http://fusion.net/story/373561/yellowbrick-millennials-failure-to-launch/So your generation is not yet named. You have here a chart that explains the generations and their titles. The article I have posted here is about millennials. Read the article what is it about? React to it. How might the habits you are developing, good or bad, impact whether or not you will need to check into this program. Argue how success can be achieved. You can be creative and or provide examples of success. Your blog must be a minimum of 400 words in order to get credit.
"Growing up is horrifying," the article states. This statement is factual for everyone. Those who look forward college often become increasingly more afraid of what's going to happen in the future. Each generation has its downsides, but ours arguably has the greatest downsides. There are times where I am legitimately embarrassed to be associated with my generation. I often don't know how to respond to the next stupid trend that arises. People are constantly making idiotic remarks for attention, and it makes us look stupid. People part of a previous generation are ashamed of us and laugh at us for the ridiculousness that radiates from us. While many of us are intelligent individuals who have a head on our shoulders, a majority are doing whatever's trendy in order to be liked in high school/college. This is what makes us look idiotic to older generations. For example, when a younger person "dabs" or yells "Manchester" to someone, how ridiculous does that look in the eyes of someone older? Sure, they had trendy things in their youth, but it was never as extreme. Nor did it govern their lifestyle. We might see it as them not understanding the trend, but that's certainly not the case. They're borderline ashamed of what we've become. We're obsessed with popularity. What happens after high school? It's gone. Was it really worth it? Another example is our use of the internet (I may sound slightly hypocritical because I use the internet quite a bit, but just bear with me). Many of us use social media and YouTube casually and periodically bring up something funny or interesting we found, while others have their lives completely governed by it and actually create pseudo-careers off them. It's not necessarily a new field where you can work, it's an avoidance of work in order to do what's trendy, which is exactly what the article discusses. The article talks about these things possibly being attributed to a psychiatric disorder. We're refusing to grow up because we want to stay young for all the wrong reasons. We'd rather be popular on Twitter than enter to college doctorate program. (Continued in Second Half)
ReplyDelete(Part 2) Success is the major issue in this whole concept. Success can only be achieved by finding your passion and pursuing it, day and night, for life. Success has nothing to do with money. If you enter a well-paying job field, such as anesthesiology, and you find out you can't stand to work open the medical field because you just wanted paid, you lose. You might be wealthy, but you're not successful. Success has to satisfy yourself and your passion, not just your wallet. For example, David Draiman from Disturbed is a Grammy-nominated musician known for his true passion for music. Originally, he was going to be a lawyer and pursue criminal justice, but knew he couldn't do it because he would have to defend the guilty. Music was always close to him, and he used his powerful voice to front one of the greatest bands ever. Another example is Corey Taylor of Slipknot fame. He did what was popular and trendy (drugs) and eventually reached a low point in his life that showed him he couldn't do that for life. While recovering from an almost fatal overdose at 16, he saw Faith No More"0's performance at the VMAs. He claims this experience of watching that band made him the person he is. These are success stories, and it's what people don't see. The only success stories they have to see are the ones based on popularity, like the Kardashians. They've done nothing, they're famous, and now that's hate being famous when it bugs them. The problem here, is they did it for fame. The two success stories I mentioned previously did not. They did it because of their passion for music. That passion is what defines us and makes us truly successful.
ReplyDeleteNick I like how you explained that going through life (just focusing on money) and living life (following on passion) have different outcomes. One is successful while the other one is not. Doing what you love can still pay the bills. It's just a matter of balance. Good job.
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DeleteEstablishing the consistent trends that degrade the worth of our generation was a smart move. I too think it's funny at times, but also quite annoying and childish. Reading your blog makes me realize that in 5.5 months, I will be separated from the high school fabs and trends. So in conclusion, it makes me appreciate the high school idiocies that make me laugh and also make me mad. I know that after high school there's whole world out there I don't know about. So taking in the high school trends makes me feel like I still have some time left before I'm forced to "grow up". I too am hoping that those "trend" followers and setters find their place knowing there's a time and place their teenage jokes.
DeleteAs always, I have read your blog. For the second week in a row I am actually agreeing with what you are saying. I agree that our generation is childish and I like the way you used Manchester for an example. I hate that saying! However, you should describe more how it relates to the article next time!
DeleteI understand and ageee to a certain extent, but I feel like you generalized many, many people in this blog. Doing so made it easier to write, I'm sure, but it is simply not reality.
