Talkin' About My and Your and Their Generations

Silent Generation.  Baby Boomers.  Gen-Xers.  Millenials.  It's easy to generalize and overlook the differences among generational cohorts.

Link to August 3 New York Times article, "A Snapshot of a Generation May Come Out Blurry".

Excerpt:    In short: Generation Y’s collective personality, if such a thing exists, is not likely to be much different from other generations’. Still, small differences may matter, and there is some agreement in findings from psychologists on both sides of this debate. In his own research, Dr. Terracciano has found a slight decrease in trust over the generations and a slight increase in a something called “ascendancy,” or “competence” — a self-professed confidence in getting things done.

This is a gem.