Narcissism Epidemic: Living In The Age Of Entitlement

Narcissism Not everyone is perfect, in fact, no one is, and we all have made mistakes. However, so many people don’t like to point out children’s mistakes due to their fear of affecting their self-esteem. That’s a wrong way to raise someone or to help them with their mindset. The way the mind works is through a set of processes, which are steps that must be taken in order for the function it is producing to be accomplished successfully. “Do what’s best for Jason. I had to make me happy; I had to do what’s best for myself in every situation” (Tewnge, 2015, pg.419). These processes are related to those that society must be willing to take in order to achieve the desired goal. Younger generations, called Generation Me, develop narcissist views that did not allow for the struggle to be considered in their generation. The basis for this mindset is introduced by author

Twenge has written other books like, The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. Where she diagnoses the problem, what is narcissism, identify its causes, what kind of parents make narcissistic children? How do sites like Myspace and Facebook shape personality, document its symptoms, overconfidence leading to economic troubles, plastic surgery on the increase, people hiring fake paparazzi to look famous, and, finally, propose some treatments. The other book she wrote was about all of her research on generations, called Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable than Ever Before. It uses data from 1.3 million young people to show the real differences among generations on things like self-esteem, individualism, anxiety, and sexuality. Her works explain how so much emphasis on the self isn’t just bad for society, it’s also bad for the