DeleteMany people born in earlier generations than us complain about how our generation is losing its intelligence, or that we are lazy and don't want to do anything in our life just sit around and play video games all day or sit on our phones. They aren't completely wrong, there are people in our generation who would like to do that and I can name a few off the top of my head as of right now. Not everyone in our generation though is like this there are those who love learning new things, take the initiative to succeed in classes, read books, and know what they want to do with their life after college. There is a third group as well in this generation, the group of people who have lost their way on the path to a bright future, those who feel they mean nothing, that they can do nothing that will change their life or set it back on the correct path for them. They feel worthless and struggle with demons that eat away at their self confidence and self worth. Most of these people turn to drinking, sex, etc. They find these terrible things as a way to escape their own thoughts. These ways are not the correct event to go about trying to get away from the demons. Yellowbrick is a facility that can help adults age 18-30 overcome their depression, alcoholism, anxiety and so much more. The facility is seen as a very nice and clean place with kind staff available twenty four seven. Most people can receive treatment for a year while living in one of the apartments designed for the patients. The time of stay does not pose a huge concern as to wether the treatment works or that the patient has overcome the difficulties that has set them back in life. I feel this treatment is very successful however, it can have its set backs. These people are separated from their loved ones for long periods of time depending on treatment meaning they could no longer feel like anyone cares about them or that they were sent away because those people no longer wanted to deal with them. This can have a negative effect on the patient and can cause many setbacks to the treatment meaning they could have to stay for longer periods of time or that the patient will resort to suicidal attempts. Knowing from experience therapy can have different effects on each person that walks through the door and has a talk with a therapist. Some people don't mind talking about their problems and trying to get help for the problem they know they have, while others have issues talking about their mental illness or problems they are having because they don't want the sympathy or they are scared that the therapist will judge them heavily. Meanwhile in earlier generations some people see someone receiving therapy as that person being crazy or as them wanting attention for themselves. This is far from the truth, I was in therapy for two years of my life and I always felt the awkwardness of having to talk about myself because I am a person who would rather have others tell me about themselves and what they are experiencing rather than me. I endured people giving me sympathetic looks or looks of disgust when they would over hear me talking to my mother or friends of therapy appointments that day. Therapy is not something to be ashamed of, it is something to embrace. Remember that you are getting help for something that can ruin your outlook on yourself and can ruin the path to a bright future.
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DeleteWhat are my good and bad habits then that could qualify me for Yellowbricks treatment plans. I can procrastinate on my work or put little effort into something I do not know. However, I am only 16 and have much room to grow until I am 18. I wouldn't say that Yellowbrick treatment is good for me personally because my parents and sisters are my rocks in my life as well as my friends who provide me with strength everyday of my life. I would not be able to fully gain the full potential of my treatment because of having doubts in my mind of my strength or self worth to my family because I would not be able to see them and possibly hear from them. This treatment is not for everyone and people will relapse however, I believe if works for some patients that have lost their way frolicking in the field of life.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, you've got time to figure stuff out. I'm glad you added a third type of person. I hadn't considered the third group. Very well put.
DeleteNichole, I like how you incorporated your personal experiences of similar treatments into your blog. It provided a nice taste of uniqueness to it. Keep up the good work.
DeleteThe article is about a treatment center called YellowBrick. A certain problem is starting to comeout with millennials. Unlike the generations before them, millennials are not acting like young adults. Instead of living life, they dedicate most of their time pusuring knowledge of knowing themselves. So, a place known as YellowBrick is trying to reshape them into productive members of society by learning basic life skills like cleaning and scheduling for children who were served with a silver platter their entire life. It was founded to "treat 'emerging adult' brains. I wouldn't go as far as to paint a picture of all millennials when I read this article. Only ones whose parents didn't parent. If it wasn't for the other treatments they do for their patients like "mood and anxiety disorders, PTSD, psychosis, avoidant personalities, substance abuse, eating disorders, and 'failure to launch,'" then I would call the entire treatment center "a waste of good money." It makes me upset that it takes over 28k a month for these people to learn basic life skills. My solution? The patients could go and work as a hire hand on a farm. Actually having dirt under their fingernails is a much more efficient and effective way of teaching basic life skills than from a expert in a treatment center. Some habits I developed that are bad are procrastination and not making my bed. But in no way will I ever spend such a massive amount of money like that for someone to tell me basic life skills. I instead use my number one habit, that is to challenge myself, to help negate the effect of the bad habits, and it works. Success isn't going to get achieved by not striving to be successful. Would my team have won the debate between the education curriculums if I hadn't stayed up till 2:00 in the morning making pamphlets and a keynote to deliver that extra edge we needed for victory? Success can be achieved from a good work ethic and from preserverence through challenges. Putting the need for a job well done over the need for sleep is what success. They have to want success more than they want to sleep. But that's the problem. No one wants to challenge themselves anymore. If someone gets hurt, they try and look for refuge from the danger. What successful people do is they keep going when they hurt so that they can get rewarded for their troubles.
