stagnation from Erikson's developmental theory. People go through this stage when they are around 35-55 years old. Generativity means teaching and guiding the next generation, as well as caring about them. Stagnation is basically the opposite, it means being inactive with younger people and being more self-involved. In I Am, Shadyac really tries to convey that we are one, we are not separate but connected to each other. He says that sympathy is the strongest characteristic and that we were born to be a community, a democracy and to help each other. This is exactly how it should be and what generativity is all about. One important thing that Shadyac said concerns precisely the idea of ​​stagnation; when he said that if we continue to see our enemies as separate from us, then we will continue to live the same way we live now, instead of making a change. With stagnation, people don't care about the next generation, some even despise them because of the way they live, but as Shadyac said, if we continue with this separation we will never see the change we have seen.