Why people recommend it
Generations by Jean M. Twenge is an insightful non-fiction book that explores the distinct characteristics, cultural shifts, and psychological profiles of different generational cohorts, ranging from Baby Boomers to Gen Z. The book has garnered substantial attention across various influential podcasts. On Modern Wisdom, Scott Barry Kaufman discussed the author's detailed analysis of how entitlement has shifted among youth across generations. Similarly, Abigail Shrier brought up the book on The Joe Rogan Experience to examine telling statistics regarding adolescent mental health, highlighting a particularly striking data point that boys from liberal families exhibited worse mental health than girls from conservative families. On No Stupid Questions, Angela discussed the book's specific focus on generational categories and their implications for America's future, reading out the full title. Ezra Klein dedicated a segment of The Ezra Klein Show to the text, engaging with the author directly about the full-blown mental health crisis currently facing young people and the overarching thesis that modern generations are deeply and technologically mediated. Finally, Modern Wisdom's host referenced Twenge's scholarly trajectory by mentioning her foundational 2006 work, Generation Me, while introducing her to the audience. Together, these discussions highlight the book's profound utility in understanding contemporary societal anxieties and youth culture.
Who recommended it
- Ezra Klein Discussed
- Scott Barry Kaufman Discussed
- Abigail Shrier Discussed
Ezra Klein — 2 mentions
“so in your new book Generations you write quote that there's a full-blown Mental Health crisis among young people”
“so one of your your big Theses throughout Generations is it Generations are technologically mediated”
Scott Barry Kaufman — 1 mention
“and Gene Twangi has has done a great analysis of this in her book generations. prior generation.”
Abigail Shrier — 1 mention
“and that actually we're seeing that in you know Jean twangy came out with this book Generations and one of the things she said in it is that boys even even though teenage girls have the worst mental health in general boys from Liberal families had worse mental health than girls from conservative families in terms of anxiety and depression”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 2
“And by the way, these are categories that she writes about in her recent book. The title of that book is Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents and What They Mean for America's Future.”
“one of the first ones that you wrote was generation me which was back in 2006.”
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Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
“i had gene twangy on the show recently lady that wrote igen and new book generations”
“and then in her 2017 book igen and her new book Generations she's put together reams of charts”
“so one of the things that is in the the Gen X chapter of Generations is the high school student surveys”
“um this isn't a millennial chapter of generations and this is a little bit of a mystery”
“your new book is called Generations”
“yeah so what I've tried to do in the book is rely on the data sets that have been consistent for the longest period of time so there's a survey of 18 year olds in the U.S that goes back to 1976 and has used the exact same questions”
“and you know that's also the theory that I talk about a lot in in the new book is that technology has all of these wide-ranging effects that it's not just we use different technology it's how has that changed our behaviors”
“yeah you know so the the new book Generations about all six living American generations and just tons of tons of data and conclusions in there so my website is Gene twangy.com so”
“her other published books include generation me why today's Young Americans are more confident assertive entitled and more miserable than ever before the narcissism epidemic living in the age of entitlement co-authored with W Keith Campbell...”