For this week's post I want to talk about a great comment made by Brad Wiskirchen, who had a long career working for the Bank of San Fransisco. During his Q&A session, one of his answers caught my attention " The problem with this generation is that young people believe they are entitled of everything" This is not the first time I have heard something along these lines by a successful person.
We tend to be the ones who always ask What's in it for me? It is always about how much we will get paid, what benefits we will have. I believe we have to stop thinking we are entitled to great things and start working hard for what we want. I know it is not bad to negotiate of our benefits and salary, but we have to work hard and demonstrate we are worth it.
From now on I will work harder for what I think I deserve. I have to earn it and prove myself I am worthy of my dreams. We are a good generation, we have great ideas, vision, and ambitions. However, we have to work harder, just like our past generation.
I have heard this same thing over and over again from people older than us and it makes me sick to think that the Millennial generation only takes on freebies and feel entitled to everything. If we look at the successful people in the world around us, there is not one of them that did not work hard for the place they are in. We must work and be diligent in anything we set our mind to to have a successful outcome. Thank you Sergio for your post!
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you have said. We need to make sure that we work hard and first prove ourselves that we a capable. I think we can get too greedy and loose sight of the benefit of just having the experience.
ReplyDeleteJamon ! ! thanks for your comment. It is always a pleasere to read your ideas :)
DeleteGreat perspective Sergio. If we don't learn to make the changes we want around us then we start relying on the successes of others. If we start down this entitlement mindset then we will never reach our personal full potential. I think our Country starts getting into problems when people on the end getting help start thinking they are entitled instead of being grateful. Then we start a vicious cycle where the givers start being less generous because of the attitude with which the help is received.
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