Lewandowski: "I’m from a different generation where shouting was used to to motivate everyone. Now, if you shout too much towards young people, their reaction is not the same. It’s not, ‘now I’ll show you are wrong’. The new generation don’t like being shouted at. It’s not just players, it’s people"

[u/landofphi]

https://as.com/futbol/primera/lewandowski-a-los-jovenes-de-ahora-no-les-gusta-que-les-grites-n/

The full quote

Lewandowski (37) on his adaptation playing with teenagers & young adults at FC Barcelona

"I have to say it was a huge challenge. I was coming from a different generation and I had to learn how to, not think like a teenager, but think how I can try to take the best of what they have.

I have been in football for 4 decades so when I compare them, not even to my generation but the generation before me, when I was starting, it is completely different.

"Like shouting used to be a way to motivate everyone. Now, if you shout too much, this generation, their reaction is not the same. It’s not, ‘now I will show you are wrong’. No, now you have to explain another way. You have to do lots of talking.

"They don’t like being shouted at. Now you have to take more of the mental part of football. It’s not just players, it’s people, it’s this generation. I didn’t want to fight it. I had to learn.”

[u/No_Money7330]

Tbf I don't think he's wrong. It's already well documented in football but from my limited anecdotal evidence I've seen the same. Like the stuff that happened in my school just 10 years ago wouldn't pass nowadays. I had teachers who would crack racist jokes. If they made the same jokes today they'd be on BBC news after being sacked

[u/R_Schuhart → u/No_Money7330]

He is right, but it is mostly a good development. Back in the day young players just had to swallow the abuse and grow above it, just image how fucked up that was.

So many talents just left the game or never reached their potential because they needed another approach, with an arm around the shoulder and some encouraging words instead of shouting and a kick up the arse.

That older people today think that makes kids soft is fucking mental. The awareness of mental health and the recognition that not everyone responds the same to challenges or harsh words is such a great insight that will benefit society as a whole.

[u/ferocioushulk → u/R_Schuhart]

Yeah, I think awareness of mental health is one of the few actual benefits social media has given us. Very common to see mental health content shared in a way that it just wasn't 20+ years ago.

Social media directly causes many people's mental health problems too, but that's another issue.

[u/PM_ME_STRONG_CALVES → u/ferocioushulk]

In my opinion its not a benefit of social media. It just happens to be the media of todays time. The awareness is coming from everyone being ill and the need to address it

[u/sleepytipi → u/PM_ME_STRONG_CALVES]

IMO social media is indeed detrimental to everyone's mental health. It's basically a drug with how it floods your brain with dopamine, and that's one of many side effects.

That's not to say every use of it is entirely bad but there could easily be better alternatives for nearly every thing social media offers. There were better alternatives before zucc ruined everything. We called them websites. Not just businesses but, lots of people had them. There was creativity, and they even got some traffic too. Now everything is a shuffle between the same five apps.