I think its less because of a sheltered upbringing and actually more because of the opposite. Kids are judged constantly and I think it has turned them into nervous wrecks. The fact we live in such a competitive time where messing up even something small is a big deal doesn't help.
i think you hit the nail in the head here. i feel like for millenials and gen z there has been a pervasive 'you're always competing' and needing to excel at everything mindset. that shit doesn't help anyone be the better version of themselves, it just makes them nervous.
if there was less pressure on people everyone would handle shit better and have a healthy self-esteem.
I don't know if it's everyone, but kids where I grew up were taught to get perfect grades in school and never have the slightest flaws or else you're doomed to permanent poverty and everyone will abandon you. I can easily imagine college students being worried about perfection, since the alternative is living in a trash can. Also college students are going to largely represent the more stable, wealthier sections of society. People who perhaps haven't had a lot of criticism and have a lot more to lose.
Also college students are taking out $100k loans and know that slipping up just slightly means becoming an indentured servant.
I just graduated and can definitely back this up. Even though I was generally a good student I was always afraid to read remarks on my essays, less for what it mean for my grade but what it would mean about me. One time I misphrased a confusing title in an essay for a literature class and the professor wrote back that he was glad to see I got it right at least once because I "kept choking on it most of the time". Great, now I feel like a stupid failure even if I got a decent grade on the whole thing
I think its less because of a sheltered upbringing and actually more because of the opposite. Kids are judged constantly and I think it has turned them into nervous wrecks. The fact we live in such a competitive time where messing up even something small is a big deal doesn't help.
i think you hit the nail in the head here. i feel like for millenials and gen z there has been a pervasive 'you're always competing' and needing to excel at everything mindset. that shit doesn't help anyone be the better version of themselves, it just makes them nervous.
if there was less pressure on people everyone would handle shit better and have a healthy self-esteem.
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I don't know if it's everyone, but kids where I grew up were taught to get perfect grades in school and never have the slightest flaws or else you're doomed to permanent poverty and everyone will abandon you. I can easily imagine college students being worried about perfection, since the alternative is living in a trash can. Also college students are going to largely represent the more stable, wealthier sections of society. People who perhaps haven't had a lot of criticism and have a lot more to lose.
Also college students are taking out $100k loans and know that slipping up just slightly means becoming an indentured servant.
I just graduated and can definitely back this up. Even though I was generally a good student I was always afraid to read remarks on my essays, less for what it mean for my grade but what it would mean about me. One time I misphrased a confusing title in an essay for a literature class and the professor wrote back that he was glad to see I got it right at least once because I "kept choking on it most of the time". Great, now I feel like a stupid failure even if I got a decent grade on the whole thing