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There have been a series of articles, including one in the Atlantic, suggesting that a new generation is on the horizon. 
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Gen Z is being passed by a new generation, and the label ring ascribed to them is Generation Alpha. This happens when we define generations based on birth year.
I have another name for this new generation but before turning to that, I want to point out the generation naming is risky business.
We need to be cautious about homogenizing individuals, failing to recognize and acknowledge the myriad of difference within a generation — gender, ethnicity, race, culture, sociology-economic status, religion, home of origin among other variables. That said, the right definition — carefully crafted — has benefits in terms of more than marketing or political fodder; naming can be tied to framing — in all its meaning. In framing, we recognize and value and identify certain critical characteristics.
It is for this reason that I have named a generation of students of all ages enrolled in school at all levels since 2001 through today and beyond (all ages of enrolled students from early childhood through adulthood). 
I have termed them Generation Trauma (Gen T for short) because this is a generation that has experienced outsized trauma that has been and is person caused and nature caused. It starts with 9/11 and those in school then may now be in post secondary education. 
We have had hurricanes and fires and school shootings and bombings; places of historic safety (Houses of Worship, marathons, movie theaters, outdoor concert venues for example) are the sites and places of vicious attacks.
The enrolled students since 9/11 have experienced trauma — as have their families. And that trauma is carried into the educational system, often in invisible backpacks. And that trauma has impacted learning, psycho-social development and health/wellness now and into the future. This generation is not based on birth years: it is premised on their being in school during decades of trauma.
My discussion of Gen T and the implications of that naming on education and our schools/colleges are explored in detail in my new book: Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door. 
It is being released in June 2020 by Columbia Teachers College Press (and is now available for pre-order through the Press (with early ebook discounts) and Amazon).
So, while we could have overlapping generations and often have, let’s not settle on Generation Alpha as the name for the current generation based on birth years; that is too facile a description and we need a broader more inclusive naming that encompasses what this generation has experienced while in school.
Hang on Gen Alphers; Generation T may be a co-equal or better descriptor.
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Singer/songwriter Natalie Jean calls for more compassion in her new LP “Where Do We Go From Here?” which dropped on Valentine’s Day.
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Haitian-American Jean envisioned her new concept record as an antidote to an increasingly divided world where love and charity are run over by narcissistic and selfish behavior.

 
While her fifteen songs passionately deal with hot-button issues like immigration, racism, gun violence, Mother Nature and climate change and where we should go from here, Jean kicks off the record with an incredibly personal tune that will hopefully shock people to take action. Jean, who recently appeared at the Grammy Awards, explains, “My intimate song ‘I Told You No’ is about the moment after being raped. I thought this was very important as I wanted to convey the emotions I went through. So, it is very personal to me.”
Honest and raw, this poignant song’s lyrics cut to the very bone of the horrifying fact that “the majority of rapes in the U.S. go unreported...and, sexual violence, and rape in particular, is considered the most under-reported violent crime.” Here are her lyrics:
“I lay still/You left me battered and bruised/filled with dread/I am only hanging, I am only hanging by a thread, by a thread.”
“Now, it’s a year later/And you’re still stuck, you’re stuck in my head/I look around every corner/I jump at every sound/I am so lost will I ever be found, will I ever be found.”
Chorus: “I told you no/But you heard yes/I fought/I screamed/I shouted out loud/You said don’t move/But I told you no, I told you no, no, no, no, no…I told you no…I told you no…”
“When I close my eyes/I see the flickering lights/It’s like I’m living in a bad dream/When I will be able to look in the mirror/And see the old me, I want to see the old me.”
—Natalie Jean’s powerful lyrics from “I Told You No” from her new LP “Where Do We Go From Here?”
 
Whoa! Ms. Jean knows the score, because she didn’t initially report her own rape, and, also like others, that wasn’t the first time she’d been sexually assaulted. Check out these awful statistics.

Over a 5-year period, an estimated 211,200 rapes and sexual assaults went unreported to police annually on average.
A National Violence Against Women Survey, based on a sample size of 8000, described the incidence of rape as 1 in 6 women.
A significant number of rapes reported to the police do not advance to prosecution...and, factoring in unreported rapes, about 5% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail.
For college students, 95% of rapes were not reported to law enforcement in 2000.
Only 26% of rapes were committed by a stranger to the victim.
Factoring in unreported rapes, about 5% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail.

