| Interesting read, I found the tips at the end to be both...
extremely practical, and kind of a mix of "You suck...BUT YOU DONT HAVE TO!". However, I feel the writer is massively ineffective at communicating the
tips at the end. I think a few things could improve this to be readable by more than just the curious. * - Stop lumping a 30 year gap into one group/personality.
// While aware that you may not be, it doesn't come off as that, I may feel this way because I was born in '91.* * - Start with a problem. Fix the problem, before the next problem.
example: A lot of people with this mentality share another slightly dysfunctional mentality, with this [subject] you'll come across this [problem]. Here is how you fix it, and work past it. * * - Work on the wording. You seem either pretentious or born in the 40's and pissed about how the world changed, unable to accept advancements/changes through the world, while being angry with a younger
generation. (Also, this is the internet, just to be clear, I'm not trying to be an asshole.) * I hope you understand. I was born in this generation of "GYPSYs" as you (or the author) called it,
I don't feel a sense of entitlement, my sense of being 'special' isn't "I am better than you.", it's
more so that I have a love of education, technology, and programming, and that's 'special' to me because
quite a few of the people I've known in my generation strongly dislike those topics. Frankly, I love working my ass off and seeing a small blade of grass popup in my metaphorical soil.
I hope (not expect) some day this metaphorical soil will be covered in countless tiny blades of
grass that end up becoming a gigantic metaphorical greener-grass that is my life. There are plenty of people (young and old-alike) that feel they are entitled to things. Respect,
Success, Money, Fame(?). Those people suck. But your entire mentality isn't based on the time
you were born. I feel like the things experience it, mixed with your environment are what attribute
to those types of mentalities. (Yes, the old Nature VS Nurture) - Ash |