Neoliberal ideology affects the daily lives of individuals. It emphasises ongoing investment into human capital and sees education as the most important function in an individual's life. The neoliberal paradigm affects the subjects by instilling them with the mindset of constant disciplining, changing, optimising, perfecting and activating themselves. It creates active, entrepreneurial, disciplined and self-sufficient workers and citizens. The neoliberal action does not exclude young people, who are pressured into lifelong learning and training at every step. Consequently, the young people accept a strong sense of individual responsibility for their future, regardless of their gender or social class. For the most part, young people living in today’s neoliberalism believe that a good academic education is essential, so they use their free time for useful purposes. They allocate their financial resources (or of their family’s), effort and time into acquiring competences, skills and various types of knowledge. The constant competition, the desire for obtaining as much human capital as possible, the pursuit of the highest and best possible education puts them under constant stress. They see their future success or failure on the labour market as their own responsibility. Whilst striving to achieve this neoliberal ideal, however, they are faced with a variety of psychological difficulties, such as anxiety, worry, fear and doubt.
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