The scenario depicted in her “I Told You No” did indeed come from her College days but, as with other women who have kept quiet, there were previous instances in high school. Jean honestly says:
“It was someone that I knew, but not very well. I never reported it. I was ashamed...I didn't think anyone would believe me...I was shocked...At that point in my life, I already had low self esteem. I always wanted people to like me. I questioned, whether I was deserving of this pain. I was already in a lot of pain myself. Growing up, I had a very loving family, but I never really loved myself. I thought I was ugly. Felt out of place. I was out with some friends on campus. Then, it was time to go home and I walked alone. The person grabbed me from behind. I was assaulted and the person ran off. I was able to see who it was. A week later, he apologized. I didn't even know what to say. But at that point, I could never be around him. Everyone knew him as this nice guy, but I knew different. So, I suffered through my pain. I was already a depressive and this just heightened my depression. There were many times, where I sought to end my life. But something allowed me to push through. I got into spirituality and had to learn to love myself. I am not a victim. Now, I am a lot stronger and speak my truth.”



With 5 previously released independent albums in different languages, Jean has earned over 70 various award nominations, including a 2019 Global Music Awards Medal and was a 2019 Josie Music Awards Winner. For this new album, Jean leaned on her own DNA—French, African, and Creole roots—and eclectic musical tastes. And, the record is full of pop and Americana/country, with some rock and some blues thrown in.
But why did Jean choose the powerfully evocative “ I Told You No” to kick off the record?
“I made it my first song, because I believed it to be impactful and the most shocking. I am a person who always seems to be happy and fighting the good fight. But I wanted people to be aware that there are people out there that have suffered. To not judge a book by its cover. I created this song, because I wanted others to feel what it is like to be assaulted. Some people think that it is the woman's fault—if they had just done something different or worn something different.”
Jean offers some key suggestions:

Rape/sexual assault is something that YOU should definitely report
With this song, I want to let people know that they are not alone
Be assured that there are a lot of support systems out there (some listed below)
There are people out there that understand what YOU are going through

