The Misplaced Appetite For Novelty And Change

And now, for something completely different. In Yankelovich polling summarized in one of the research firm’s Monitor Minute bulletins, 61 percent of respondents subscribed to the statement, “I would welcome more novelty and change in my life.” A breakdown of the results by age group was at once puzzling and predictable. Seventy-one percent of the poll’s youthful “echo boomers” said they’d welcome more novelty and change in their lives, as did 66 percent of Gen Xers, 59 percent of baby boomers and 48 percent of the “matures” (i.e.,