Simon Sink Speech

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Simon Sinek (2016), a popular speaker, presented a speech on the topic of millennials and their addiction of the internet. In his speech, Sinek argues that millennials are addicted to the internet and tough to manage, and he gives the four main reasons why all millennials are like that- The reasons he states are parents, technology, impatience, and environment. He believes that most millennials are the outcome of “failed parenting strategies”- parents tell their kids they are special, can have anything they want in life without working for it, and build up their self-esteem at a young age which makes them narcissistic. When these kids grow up and face the real world, they find out that everything their parents told them was a lie which makes them lazy, entitled, and crushes their high self-esteem they grew up with. Sinek then connects the generation with low self-esteem and the use of technology, “…we are growing up in a Facebook/Instagram world, in other words, we are good at putting filters on things. We’re good at showing people that life is amazing even though I am depressed” (Sinek, 2016). What he is trying to say is that rather than facing their problems, millennials would rather sound tough and act like they have everything figured out when in reality, they have no clue what they are doing- this is all because the self-esteem their parents helped build got crushed …show more content…

You want to watch a movie, logon and watch a movie… You want to watch a TV show, binge. You don’t even have to wait week-to-week-to-week” (Sinek, 2016). Almost everything is instant and when millennials don’t get what they want instantly, they become impatient and Sinek believes that they need to learn how to become patient because the bigger things in life are going to take

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