Silent Generation ( ) Baby Boom Gen. ( ) Generation X ( ) Millennials ( ) “The Crisis” Environment - Crisis - Depression/WWII Childhood - Non-existant Archetype - Artist Characteristics -Passive -Content -Inner-directed “The High” Environment - Post War -Need to rebuild Childhood - Indulged Archetype - Prophet Characteristics -Idealism/Choice -Achievement “The Awakening” Environment - Economy struggles - “latch-key” kids Childhood -Abandoned Archetype - Nomad Characteristics -Disillusioned -Independent -Adaptable “The Unraveling” Environment - 9/11/Terrorism - Culture Wars - Technology Childhood -Protected Archetype - Hero Characteristics -Confident -Resilient -Little self-control Eras Turnings

Eras Turnings What Comes Next?

Eras – Sample Archetypes Silent Generation – The Artist Martin Luther King The Beatles

Eras – Sample Archetypes Baby Boom Generation - Prophet Steve Jobs

Eras – Sample Archetypes Generation X - Nomad Kurt Cobain Jon Stewart

Millennial Generation - YOU As a child, I was sheltered and not allowed to watch the Power Rangers or other such violent and crude television series. My parents divorced when I was two and my childhood was constantly in limbo between two separate households. I sleep next to my phone and computer, and I do not trust politicians. The morning of September 11, 2001, I was in school with my classmates. I expect to graduate college $40,000 in student debt and afterward, to move back home to live with my parents. To myself and the other eighty million Americans born between 1982 and 2000, these experiences are the norm. We are the “perma-children,” the 9/11 generation – or the “screw you generation” – but we much prefer being referred to as the Millennial Generation.

Eras – Sample Archetypes Millennial Generation - Hero Craig Kielburger Kevin Durant - confident, prefer to work in teams, goal-setters, friendly, optimistic