She adds, “My overall goal is to get people to feel their own pain. And then, and this is challenging, to be more compassionate and understanding.”
Drop in on Natalie Jean on her website, and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube; and, check out her poignant new music on streaming music services, SoundCloud and Spotify. And, read a story on Natalie Jean’s new LP at Medium.
For sexual assault help in the US, call 800.656.HOPE (4673) at the National Sexual Assault Hotline. For more info, check out the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network or RAINN. In the UK, Rape Crisis England & Wales is the umbrella body for a network of independent Rape Crisis Centres. All its member Centres provide specialist support and services for victims and survivors of sexual violence.
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Last year has been a very interesting year. Not everything has gone to my plan, but everything has definitely gone to the universe's plan for me.
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Here's a quick recap:
I attended my 30th High School Reunion and reconnected with several friends I hadn't seen in person in 30 years.
My mother got diagnosed with breast cancer...and beat it.
I've watched my step-father be pulled further and further into the early stages of dementia...a veteran, ex-professor, and 290 bowler.
I relocated back to LA to take a "dream job"...that I quit 5 weeks later in a well-deserved, foul-mouthed tirade (a first in my 27-year career) ending a relationship that should have ended years prior. (That "service heart" will make you a SUCKA. Be verrrrrry careful.)
I fulfilled my dream of becoming a published author by releasing my first book...glorious imperfections and all.
I turned down numerous 6-figure job offers and took a role that was $100,000/yr less than I was making previously as research for my next book about "right-sizing" and living your best life with less. (AS I SEE IT: Volume 2: LIFE releasing Fall 2020)
I traveled to Australia and New Zealand twice and fulfilled my dream of attending the Australian Open and seeing Serena and Roger in Rod Laver Arena.
I got the opportunity to speak at Amazon HQ and Microsoft HQ and finally tell the story of why everyone who has ever ordered from Amazon owes me a small debt of gratitude.
I grew my private trīb to just under 100 EAs from 12 countries. Many of whom have gone on to start their own businesses, become EA advocates, and win awards as top EA of the year in their respective countries.
EAs from my workshops around the world just breached the $2M mark in new compensation, raises, bonuses and promotions as a result of applying what they learned in MEGA U and trībU...one eclipsing all with a +$55K/yr salary adjustment.
And I'm really looking forward to 2020 as I grow the visibility and reach of trīb + trībU, launch my passion project BounceBack, and finally resurrect my luxury candle line NIX+BOW and grow it into the lifestyle brand I've always wanted it to be. I'm also moving to Bali for a couple of months this Summer to complete my second book and use it as a home base as I travel through Australasia fulfilling a number of speaking engagements already locked in.
Life is crazy and unpredictable and fantastic at the same time. I've learned so many lessons this year, some the hard way, but all teaching me something new about myself and making me that much wiser, more resilient, and determined. I'm so grateful to have my mother still with me who is now a shining example (and advocate) of septuagenarian breast cancer ass-kicking badassery. I'm sad to see my step-father now struggling to complete even the simplest of tasks we all take for granted. I'm insanely proud of the people who've taken my workshops, applied what they learned and changed their and their family's lives for the better. I'm grateful to the Universe for showing me that sliver of light at the end of a really dark tunnel a couple of years ago that almost took my life. And for the first time in my adult life, I'm incredibly proud of myself for trusting my instincts, taking some pretty scary risks, falling a few times...but jumping right back up, dusting off, and diving back into the fight. I'm living a life that I've crafted that is right-sized for me, filled with amazing people and experiences, allows me to pay it forward, and create new, lasting memories every single day.
It took me 50 years to get it right. So those of you who might be struggling or constantly bumping your head or speeding down a path that just doesn't feel right but you feel bound to out of obligation...it's okay. It's exactly what the Universe has planned. But understand that you still have a responsibility in crafting your destiny. Life happens for you, not to you. Get your perspective together. Your attitude has the most powerful effect on your success in everything you endeavor. Once you master your attitude your world will open up. And all of the struggles you used to see as barriers or inequities or adversities will merely be lessons and "training" for the life you've always wanted to live. It takes work. And constant adjustments and patience. #realtalk But there is a pretty sweet payday at the end, I promise you. And it has nothing to do with money.
I wish the world for each of you in 2020. But it's time to focus on YOU...individually. Nothing frustrates me more than a "do-gooder" whose personal life is in complete shambles. You're impressing no one. We need to stop hiding behind good intentions and altruism designed to get "likes" and "shares" on the socials. Let 2020 be the year we truly focus on ourselves. Getting our fitness together. Seeking counseling to finally exorcise our demons. Paying off the debt that strangles us. Right-sizing our lives so that we can travel and experience new cultures. Be present with the ones who matter most. And living minimally but beautifully. And trib-ing up to make new friendships and create lasting memories with people instead of Tweeting, Instragramming, and Facebooking at them.
Time to switch shit up. No better time than the present.
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Having an internal representation that reflects reality is what we have – at least we think we have – and the whole purpose of learning is to bring our internal reality closer in line with the objective reality that exists in the world at large.
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This is a more difficult process than we realize. Since our internal reality is made up of our semantically organized store of long-term memories that contains images (moving and still), words, feelings and any other sensation that can be attached to anything that is already there, h=understanding memory is important for learning. Bringing our internal into closer alignment with reality.
Information is nothing more than information. Information does not lie within people’s brains. Once information is in your head, it becomes knowledge. We begin laying down permanent memory traces as soon as our senses become functional and spend the rest of our lives adding to and restructuring the semantic structure of what is already there. Once the information that we move from our working memory into our long-term memories through making links with the knowledge that is already there, that information becomes a part of our knowledge store.
It is important to remember that we build our own personalized long-term memory structure. We add what we experience (learn) to the structure that is already present. We add memory traces to what is already there. And, in the process, produce more memories to which incoming information can be attached. As we learn more, we have more available knowledge to which we can attach new information to. As a result, we are constantly adding to our knowledge base. Every word, image, smell, taste, feeling – everything that we move from working memory to long-term memory becomes attached, overlaid, to some other part of our knowledge base. This leads to understanding.
