of the stuff I needed (everything was in stock but they don't carry some of the size frames I need). As usually happens, I wound up with an impulse buy of a cute little plush astronaut kitty, because space and cats and plushies. This week I'm going to try and focus on the living room and the garage now that the weather is cooling down, with the goal of ordering the rest of the shelves by the end of next month (preferably before but we'll see how it goes).