🚨 What’s the Point? The Powerlessness of Gen Z 🚨

🔎 Why does Gen Z feel powerless?

A generation raised with endless information, limitless technology, and boundless opportunities should feel unstoppable. Instead, Gen Z is struggling with a crippling sense of powerlessness, fear of failure, and declining self-efficacy.

Why?
This video breaks down the real reasons behind Gen Z’s mindset, comparing them to the entrepreneurial, risk-taking Millennials before them and exploring how parenting styles, therapy trends, and societal shifts have led to a generation that doubts its own ability to create change.

🚀 What’s happening to Gen Z?
🔹 The lowest self-efficacy scores in recorded history
🔹 A culture that prioritizes “emotional validation” over real coping skills
🔹 Fear of failure leading to avoidance of risks, setbacks, and growth
🔹 Over-medicalization of normal emotions like anxiety & depression
🔹 Therapeutic trends that encourage rumination over resilience
🔹 Mislabeling of trauma—has society gone too far?
🔹 The disappearance of resilience—why past generations handled adversity better
🔹 The future of Gen Z: Can they reclaim their power?

This video isn’t about blaming Gen Z—it’s about understanding the problem and offering real solutions.

📌 Key Moments & Timestamps:
✅ 0:03 - The Question That Defines Gen Z: "What’s the Point?"
✅ 0:43 - Powerlessness vs. Pessimism: What's Driving Gen Z's Mindset?
✅ 1:42 - Millennials vs. Gen Z: How Their Mindsets Differ
✅ 3:12 - The Fear of Failure: Why Gen Z Plays It Safe
✅ 5:00 - The Pitfalls of Emotional Processing Without Coping Skills
✅ 7:15 - Mental Health & Therapy: Are Some Approaches Backfiring?
✅ 9:31 - The Unexpected Upside of Anxiety & Depression
✅ 10:58 - The Resilience of Past Generations & What Gen Z Can Learn
✅ 12:07 - Trauma vs. Adversity: Where to Draw the Line
✅ 13:15 - A Call to Action: How to Build Resilience in Gen Z

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