Success: Why are Millennials so miserable?

Or why time is the new paradigm of success

Millennials have seen the transition from the old World into the new one. Never before had a generation access to so many opportunities, plenty of options and infinite ways to create success. Then why are Millennials incapable of being happy? What is the underlying cause of a constant dissatisfaction that Millennials seem to face? Why are Millennials so miserable?

To understand this, we have to look into three different fields:

1 — The eternal pursue of goals and achievements

Millennials grew up with standards of achievement as the opportunities arose like never before. People had the chance to study, “be someone” and access to higher degrees of education, something unprecedented before. From a very young age, we were told this was our chance to do it, because our progenitors wanted to give us the chances that they themselves did not have. We were told that pursuing higher education degrees would open doors for us and, even though that was well intentioned, higher education degrees did not mean we would be happy or happier than before. Those degrees did not mean we would be doing what we love or feeling valued for our service to the community. But that’s how the story goes: we study, we get a…