Understanding develops as we add to, organize, and integrate the new information that we acquire with the knowledge we have already stored in long-term memory. The more knowledge we acquire within a semantically organized family of knowledge, the greater our understanding of that family of knowledge becomes. As we expand our understanding of a subject, we align our internal reality with the objective reality of the real world – possibly. The process of embedding knowledge into an enriched understanding takes time and energy and the usual process that we engage in is to take the most important aspects of the new information (according to our judgment) and overlay something that is already there.
Aligning our internal reality with objective reality is where the entire process breaks down. The base of our knowledge is what we attach our new knowledge and so, in normal circumstances, we simply overlay our new information onto our existing knowledge base and expand our understanding of something based on what we already know and how this new information fits based on our own, internal semantic arrangement of our pre-existing knowledge. You can see where this is going. If our already stored knowledge does not really align with reality, our new information will follow that alignment. If the fundamental foundation of our understanding of something is wrong, all of our learning will simply deepen our erroneous understanding of the subject.
So, what hope do we have? How can our learning, and hence, our understanding, align with any kind of objective reality? It is impossible to have our internally constructed reality match exactly with objective reality. However, it is possible to bring that alignment closer as we mature.
So, how do we fix this problem inherent in our basic cognitive structural architecture? We can do it, but it is extremely difficult. Overlaying new knowledge onto an existing knowledge base and making permanent memory traces that ties it all together is a difficult process. What we have to do is restructure the entire foundation of our understanding of some subject. Once we restructure the foundation of our understanding, we then have to reincorporate all of our knowledge and understanding about that subject to comfortably over the new foundation. This fundamental restructuring is an order of magnitude more difficult than the difficult process of simply overlaying what we learn and tie it to what we already know.
The subjective experience of this restructuring can range from a new coat of paint – the easiest, most common, and least effective – to a complete tearing down of our understanding and rebuilding it from the deepest base to the new form of understanding, incorporating and adjusting our newly formed semantic organization to take in what we now know. Rarely done outside of formal learning structures. After all, we go to school in order to gain knowledge and understanding that reflect reality as closely as possible.
In formal education, we rely on gaining new understanding from authority figures (teachers, professors, etc.). In the process, those charged with teaching us have the responsibility of equipping us with the cognitive tools (cognitive enablers) necessary to expand our sensory input, influence our internal hierarchical structure, check our new-found knowledge and understand, and enrich our understanding by providing us with tools to manipulate and internally develop our own understanding. The foundations are laid in the early years of formal education by equipping us with a set of concrete cognitive enablers: reading, writing, basic numeracy, and basic problem-solving.
These concrete cognitive enablers allow us to bring what we learn about the concrete world and incorporate this knowledge into a sensible hierarchy. At this stage of our learning and development, all that we learn is concrete. A bacteria or virus is as concrete as a table and chairs – because your teacher told you it is.
Although the concrete cognitive enablers are abstract in and of themselves, they are not there to understand and manipulate abstract concepts. Concepts that only exist within our thinking. Simple abstract concepts can be taught, and the early learning about their very existence is an eye-opening experience for developing brains. I find it wonderfully fulfilling when I can lead a learner to the point where they discover, not only the existence of abstract entities but begin to develop the ability to manipulate them in their own right. This ability resides in the pre-frontal cortex, the final part of the brain to be fully incorporated into our brains. Although there is access to the pre-frontal cortex fairly early in a child’s development, the integration to really grasp and manipulate abstract concepts happens when the brain’s wiring (myelination) reaches a stage when the pre-frontal cortex can be fully integrated and seamlessly interact with the rest of the brain.
At this stage, in order to understand and manipulate abstract concepts, a new set of cognitive enablers must be taught and developed. Just like the concrete cognitive enablers must be taught, nurtured, and developed, abstract cognitive enablers must also be taught, nurtured, and developed. I have written extensively about the evidence that is available to let us know that this is not really done in our society. It is true that a few individuals manage to learn them and can use them all the time, but the number who can wield a full suite of abstract cognitive enablers is vanishingly small and getting smaller as our current education system develops.
Why is this important in a discussion about information -> knowledge -> understanding -> And reality? Because fundamentally restructuring a field of knowledge or subject area involves the fundamental restructuring of a part of long-term memory. This is about an abstract concept as they come. Not only thinking about our thinking (abstract) but exploring internal hierarchies and connections (abstract). In addition, the fundamental memories (understanding) upon which a hierarchy is built needs to be examined closely (abstract) and completely restructured based on new knowledge that can’t be refuted (abstract). This is a lot of understanding and manipulating abstract concepts. This takes a lot of time, energy, and well developed abstract cognitive enablers.
It is much easier to ignore and throw away or try to refute the new evidence of reality than it is to completely restructure our memories and our thinking patterns. And, this is what we normally do.
Self-correction based on evidence is one of the most important, and most difficult thinking skill that we can develop, and it is rare to find in a general sense (context-dependent learning is a whole other concept).
As a result, we have a confirmation bias which leads us to look for and incorporate new information into our already established knowledge structure. It’s easier that way and we can say “I don’t believe a lot of “research” that is out there. It keeps us comfortable and doesn’t take the energy that a wholesale restructuring would take.
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As a journalist, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of interviewing any number of fascinating athletes, players who are idols to millions, including: NBA MVPs like Kobe, Shaq and Kevin Garnett, NFL stars Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, and NHL legends like Wayne Gretzky; along with superstars turned pundits such as Troy Aikman, and Terry Bradshaw, and tennis’ John McEnroe, among dozens of others.
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They were all great—attentive, thoughtful, and funny. Like, after agreeing to sign a headshot for my mother, McEnroe “played” up to his former bad boy image and quipped, “Should I spit on it, first?” He didn’t. Funny guy!
But, the athlete who I personally idolized as a kid growing up in Wales, turns 80 on February 20, the same day that an awesome new biography produced by BT Sport Films called “Greavsie” is released.




