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Bold and independent. Brash and willful. Their heroes are not astronauts and scientists, but stars and bloggers. “Born with a phone in their hands”, they get to know the world in a split second. Generation Z are people who are argued about and admired. What is worth learning from them and how to apply the skills inherent in zoomers in personal relationships?
Despite the fact that values change from generation to generation, a happy personal life always remains a priority for many of us. And, as a rule, how to build relationships, we learn from the elders.
But, oddly enough, it makes sense to pay attention to the youth, which is characterized by a different perception of the world and the destruction of the usual dogmas. What romantic life hacks can we learn from zoomers who were born after 1997?
Top 5 Useful Zetter Skills
1. Memory features
Clip thinking allows you to “count” a person in a couple of seconds from photos and videos in social networks or on dating sites and determine whether it is worth communicating with him further. The speed of information perception and decision-making is so high that zetters can forget their interlocutor in a minute if communication does not work out.
Such an approach to the older generation seems superficial and frivolous. What advantages can still be found in it for those over 30? Setting up an internal zetter filter helps to quickly cut off unnecessary people, reflect less and not expect miracles from unpromising relationships. We don’t waste time!
2. No barriers to communication
Zoomers cannot imagine their life without a mobile phone. Checking it at least five times an hour, they want to know how the world has changed while they were sleeping or distracted for lunch. Involvement in virtual life is an important need of this generation.
Social networks, on the one hand, have replaced real communication, and on the other hand, they have made it possible to keep abreast of what is happening always and everywhere, get the necessary information and get to know people who are simply impossible to even meet in ordinary life.
Email Elon Musk? Easily! Chat with your favorite actor or musician in a chat, and then go to private messages and meet – why not? What about meeting foreigners? You can now make friends all over the globe, and in the ideal scenario, you can also improve your personal life by showing your best side in social network windows. And most importantly – now it’s so easy to show yourself to the world!
What to take into account? No one knows in advance what virtual life will lead to in the future, but one thing is certain – there are no more borders. Gradually, prejudices, such as dating on the Internet in order to find love, lose their strength and are bad manners. Going on a virtual date or sitting on a Friday night in the private zoom room of a trendy bar is becoming the norm, giving room for the imagination.
3. Courage and naturalness
It is the absence of complexes and the course towards naturalness – those properties inherent in zoomers that are worth adopting. Feeling freer today is not only fashionable, but also useful. Do you think that only very confident girls can afford video calls without makeup, but with eye patches? Try it!
Men, of course, can be under the illusion for years that girls are already born with makeup and PMS is a female whim, but maybe it’s time for them to become more enlightened about us? After all, then there will be less inflated expectations and more understanding of our needs.
4. Acceptance of yourself and others
Naturalness helps people to accept themselves, destroys blocking attitudes, frames. This is what experts have been teaching clients in psychological training for the past ten years.
To love in middle age and give birth after 40 is quite acceptable for buzzers. Moreover, out loud, they will also not ask you tactless questions: “When will you get married?” They respect their boundaries and try not to violate others. Can you imagine a world without conventions? You are already in it. Just accept the rules of the game!
5. Self-importance
Separately, the self-sufficiency of generation Z deserves attention. There are no more self-confident young people than zoomers. It is difficult to influence them with the help of ideologies, they are independent and feel their value. Already at an early age, they often have a calm, mature sense of dignity beyond their age.
Watch them: maybe it’s time to stop worshiping heroes who are ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others and live someone else’s life? And try to see the heroes in themselves, as zoomers do?
What should be left in the past and not taken with you to the new world?
In the new century, external paraphernalia of luxury has gone by the wayside. Generation Z sings of freedom, personal integrity, it strives for self-realization through creativity, and not through high statuses. Therefore, it is no longer worth judging the success of a young person by external markers of security.
In the modern world, there is no need to hold a high position. Zoomer can simultaneously earn in the IT field, develop his own projects and be a “free artist” in the literal and figurative sense.
How to make zoomer’s life even better?
Firstly, it still makes sense to dig deeper, to abandon superficiality. Then it will be possible to gain experience, and not just jump on a rake. Secondly, independence and isolation is, of course, good, but all internal resources grow when we interact with society.
Therefore, sometimes you need to reckon with other people’s opinions, and not hide each time in your own comfort zone. Otherwise, as in a computer game, you will have to go through the same difficulty level a hundred times.
Taking the best from young people and consciously exchanging experience with them is a very interesting and exciting task. To be in the process of transformation and not close in the shell from any possible changes is not an easy skill.
But still, instead of lamenting the rhetorical question “where is the world heading?”, I propose to move in the same direction with it, using convenient transport – the Internet, and the right fuel, which can be the lifestyle of Generation Z.
About the Developer
Olga Dmitrieva – “female” transformational coach, motivational speaker. Her .