# Question 6 — what do you wish younger generations knew?

- **Episode:** [222](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/222.md) (2025-08-12)
- **Type:** other
- **Tags:** generations, advice, wisdom
- **Time:** 6:15–9:06 (start 375s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/222?t=375](https://truthliesandwork.com/222?t=375)

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[6:15] Al Elliott: 6
[6:15] Leanne Elliott: Generations in the workplace. I've deleted the actual question
[6:23] Al Elliott: You've deleted it?
[6:24] Leanne Elliott: I did. There was another little thing to it. I think it was something like, What do you wish younger generations knew about older generations in the workplace?
[6:35] Al Elliott: Oh, that's kind of similar to the last one, but I, maybe this is just one of those like envious things, but I wish that, wish that people knew that it was really freaking difficult to get information and data back in the day. There used to be a couple, like there'd be whole departments whose, whose idea, whose job was just to put together spreadsheets and put together reports of people, and often you wouldn't have a clue what's going on. You know, dashboards, there's only a relatively new thing in dashboards. So I kind of wish that people knew that it was really pretty hard to make a decision back in the day, and a lot of it had to be on gut instinct, and also probably lots and lots of meetings. But that's a bit of a wishy-washy answer. Have you got a better one?
[7:20] Leanne Elliott: I think it would be for any young person who's feeling a bit overwhelmed or unsure is, I promise you, the vast majority of us have no freaking idea what we're doing
[7:35] Al Elliott: Yes
[7:35] Leanne Elliott: No idea what we're doing. We might have a slightly better idea than you do because you've got 20 years more experience, but we really, we really don't, don't have that much more of an idea. And also what I really, I think that I was, I was, I did fall into the trap of in my earlier career, particularly as a woman, perhaps when I was kind of starting my career, which would've been in the noughties, is I had this idea that, oh, people will take me seriously when I'm older. They're just not taking me serious now because I'm young. And I think that is one, I can promise you, people do not take you more seriously when you're older. They still find ways to not take you seriously if they don't want to. But I think it can feed into your sense of confidence in your ability and what you can bring. So, I think it would be to know that as a young person, you have so much value to bring to all workplace situations and ignore all the noise around Gen Z and young millennials and slacking off and blah, blah, blah. Um, we all have a lot more in common than, than you think
[8:43] Al Elliott: Yeah. And the reason why us older people look like we might have got it together is because we've had 20 years more time to make the same mistakes you're about to. And so it's not a question of us knowing more. It's a question of us having tried a lot of other things and they've not worked out. Yeah. Do you want to pick a number then?
[9:04] Leanne Elliott: I will go with number 13