ReplyDeleteTim, I love your view on hard work and think more people should take your advise on this. You know from experience what hard work is because your parents did a great job of teaching you. I've told you before but I'll tell you again, the pamphlets were beautiful and did give us the extra edge 😂😂
DeleteMy favorite part of the blog is the ending example you use about keep going. Also liked how you never let challenges overcome the things you know you can do!
DeleteTim, I totally agree with Bobbi! Your blog is great this week!! Keep up all of the great work.😄
DeleteStarting to write this blog, I wasn't sure what direction to take this in. so I hope I make a little sense. The article describes the concept of the new "emerging adult" and its growing popularity. But there is a group of people that agree with the aspects that go with this, and disagree with it. There are many times hard obstacles that young adults have to face during this time of transition and if people can't get over them, it can lead to depression or anxiety and other serious issues. This would be a terrible time to experience failure, since this time is a transition to a new stage in our lives and we want to succeed. I know myself, that I am extremely nervous to go onto college and actually become a fully fledged adult. On the other hand, I think am ready to tackle the new faze of my life. The story at the beginning of the article felt to real for me. A close cousin of mine had a similar story, but I thank God every day he is in a better situation now. When he was in high school, he was very successful in sports and his schoolwork. As he got closer to his senior year graduation, he started to turn towards the same actions as the boy in the story for similar reasons. He made it into college, but soon dropped out. My family went through multiple different rehabilitation places with him, and he would come home looking and sounding like his old self again. But a few weeks after that he would relapse back into his old habits. None of the rehab places seemed to be helping him enough. Now, he is much better and is living in Virginia with a job he enjoys. When I read about this Yellowbrick program, I couldn't help but think this place was to closed off from society and reality. Older generations complain that our age group and millennials are to coddled. In the article, it said patients end up living their for quite some time. Is the Yellowbrick type of treatment helping our image any? The program seems to have two distinct sides: one that actually helps serious disorders like PTSD, and one for people who haven't "found themselves." This might sound to harsh or ridiculous, but there is a part of me that thinks everything that happens, happens for a reason. If my cousin hadn't had gone through what he did, would he be happy and safe where he is now? If he was in the Yellowbrick program, would he still be there and not with us in society?
ReplyDeleteParents need to start teaching their children better a better work ethic instead of catering to the child's every "want" (keyword here is "want" not "need"). The only bad habits I have developed are throwing dirty cloths on the ground instead of putting them in a laundry basket or procrastinating my other chores. My parents have taught me how to do the dishes, do the laundry, and cut the grass. Why is it easier to send your child away for lots of money and have someone els do it? Through theses small skills, people become successful. They learn the value of hard work, taking care of yourself, and determination. With these skills, you will be able to do whatever you want in life.
Bobbi, I really like how you not only covered all of the points needed for this blog, but you also put in your own personal story about your cousin. Nice work Bobs👍
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ReplyDeleteYellowbrick is a place for millennials who are at a disconnect with their childhood and adulthood. For example, a man named Sean who was submitted to Yellowbrick because he was at a disconnect with his adulthood. In school he was a gifted child, but around the age eight or nine he realized that he really struggled with the new math skills they were learning. From here his life started to snowball down hill. Sean failed out of high school and his parents shipped off to a boarding school. When boarding school didn't seem to help, he came back to his old school, but had to be held back a grade. Sean ended up graduating from high school, and headed off to college where he decided to drop out the year before he graduated. His life began to snowball again. Sean spent his days drinking, doing drugs, and playing video games. After realizing his problem he went to seek help. After many suggestion from friends and therapists he decided to go to Yellowbrick to seek help.
