I can’t help but smile when I think about a few stories, my elderly relatives shared me, especially those who grew up in the 1960s or the 70s. Everything from the music they listened to, as they approached the relationship and built their career, as if they reflect a very clear range of values.
In time, I have noticed these values from many customers, with whom I work during that era. It is fascinating how certain beliefs and priorities turn into the core and how they affect our daily interaction.
The cultural background of those decades was absolutely key. There was so much. Social movements, changes in traditional norms and explosion of new ideas about personal freedom. However, despite the turmoil, many people who have grown up during that period are absorbed into deep root values that are patient.
Here are seven of the values I notice again and again. If you have happened, you can find some of these resonance with you, and if not, it can help you understand why your parents or grandparents keep their way.
1: Hard work ethic
I noticed that many individuals who grew up in the 1960s and in the 70’s are prone to a strong sense of discipline when it comes to their career.
There is a common belief that if you keep your head, he worked hard and took an obligation, then you will be awarded. Think about people you know who practically defines their profession. They get up early, they are late to sleep and believe in the power of persistence.
I have had customers who, despite retirement age, still cannot imagine life without any structure during their day. Many of them tell me that their parents who lived in World War II or as a result were taught that good opportunities would not come easily.
This insufficient mindset often bears their relationship. Following things through difficult times can feel as second nature when you believe that unyielding devotion is the key to success.
One of my favorite quotations of Michelle Obama sums up the spirit of determination so good.
Of course, “Many of the 70’s (and yet) are rushing for a comfortable life, but that strong work ethic is often a meaningful thing for others.
2. First family thinking
Family dinners, game nights and classic road trip. These were the rituals for many children who surpassed decades ago. At that time, people often talk about how families spend real, quality time together. It was unusual for several generations to live under the same roof, or at least nearby, which created approaches.
Sometimes the feeling of loyalty was so strong that it became synonymous or obligation. That was what you did. No questions were asked. There are about this in psychology today, noting that certain formal events of the value of the youth form that remain good in adults.
It makes sense to me. If you grew up in a family where everyone looked at each other, regardless of the crisis or celebration.
I saw it with one of my last customers who struggled his desire for independence to balance his family’s feeling.
As he grew up in the 70’s, he felt almost unbroken over his old parents. We have worked to find an average path that respected the need for his personal space to respect the first value of his primary family.
3. Respect for authority
People who grew up in the 1960s and in the 70’s probably witnessed some forms of mass protests.
However, it is interesting that they also learned (from time to the parents and schools) that respected elders, community leaders and bosses non-negotiating. This can feel contradictory, but it is a double reality that many people are navigating.
On the one hand, the 60’s rebellious spirit took place, giving rise to strong movements of the most obsolete systems and social justice. On the other hand, there was still a strong tradition of listening to your parents, teachers and mentors if it was only because it was done. “
From that age, many individuals are still inner compass, which fluctuates fluctuations, to describe everything, and feel the natural right to certain numbers or institutions.
I sometimes see this tense surface at work. A child’s boomer partner can protect an advanced change, but still does not have a doubt on the established protocols. It was in the very group of thought that our main values often reflect both cultural influences and personal experience.
Thus, for those decades, you will see that mixture. Faith is respected by the government when it feels important.
4. Disturbability and clarity
When I think about individuals who are grown in the 60’s or “70s, I often depict obesity. Carpooling was trendy before it was a trend, instead of throwing them, it made clothes.
Some of that were to do the economic flow and flow of that era. Whether it was the oil crisis, it was simply necessary to make the cultural ethos, it just felt necessary.
However, everything is about to drive a pennies. There is also a pride that comes to know how to fix what is broken and reuse what is still life. I know someone who can’t be throwing glass jars without using it new for it.
He once told me that it was because his mother lived with severe ration, and nothing wasted. At my advice sessions, I have heard this practical way of thinking pours into emotional flexibility. “We do with what we have, and we are not complaining.”
Maya Angelou has a convincing quote that comes about volumes. “You can’t use creativity. The more you use. “
While he did not speak particularly about households, his words were attracted to that spirit of resources. When you are used to finding creative solutions to daily needs, it can also form a way to approach the great challenges of life.
5. Honesty as the best policy
When I talk to someone about this generation, honesty usually leads to the list of absorbing virtues. There was a lasting lesson. If you are telling the truth, you have nothing to fear.
I remember stories that they told about the mothers who could seem like a miles away, or dads who handed the fastest punishments for any kind of deceit.
In my own practice, I see how important transparency from this background for customers. They tend to put a high premium in a relationship in a relationship, both professionally and personal. It can be hearty when they feel that someone has betrayed them, because honesty is so important to how they connect with others.
The parties may say that honesty can promote deeper emotional bonds and a better conflict, which I am also emphasizing in my book. (Maybe you will read my post on how transparency will break unhealthy risk cycles.)
6. Returning to the community
For many years of age, civic engagement was a big deal. It is possible that this has been the movement of civil rights, the impending environmental awareness or even local volunteer projects.
One of my customers told me how he joined his neighbors to plant community gardens and organizing a free art show for local children. He did not see it as an activity on his own, just something responsible citizens.
To this day, many people still believe in “transfer it”. Their approach can vary some voluntary shelters, while others calmly donate resources where they can.
But the underlying value is the same. You are part of the society, and as a member of that society, you have responsibilities outside your front door.
This is reminiscent of the quote from Brene Brown. “We don’t have to do alone alone. We never meant. ” According to him, there is a message underlying collective responsibility, which mirrors the feeling of the community spirit for decades ago.
Even if you do not go on the street, the desire to support more often the desire to be more absorbed in young people.
7. emphasizing on personal responsibility
I’m big to keep up to the end, friends. If you grew up in the “60s” or in the 70’s, there is a good opportunity to greatly increase, realizing that your actions and their effects are yours.
This does not mean that you would never affect external events. But there has been a predominant faith. No matter what life throws you, you will eventually take responsibility for your decisions.
Such a thinking can be incredibly empowered. It means to see errors not as reasonable reasons, but opportunities to learn and better.
Even in my advice, I see how it can stimulate growth thinking, like Susan Cain when talking about engagement and self-consciousness. In his opinion, taking responsibility for our inner world (actions) paves the way to personal personal growth.
Personal responsibility in a relationship will help reduce accused games. I have seen the couple sharply improves their communication when both partners accept their role in conflict than fingers pointing.
Acceptance of individual responsibility may not always be easy, but it is the peculiarity of emotional maturity and health.
Final Thoughts:
Although the time has changed, the technology has pushed us in the 1960s and in the 70s of the 1970s can only dream, they have rooted values for those decades.
Hard work, the importance of the family, respect for prestige, fraud, honesty, community thinking and personal responsibility.
I hope that reflecting on these values is a little nostalgia and simplicity to those values. And if you didn’t grow up, maybe you can notice these qualities in someone else, like a parent, or a bigger mentor, and better understand how their backgrounds form their worldview.
We are all to some extent our upbringing products, but the beauty of self-development is how we prefer to keep or adapt these effects.
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