I was raised to believe that most arguments are temporary failures of timing rather than character assassination. That soundbite does little to soothe a raised voice mid-debate, but it points to something useful: the 70s generation, the cohort shaped by cassette mixtapes and evening news, leaned into a handful of quiet practices that reduced escalation. … Read more
There is an odd, understated competence that many people born in the 1960s carry into midlife as if it were nothing more than a habit. It is not charisma. It is not an encyclopaedic cultural reference list. It is a way of handling the small ruptures of daily life the moment they appear. Call it … Read more
There is a quiet competence you notice when you spend time with people who grew up in the 1970s. It is not indifference. It is a weathered restraint an ability to hold space without collapsing into drama. This piece argues that being raised in that decade taught a kind of emotional distance that still serves … Read more
There is a certain impatience in the faces of people born in the 1960s. It is visible in the set of an eyebrow, the micro hesitation before a smile, the way a hand lingers on a teacup. That impatience is not merely personality. It is an acquired skill. In this piece I argue that the … Read more
There is a stubborn truth living in the faces of many people born before 1980. They do not talk about motivation the way newer self help menus ask us to speak about it. They speak about showing up. They speak about finishing the job because the job needs finishing. This is not nostalgia. This is … Read more
I still meet people who shrug when you call them self starters as if the label is either too small to hold their story or a polite way to say they never took orders that mattered. There is a particular strain of restless push in those born in the 1960s that shows up not as … Read more
There is a quiet stubbornness in people who came of age in the 1970s. It is not the heroic kind that fills history books. It is the everyday kind that whispers rather than shouts. They learned to move on without reassurance because the world they inherited seldom offered comfort in neat verbal packages. This is … Read more
The people born in the 1960s built an engine inside themselves that rarely announces itself. It hums. It pushes. Sometimes it demands and sometimes it simply persists. This is not nostalgia for bell bottoms or vinyl. It is an attempt to name a pattern I keep seeing in friends clients and readers who trace their … Read more
There is a strange silence in the way many people born before 1980 talk about getting things done. Motivation used to be the flashy headline of the self help era. Now you hear less about fleeting inspiration and more about showing up, finishing what you started and the stubborn, almost unromantic craft of habit. This … Read more
I keep bumping into the same odd economy of effort when I talk to people born in the 1960s. They do not ask for applause. They do not hang their moods on compliments. They get on with things. This is not sentimental nostalgia. It is a behavioural pattern I have watched in homes factories small … Read more