What A Gen Zer Has Learned in 2020
Each generation has been dealt a different set of challenges throughout 2020, with some at higher risk of serious health effects in a global pandemic, others losing their jobs and financial futures, and those who had their educations disrupted and shifted online.
Every group has had to adapt to the new reality in their own way and take different lessons from it. As a member of Gen Z, I became alarmed by how many of my peers were reacting and what they were taking away from the series of events everyone found themselves within.
Although at the higher age range of Gen Z, working full time at a job that shifted from home while attending graduate school online, the things I have learned so far are the direct result of what I consumed.
While millions spent their time glued to cable news and the endless scroll of social media, I chose to be intentional about my consumption, mostly in the form of the 50 books I have read so far this year.
I explored what the pandemic could teach us from another perspective through Albert Camus’ The Plague, Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is the Way, and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning.
I understood finance as we saw market turmoil with Scott Nation’s A History of the United States in Five Crashes, Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan, and three U.S…
