Patience was the killer app of the 1980s.
Now I don’t want to go on a rant here, but I think that psychologically, the single biggest difference between the GenX experience in the 80s and kids today is that we had to manage our own boredom.
If you were a latchkey kid who came home to an empty house after school and had to entertain yourself, you couldn’t just doomscroll TikTok.
If you didn’t have premium cable, you could listen to music, so you likely put an album on, because the tiny dopamine bump you get from skipping to a new song somehow doesn’t rise to the level of getting up, walking over, fast forwarding, searching for a track, overshooting, backing up the tape, and so on. Today it’s a flick on a screen. It used to be a whole operation.
And so patience was a virtue, and in many very tangible ways, it’s a virtue that still pays off today.
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