Author John Green has advice for Gen Z to ‘shrink the empathy gap’
John Green is famous for his young, tear -oriented, young. But in addition to the lives of two young people who are emotionally charged, he adheres to more than their diseases in the best -selling books, The error in our stars, Green has become widely recognized to give its strange audience a cycle of crashing in everything from history and philosophy to the sciences and events taking place. It is known for more than two million followers on social media as an expert in historical events for centuries, global health, and modern technological landscapes.
Green is able to communicate with a wide audience because of its strange ability to understand the dark and complex facts of people – especially the young. He has a message to them.
He says to luck.
With a rise in social media, mental health decreased, a global pandemic that closed schools and isolated children with only adult age. In one of the recent analyzes, the fourth of the ages of 15 and 18 reported that they feel lonely, which may exacerbate mental health problems. Today’s adult youth may be the “anxiety generation” by social psychologist Jonathan Hydet, and young adults today. With the uncertainty that waving the horizon about the future of work, artificial intelligence, and economics, Green has a simple lesson for young people.
“I think they should read more books,” says Green. “But I am biased. This is like a music question if people should listen to music.”
However, he believes that reading is the most important tool for the development of a personality for young people.
“My condition for books is that she is shrinking the sympathy gap,” says Green. “When I read The mask in the ryeHolden Colfield is not my friend, wife, or anything, [but] It is as close as I can be another person. “
Socially isolated can be prevented from feeling sympathy for others. In the latest annual report for global happiness, a classification for the happiest countries in the world, the United States has emerged from the 20 -year -old, due largely to the discontent of American youth due to social isolation and mental health exacerbation.
A major sign of happiness, according to the report, believes in the sincere others. The lack of valuable social ties can lead to believing in good intentions more challenging. Finding a way to fill the sympathy gap, as Green says, can encourage us to communicate with people, outside the pages of the book.
“Through the process of clearly imagining and developing what is similar to being another person, we learn both to be ourselves, but we also learn what is similar to being a 8 billion people of people on this planet,” Green says.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
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2025-05-31 09:23:00
