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Web Esteem

... -confidence. By its nature, this real-world feedback was limited in quantity and scope. Today’s Web-connected teens, on the other hand, regularly interact with a much larger, global community of peers. They look to the online crowd for bulk support of their decisions, ideas, feelings, and preferences. And as Ys’ social community has expanded, so has the potential for positive reinforcement. For perhaps the first time in history, personal validation is quantifiable. Peer approval can be measured in ...

Peace Of Mind: The Guide To Gen Z Burnout

... Ys, who grew up trusting these organizations and lost that trust later on in life, Zs have grown up never truly being able to put their faith in these establishments. Partisan conflicts with both the U.S. and UK governments, which are meant to protect their interests and help secure their future, have among other things incited racism, failed to protect them from violence and terrorism, and, in the case of the U.S., neglected the global climate crisis—all issues that keep Zs up at night ...

Flair and Balanced

... through its partners—including NPR, CNN, USA TODAY, Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour, MSN, and Axel Springer.Quartz is a digitally-native news outlet, born in 2012, for business people in the new global economy. It embraces creative and intelligent journalism with a broad worldview, built primarily for the devices closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones. Quartz boasts five million unique monthly visitors, 40% of whom are outside the United States, and 60% of whom access the site on mobile ...

Outer Limits

... balloon’s burst to win a forthcoming trip to space.Virgin Galactic has signed Land Rover as its first global sponsor for the next three years. As part of the partnership, the Virgin Galactic team and all future astronauts will ride in Land Rover vehicles to space training and to the spaceship.Japanese beverage company Otsuka plans to bring the first commercial product to outer space. In October 2015, it will send to the moon a titanium container filled with its powdered Pocari Sweat sports drink. ...

Culture Counseling

... highlights the impact of climate change by following celebrity investigators as they visit places affected by global warming, and interview experts and ordinary people there. - Encourage them to have an optimistic outlook, even during troubling times - That Dragon, Cancer is an autobiographical video game from designers Ryan and Amy Green, which tells the story of their youngest son’s terminal illness while teaching players about the disease, hope, and faith. - Introduce them to other languages - Koe ...

School Of (Work)Life

... , automotive, or whichever industry employs them. Facebook is leading this movement, having recently announced that it will build its own “village” of 1,500 homes across the street from its global headquarters for workers struggling to pay soaring rents in Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, Google is providing 300 apartment units for its employees, and audiobook company Audible offers a housing lottery for employees to get $2,000 a month in free rent for a year in a building near the company’s ...

The FUND-amentals

... financial stockpile during the Great Recession and have to put off their retirement. They understand that amassing a substantial savings isn’t a guarantee of future security due to the fickle nature of the economy in their own countries and on a global scale. Rather, they prefer to maximize the profit they can generate from investment in themselves, amassing experiences that never lose their value and pay metaphorical dividends—unlike possessions that can quickly depreciate (read: cars, tech ...

Shopography

... they barely notice the person on the other side of the counter. These staid retail formats embody, literally, the consumerist culture that young people have begun to shun. Youth are reacting to a lack of community and character in the modern shopping ecosystem. Far from feeling personal and local, many malls, high streets, and department stores have come to offer an unprecedented array of mass global brands—think H&M, Topshop, Macy’s, and Uniqlo—making these retail ...

Free Spirit(uality)

... own, and their peers’, sound judgment. They consider exploration of the soul to be a journey that requires more flexibility than that presented by religion. Whereas spirituality’s inclusivity closely aligns with their open-source mindset, they perceive religion to be too exclusive and uncompromising. In keeping with their global curiosity, they enjoy learning about different religions, but ultimately, they like to choose the elements of each that best meet their transcendental goals. They don’t ...

Sense In Sensitivity

... all too often across the globe, brands shouldn’t treat ones that take place in a certain area as more significant than others. They’re expected to show that they’re paying attention to major events happening near and far and demonstrate that they feel for people everywhere. Of course they can’t address every issue, but as brands increasingly have a global presence, they should strive to be more globally conscious and concerned with the common good. The public praised Facebook for activating its ...