ReplyDeleteI think that our generation and millennials have different obstacles to over come than any other generation. I think that with all of this new technology our generation is more tempted with procrastination. It's easy to get sucked into phones, computes, iPads, etc. instead of doing work. (I do want to make it clear that I'm saying tempted with procrastination because I'm not saying that we all get sucked into it, but all of us are most definitely tempted.) The people who are sucked into procrastination are developing a very bad habits that could possibly send them to Yellowbrick which is exactly what happened to Sean. It is childish to spend our time procrastinating and although this might seem harmless, procrastination can become a very serious problem.
Success is described as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. I am a very hardworking person and I strive to do my best in life. As many of you may know I take singing very seriously. Singing is my passion. I am working my hardest to be successful, and singing professionally is my aim. Not only do I take lessons and sing for hours each night, but I also strive to get good grades is school because I also value my education. I know that colleges are also looking at my grades as well as my talent which is why I push myself in school as well. Success is the result of hard work, perseverance, and putting everything you have into even the smallest acts.
First, your depiction of the article, I thought, was good enough for the reader to comprehend the gist of the story. However, your opinion of the generations to your sucess is what really sold me on your blog. Using your passion to explain the prompt made it effective 👍🏼
DeleteI liked your take on procrastination. I know I struggle with this sometimes but I have always been able to tell myself to snap out of it and do my work. Some other people actually struggle with this and are not as successful with their procrastination.
DeleteGrowing up is a scary thought, well at least for some people it may be. Molly Osberg's collection of writings contains an institution designed for millennials that are stuck in attempts to turn themselves into adults. This institution is commonly referred to as Yellowbrick. It mentions an individual named Sean who suffered a disconnect with his adulthood. Throughout his early life, he struggled with the perseverance of his success. It referenced himself like imprisonment but outside of the cell. During the elementary age, he was a well rounded student until that of new math material changed his life, but for the worse; he could not understand the new lesson. The long division being taught were so overwhelming for Sean that it started a decrease in his motivation to succeed and perform the expected. He transformed himself into the mediocre student who transcended from the intellectual student, to the goofball of the class who slid by day to day. His parents were not pleased with the person their son was slowly becoming so their next action of implication was to send Sean to a therapeutic boarding school where he was promised the fixings of his personnel. He was sent back home to attend his old high school when the East Coast boarding school was none help at all. Long story short, Sean ended up graduating high school, but dropping out of college his final year. Once again, his life began to have a spiral effect. He began to drinking and taking drugs that became his day to day routine. Through concerns from his parents and friends, he no sooner accepted his attendance to Yellowbrick where he would spend his days attempting to turn his life around.
ReplyDeleteNaturally, each generation is tempted with its newest "wow thing". Just how our generation is constantly said to be tempted with technology, those of generation x and the millennials struggle with their generations temptations such as the magic 8 ball, etch-it sketch, Elvis Presley songs, and the Firebird. Just because technology is portrayed to be one of the biggest distraction, it does not mean that those of the 1970s were not a pressing issue as well. Habits can and are passed down from generation to generation, so the technology aspect can be said to have started before our generation was even born; we are just making it more known, unfortunately. Technology had its times were it's created bad habits of mine, but recognizing this, I tried everything I could to make sure this bad habit did not become a permanent action of mine. Technologies most prominent distraction and habit creator is social media. The feeling like you have to check up on everything all the time is a problem, and can even be said as a disorder. During my junior year, I did go through this time where technology just was like a rain cloud following my every move. No matter what I wanted to do, it made sure I knew if was there and it was not going away. It was like a mini Satan following my every move. Since then, I have gotten progressively better in managing my technology time to my expected completions. If I would not have took a step back and really evaluated what I was doing, I most definitely could have been a candidate for Yellowbrick.
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As a high school student, success can be defined as many different things; athletic success, academic success, theological success, organizational success, the list can go on forever. However, in my strong opinion, it is by doing all of the above is what's considered success. Success always comes with a catch. It is not just by one aspect, such as athletics, that determine your success in life. As it's known, when I was a sophomore, I played on the softball team that won the state championship. Through that time, I started attending open gyms that began in December and the season that only ended in June. Through those seven months, I had practice 5 to 6 days out of 7, hour depending, but mostly 1.5-2 hour practices. I had to manage my school work as well as my success on the field. Being a sophomore and given the opportunity to be the DH (Designated Hitter) for the team that was consisted of eight, very well rounded, talented seniors, I thought it was a privilege and a great opportunity I was granted. I had to work hard to keep my spot on the line up, as well as the honor role. Everyone has their own personal definition of success, but personally, it's through the participation in many extracurricular's whether it's clubs, sports, or a job, while being a full time student. Success is not true and doesn't come without a challenge.