London-born Jimmy Greaves is arguably the greatest finisher in English football history, scoring 357 goals—with nobody coming close to his record (not Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney or Gary Lineker) for goals at the top level of English football. And, this documentary tells the “tale of the rise, fall and re-birth of one of England’s greatest strikers” with rarely seen archive footage and interviews with some of the game’s biggest names. On-camera, many, like Sir Geoff Hurst who scored a hattrick to inspire England to win the World Cup in 1966, simply call him “a genius in the art of scoring goals.” And, a former teammate, Alan Mullery adds, “He was the best of his time, just like Lionel Messi in the modern day.”
High praise, indeed.
I met Greasvie, who had a mischievous twinkle in his eye that my mum adored, as a nipper when his England national team came to play Wales, and I got his autograph outside Cardiff’s Ninian Park. A couple of years later in Toronto, when his Spurs club team were playing Rangers in a friendly, Greavsie obliged with a hattrick, and then a photo with me and another autograph. Boy, was I pround!
 

 
Greavsie, who would score goals with his head or either foot, on icy or sloppy fields, was just born to score goals, and he did so for every club he represented, including nine in a short stint for Milan in Italy’s Serie A.
Football was very different back then with players not making the millions they make monthly, so they were closer to the everyday fans. The documentary reports that Greavsie loved football for the game it was and valued the link to supporters. Spurs manager Bill Nicholson encouraged his players to spend time with fans and they would drink after games at local pubs on Tottenham High Road. Graeme Rudge, one of my ex-pat pals and co-founder of LA Spurs, along with Rolfe Jones, says stories still circulate at the Bell and Hare about Greavsie’s presence.
After retiring from football too early and then going through his own personal hell including a bout of alcoholism, Greavsie returned and “reinvented himself and forged a career on TV, first as a strident pundit and then, in tandem with Liverpool and Scotland striker Ian St John, capturing the hearts of a new generation of football lovers with the Saint and Greavsie show.”




Former England striker and now Match of the Day and BT Sport anchor Gary Lineker says: “Jimmy was perhaps the first football star of TV...Football can be a bit overly serious at times, but we’ve got to remember...it’s entertainment and it’s there to be enjoyed and I think Jimmy encapsulated that perfectly. That’s something I’ve tried to take into my television career. It’s important to have light and shade and Jimmy did it perfectly.”
Veteran journalist and author Norman Giller collaborated on 20 books with Greavsie with the author recalling: “The most important collaboration was the first in 1978 when he started to beat the bottle. It was called ‘This One’s On Me,’ in which he was brutally honest in describing how he had hit rock bottom.”
Giller recently interviewed a few Spurs legends at the premier of this awesome BT film. He quotes Spurs Welsh wizard Cliff Jones as saying of Greaves: “Simply the greatest British goal scorer there has ever been,’ he said without hesitation. ‘As good as Messi, and could Lionel have done it on the mud heap pitches on which we played and with defenders like Chopper Harris and Bites-Yer-Legs Hunter allowed to kick you from behind?”
Giller also quotes Glenn ‘the god” Hoddle, one of Tottenham’s legendary playmakers, who told him: “As a mate of Jimmy’s for more than 50 years, I am also proud to play a part in the BT tribute to mark the great man’s upcoming 80th birthday on February 20. It is an emotional rollercoaster and includes many of his greatest goals and footage that will make you laugh, cry, cheer and groan. It’s a masterpiece by producer/director Tom Boswell and his BT crew.”



Super agent Terry Baker, who has known Greavsie for yonks through his booking agency, A1 Sporting Speakers, says of the BT movie: “Basically, I gave the go ahead to allow BT Sport the right to make this film, because Jimmy deserves to be remembered and because Tom Boswell has done a great job making it. ‘Greavsie’ is a great watch about a great man—my lifetime hero and my great, great friend. See the only live showing of the film with us in Stevenage on Jimmy’s 80th birthday February 20.”
One more thing that would make our hero’s day—Baker, Giller and Greavsie’s family have been pushing for him to earn a knighthood for his services to football. In fact, the Daily Mail/Sportsmail has launched a campaign for his achievements to be honoured. And, Sir Geoff Hurst concurs, saying, “He deserves recognition at this time in his life. As much for his family and friends and fans as for himself. I fully support the Mail campaign.”
Fingers crossed that the football gods look down favourably on the campaign. And, why not? As Greavsie and Giller have often said, and millions agree, “it is a funny old game”—extraordinarily so.
Check out A1 Sporting Speakers for more information on the live showing of the BT movie; listen to Norman Giller’s personal tribute in song to his longtime pal Greavsie; and, here’s more information on BT Sport Film’s “Greavsie.”
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