29/10/2025
What can we learn from Gen Z?
As someone with a keen focus on longevity, I invest time in reading and researching the question. ‘What makes us live longer and healthier lives’? And much of this is centred around geographical locations, nutrition and lifestyle.
Im also interested in new generations. How their thought patterns differ and what can we learn. If you have Gen Z children or colleagues this may resonate.
It’s common in our 50’s to post on a midlife shift which enables us to stop caring so much about other peoples judgements, negative opinions of us - we shake off the shackles of feeling like we need to ‘fit in’. We may have struggled for years hiding who we really are in order to fit that expectation of marriage/ settled/ steady job/ age appropriate clothing and make up etc
Decades of blending and masking, living unfulfilled lives … how much cortisol is produced I wonder in the process of dumbing down self-expression.
Enter Gen Z who have a wholly different mindset. Where non conformity is to be celebrated. It’s not even a conversation. Authenticity is quietly accepted or noisily fought for. What we reached at 50 they knew by 20.
And this freedom to be yourself will perhaps allow for lives less ‘people pleasing’, calmer central nervous systems …
What we can admire is that natural grasp of ‘you do you’ and the open dialogue of ‘identity, boundaries and wellbeing’
So much to learn from our younger generations. As well as our older ones. If you’re interested to read more, my latest blog post is on just this. Link in my bio.
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