app.wakingup.com/promotions/redeem CODE Andrew
In this video, we dive into the trend of “silent walking” that has recently gained popularity among Gen Z, and how millennials have responded with snarky comments. We begin with a quote from Jonathan Swift in 1710, “Everything old is new again,” highlighting how various trends and practices from the past are being rediscovered by millennials and given a modern twist.
The video explores the concept of silent walking, its origins, and its benefits, emphasizing that it’s essentially a form of meditation and mindfulness. It questions why millennials are often quick to mock Gen Z for embracing this practice while they themselves have “rediscovered” many things from the past, such as knitting, analog music, journaling, and retro gaming.
The video also touches on the importance of meditation and offers a 30-day free trial for the Waking Up app by Sam Harris, a tool for practicing mindfulness and meditation. It concludes with a reminder that many practices and trends resurface over time, and how “everything old is new again.”
Remember to like, subscribe, and share your thoughts on whether millennials or Gen Z are taking the “L” in this scenario. The video is hosted by Andrew, providing an engaging and thought-provoking exploration of these trends and practices.
00:00 Major Details
04:04 Killing Your Mental Health
07:19 Millennial Mental Health
09:10 Its Not JUST Walking
12:39 Fake Meditation
15:22 How Meditation saved me
17:29 Roasting Millennials
19:22 This Should Bother You
19:53 Final Thoughts
18 Comments
Who won?Gen z or MIllennials?
Bro your video is so well made, deserve more recognition
"nothing is original since the wheel"
A recommendation for those interested in mindfulness meditation, a book called Emotional Alchemy by Tara Bennett-Goleman. It is easy to absorb and gives a lot of helpful tips and information on schematherapy, and mindfulness meditation
Wild that you have so little recognition. YouTube videos have not grabbed my full attention in a long time so this was refreshing. Also very interesting points that I’ve never given much thought before.
Funnily enough, for me as an autist it's a specific selection of music while walking, that has this effect. Especially in cities, the soundscape is noisy chaotic and filled with structures I am conditioned to pay attention to (e.g. voices, sirens, car horns etc.).
When I put on the right music I can sink into that different soundscape an let my mind flow freely and get in tune with myself.
Okay to preface I’m a younger millennial but an old fart about it so I’m not on TikTok.
1) my first thought when hearing what a silent walk was, was “holy shit when is the last time I went on a walk without headphones they might be on to something.” Like seriously what is the thought process that goes behind immediately making fun of it? Not one moment of folks going “wait, why do they think this is new?”
2) I was today years old when I heard someone breakdown the purpose of meditation and damn. Started meditating on and off a few years ago and you’re damn right it does help. I noticed I had been breaking out of some depressive thought spirals easier. And that started BEFORE the therapy and medication. Hell it is what got me to fully realize that therapy and medication were both necessary and possible for me.
3) what the HELL is a hot girl walk?
is gen x really the only set of people who were able to integrate entertainment technologies into our lives without triggering some sort of psychosis? you guys need to start snapping out of some of this already.
If God meant for mankind to walk, then he wouldn't have had us invent vehicles.
it seems that if something is old enough it just becomes unspoken so that new generations don't hear about it so at some point it needs to be spoken again and that's what happened here
Yea as you said, the millenials take the L.
While I think the concept of rediscovering is a thing, I also think some of the examples you give is just individual people realizing they were wrong about something.
Like the deadlift thing – surely there's been millennials that's been taught deadlifting, with questioning it and then they've just been practicing it like many people before them have. For these people, deadlifting wasn't rediscovered, it was just always a thing they practiced. And for those who did hear about deadlifting, but were told it wasn't good for them, so they never practiced it, later discovered they've been misled.
What I'm getting at is; there's a difference between rediscovering something and realizing you've been wrong, misinformed or misled about something.
Now I'm not saying this apply to silent-walking. I think that's more a case of "they were never taught about walking-meditation and had to discover it for themselves", while for millennials it was just the reality they grew up in and they probably never thought about it as "walking-meditation".
(for reference, I'm 30 and not even sure what gen that makes me. But I've heard people say I'm Gen Y or Gen Next)
For me, walking has helped ground me in reality when the world is at war.
I always listen to music in quiet time because i dont really have time to learn songs i want to learn outside of that time, as well as worrying about not experiencing as much as i can wile im alive
Finally, a GOOD trend lol
It's ironic because I'm listening to this to avoid my thoughts while I brush my teeth. I had a silent walk this morning, it took 30 minutes, and I enjoyed it. It calmed me. It's good for me, I know it is, but it's difficult getting used to it. I hate my thoughts. I always convince myself that I don't have time to take walks like that, and I end up drowning my thoughts in noise like you said. Thank you for making this video.
It's ironic because I'm listening to this to avoid my thoughts while I brush my teeth. I had a silent walk this morning, it took 30 minutes, and I enjoyed it. It calmed me. It's good for me, I know it is, but it's difficult getting used to it. I hate my thoughts. I always convince myself that I don't have time to take walks like that, and I end up drowning my thoughts in noise like you said. Thank you for making this video.
Silent walking is raw existence, where you just acknowledge your own raw existence, thoughts, feelings, and sensations.