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The story that was connected to the blog was about a man named Sean and his life story. Sean tells the readers how Yellowbrick helped him. Sean's story went something like this, he was a good kid until about 3rd grade. Sean remembers always being good in school until in the 3rd grade when he started struggling with the new math he was learning. This discouraged him and with all the new technology coming out it was so easy for him to get distracted. When he started to become discouraged his mind was opened to the world of "I can't". If you allow this to be true then it will take over. In his sophomore year of high school Sean's parents sent him to boarding school. He ended up going back home and going college but he dropped out before his last year. The problem with Sean is simply the fact of addiction.
ReplyDeleteMany people think of drugs as medicine or alcohol. What about the drugs that you don't put in your mouth or inject into your body? Procrastination is something that is way to common and in my opinion, this blog has everything to do with being lazy. With all the technology it is more than easy to be distracted from things that are more important like school or work. I don't believe that I will ever need to check into this program even though I am sitting here an hour before this blog is due still typing. Every Sunday I do my blog just on time and that is definitely something I could work on. But what the people that see what time I post this blog don't know is that I do my other homework on Friday when I get home from school, take a day off on Saturday, and then do my blog on Sunday after church and visiting with my grandma and grandpa.
Some people struggle more so than others with the hardships of procrastination. Success can not be reached with laziness and slacking off. For example, before someone is hired for a job they are tested for drugs in their system. A lot of drugs stay in the body for up to 3 months! If their are drugs in their system they are not hired for the job. What if someone were to be tested for procrastination in their system? Recently in class we watched an episode from Modern Family and one of the guys at work was only known as the lazy guy. He was fired because no one wants to work with a slacker. Just like drugs procrastination is easy to pick up but almost impossible to get rid of. To come across success you must kick bad habits to the curb and put yourself out there.
Your connections and logic are a bit flawed, and I'm having trouble finding your real answer. It kind of felt like you were skating around the question, and I think you should work on that in you're writing because you really do have a lot of good things to say. Sometimes it just requires a little thinking, but it is worth it!
DeleteThe article states that, "growing up is horrifying", which is true, but all of the horrifying situations you experience in childhood create your adult self. This makes me believe that those who receive car at Yellowbrick are simply being scammed. It is basically like reverting back to a past life stage and delaying the inevitable. Thankfully, we all have to become adults eventually, but I believe Yellowbrick gives patients confidence about surviving in the world as a child. Childhood experiences, as previously stated, shape us in both good and bad ways. Who can judge what way is good and what way is bad? Why do some of these experiences trigger other harmful things, such as "failure to launch" disorder? In the Middle Stage of life between childhood and adulthood, many begin to recollect past events to find out what made us, us. Two mindsets could occur from this action: one of optimism or one of pessimism. The optimists are proud of their past and excited for the future: the remember the good parts of childhood. On the other hand, pessimists remember the bad. Each type of person, the pessimist or the optimist, still has the same responsibility going into adulthood. The choice to take this responsiblility is the diffence between those successful adults and those suffering from failure to launch. The choice they have to make is: Do I pick up these pieces of my life and put them back together as something new or do I give up? Instead of treating those who chose the easy way out, giving up, with sympathy, they should be treated with motivation. Laziness and depression are the cause of this made-up disorder, which is treated and diagnosed by a Yellowbrick doctor. The simple fact that we are acting as if "failure to launch" is a disorder, as I've been referencing it as, instead of what it is, A FAILURE, shows that the generation before us has left society in shambles of sensitivity, laziness, sympathy, and the unfulfillable desire for life to be easy. For the reason, I'd call our generation "Carpenters." We are building/rebuilding our values from what is important, we are choice to pick up the pieces and make a change rather than just giving up. Historically, the fall of an empire is hard to recover from, the same is true today. It is not easy to fix the mistakes of the past, but it is easy to see why we shouldn't repeat them. Carpenters are going to make a huge change, recover from the fall, and fix the problems of the based, specifically caused by Millenials.
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