Simon Sinek and Amy Chan discuss why people in their twenties are dating less, blaming pandemic social skill loss and anxiety about rejection. They argue we mislabel discomfort as toxic when it's actually necessary for growth, and that avoiding rejection through doom-scrolling keeps us stuck.
I'm meeting people in their 20s who've never really had more than a couple of dates here and there. That seems to be more and more common. What's going on? And I'm asking for the people who are listening who are young, but also for the parents of, of young people.
Yeah, a lot of social skills have atrophied. Some of that is due to the pandemic. A lot of that is anxiety. And so the idea of going out in the wild at a coffee shop and approaching someone and risking rejection or someone not interested in you. There's so much anxiety of doing that. So why would I bother? I would rather just doom scroll, or I'll do this other thing that will give me a hit of dopamine. And you do that enough times, and then you just don't ever do that thing of meeting someone in person or having the conversation. And again, I do think there's a message that we need to avoid the uncomfortable feelings. Yeah. And bad feelings equals bad. They're not. You can get rejected and it's okay.
Let's double-click on that. Let's double-click on that. That is so good. Bad feelings does not mean it's bad.
