Gareth Southgate, "Why do so many young men feel lost, isolated or without hope?"
"From a young age boys need to fail often and learn fast"
"Falling off a bike, splitting up with friends, messing up exams, maybe even missing a penalty"
"These are the moments that test belief and build resilience"
"From a young age boys need to fail often and learn fast"
"Falling off a bike, splitting up with friends, messing up exams, maybe even missing a penalty"
"These are the moments that test belief and build resilience"
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Had time for him until he quoted this “fail often, learn fast” business bullshit mantra.
Toxic in its own way.
20 yrs ago the NHS noticed an uptick in 20+ year olds having silly accidents with kitchen knives, ladders etc. They realised it was because parents were over protecting their children.
Yeah.. I know a few of these “good companies” too.
Also.. the learning aspect.
It's life and how we deal with it.
The ones who are on a “golden conveyor” to the top, fail at the smallest of hurdles
The second part is cultural. The Tates are just miserable and uncool. Boys need more fun and cool role models (like me).
It's really difficult when good jobs are still reserved for the same old families' sons and daughters and progression through the system is impossible
It’s okay to show emotion and it’s not a weakness
We should teach and lead by example in learning to care, act respectfully, regardless of gender.
I could go on, but a lot of it comes down to having a reductive, restrictive view of what it means to be a man, and policing it for other men. Men need each other’s support to fix it
A hyper-individualistic & predatory culture.
• "Careers" are replaced with dead-end jobs with starvation wages.
• Automation is leaving people unemployed.
• Skyrocketing rent is leaving people homeless.
• Parents no longer have the energy to take care of their children.
• Politicians clamour for child labour.
• Public education is hollowed out.
Government inspectors are too few to do their jobs, corporations openly break the law.
And the corporate owned politicians cry about foreigners and minorities.
Thatcher & Reagan, the conditions of the commoner has been worse and worse with each decade since.
Hell, Trump's plans for concentration camps for Latin Americans come from Reagan as well.
All dismantled.
Alone you can do nothing while you are driven to exhaustion from overwork & rising living costs.
Alone, you are nothing.
We need each other.
Whilst manfluencers shout at men to push away friends, family and neighbours.
Individualism hurts.
In a group of kids you learn politics, how to spot the bullshitter, how to cope with the teasing when you do or say...