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Choosing your generation?
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(06-27-2019, 02:59 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:
(03-27-2019, 06:37 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:
(03-26-2019, 10:26 AM)David Horn Wrote:
(03-26-2019, 06:40 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Is it ever an option?

I know it seems nonsensical, but for those born near the cusp, isn't choice a factor? I have been playing with the notion that generations overlap rather than having neat boundaries, so for people from these "grey areas" there must be some other factors apart from birth date.
Mark Zuckerberg and Amy Winehouse have been both born in 1984, but I see Zuckerberg as a millennial, while Amy as an Xer. From an older generation, we could point to Jimmy Carter who is more Silent-like despite being born in a supposed G.I. year.

I agree that, as a cusper, you can ally with one camp rather than the other, but that changes nothing.  If the theory holds, then the idea of a "generation" is based not on uniformity but preponderance.  

It's impossible for any generation to be pure, so all archetypes must be represented at all times.  What sets a particular generation apart from another is percentage of each architype present.  If the breakdown is Civic (40%), Artist (25%), Idealist (15%), Nomad (20%), then the generational makeup point squarely at Civic.  At the cusp, the balance between adjacent generations become much less pronounced.

Life is analog, not digital, after all. Big Grin

So you think it's basically a kind of personality type?

Then a person born with Prophetic traits in 1990 would have a problem: to be an epigone of boomers, or prototype of the new Prophets?

A prototype of the new prophets. Those types usually are flying under the radar until the 2T in older age.

I disagree that an archetype not directly associated with the generational archetype would be problematic.  In fact, the absence of alternate archetypes would be a more likely source of problems, since group-think would be universal.  That's OK if the thinking is positive, but reinforced negative thinking would be risky at best and devastating at worst.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
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Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 03-26-2019, 06:40 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by David Horn - 03-26-2019, 10:26 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 03-27-2019, 06:37 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Eric the Green - 03-27-2019, 01:47 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Ragnarök_62 - 03-28-2019, 07:13 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 04-03-2019, 08:29 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Marypoza - 03-29-2019, 09:18 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by carecare7 - 05-14-2019, 04:26 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by pbrower2a - 05-14-2019, 05:24 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Hintergrund - 05-14-2019, 09:16 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by pbrower2a - 05-15-2019, 01:10 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Hintergrund - 05-18-2019, 07:16 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Kinser79 - 05-15-2019, 12:51 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by michael_k - 05-31-2019, 06:26 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by David Horn - 06-01-2019, 08:51 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Hintergrund - 06-01-2019, 09:30 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by David Horn - 06-02-2019, 01:26 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by David Horn - 06-27-2019, 05:57 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 06-28-2019, 01:59 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by David Horn - 06-28-2019, 06:11 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by David Horn - 06-28-2019, 06:21 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 06-30-2019, 03:07 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Marypoza - 06-30-2019, 06:03 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 06-30-2019, 12:58 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 06-30-2019, 03:36 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 06-30-2019, 01:29 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Bill the Piper - 07-09-2019, 05:50 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by David Horn - 07-09-2019, 09:54 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by pbrower2a - 07-13-2019, 10:53 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Warren Dew - 07-13-2019, 01:14 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by pbrower2a - 07-02-2019, 08:58 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Hintergrund - 07-12-2019, 08:28 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Warren Dew - 07-13-2019, 07:48 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Warren Dew - 07-13-2019, 08:44 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Teejay - 11-19-2019, 03:00 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Hintergrund - 11-20-2019, 02:54 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Teejay - 11-20-2019, 04:01 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by ResidentArtist - 11-21-2019, 07:23 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Ghost - 11-21-2019, 10:00 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Teejay - 11-21-2019, 11:43 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Ghost - 11-22-2019, 12:52 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by ResidentArtist - 11-23-2019, 09:20 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Ghost - 11-23-2019, 11:59 PM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by ResidentArtist - 11-24-2019, 02:02 AM
RE: Choosing your generation? - by Ghost - 11-24-2019, 10:58 AM

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