Meghan Daum

Advice for Millennials: The Case for Spacing Out

A Gen Xer on the forgotten art of being lost in thought

Meghan Daum
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6 min readMay 15, 2019

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When millennials ask me for work or life advice (and this does happen occasionally), I can feel my uselessness creeping in before I even start to answer. As member of Generation X, that oft-forgotten cohort of people born between 1966 and 1981…

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