The Number One Reason This Generation Is Struggling: Scott Galloway | E190

If you could do something that would make you less depressed, to be successful, wouldn't you wanna take that drug every day?

You gotta tell me what it is.

So, it is- Scott Galloway. He's a public speaker and author. Marketing professor at NYU.

He's a business world rockstar.

I'm not done yet. The number of kids who see their friends every day has been cut in half in the last 10 years. The knock-on effect here is that we're producing too many of what is the most dangerous person in the world, and that is a young, broke, and alone man. They get this illusion that they have worth when they say angry, misogynistic content on social media. They become just really citizens.

Andrew Tate, the self-described misogynist.

If a woman is going out with a man, she belongs to that man.

Is Andrew Tate's message a symptom of what you've described?

100%. They're out of fucking control.

How would we go about solving this problem?

So, life gets very hard, very fast, 25 to 45. And generally speaking, these are the least happy years. And then something wonderful happens, you find joy in the mundane as you get older, and you get happier. So, I think it's helpful just to know that. When you say something stupid at a party, when you say something unkind and you're just beating yourself up, you need to forgive yourself and you need to realize what feels important in the moment isn't that important. Happiness waits for you.

What are you still working on?

I'm trying to slow time down. Time is falling off a cliff for me.

But how does one practically slow time down so that 30 years doesn't fly past?

I find that you can slow time down by-

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Wow, that's a thoughtful question. Um, raised by a single immigrant mother who lived and died a secretary. A lot of my life, you know, I think the most important thing in anyone's life is to have someone who's irrationally passionate about your well-being, and I had that. And the second thing is, I was born in California in the '60s, a white heterosexual male, which was like hittering- hitting a lottery. Uh, I got access to amazing free education. I went to UCLA and Berkeley for graduate and undergraduate degrees. Total tuition, $7,000. And not only was it accessible financially, it was accessible period. The admissions rate at UCLA when I applied was 76%. It's now 6%. And I mention my, uh, sexuality because my freshman roommate in college was born a white homosexual male and was dead of AIDS at the age of 33. So, you know, a lot of my success, whether it was free education, coming of age during the internet age, which was incredible wind in your economic sails, you know, a lot of my success is not my fault. So, the two things that I try and remember that define my start, and it was an amazing start, were one, uh, you know, someone who was irrationally passionate about my well-being and, uh, being born in America, and just being exceptionally fortunate.