I have recently promoted to a sr postion at a young age (23). I started as a junior in my 3rd year of HS and skipped college. Most of my career I've had a keep my head down and get shit done mentality, that often meant I was assigned to more solo work as that is where I thrived. Several months ago I moved cross country after a recruiter contacted me for a Sr position.

I have spent lots of time getting to know my new team, and we mesh really well, for the most part. I get along well with all the mid and sr level devs and work with them from a SME standpoint.

My issue is, juniors. We have several juniors who I need to assist, but I struggle to effectively. I can teach them how to solve something, but I can't seem to inspire them to want to solve problems. All the juniors here elect for small story point sprints with easy items, which is fine, but a junior developer should also be learning and growing. I try to get them interested in similarly sized tasks to what they are used to, but with stuff they've never done before, and it just doesn't work. Nothing gets done, nobody asks questions, and I end up having to stop by their desk to check if they're even working on the item, and most of the time, they've just mentally checked out and are on their phones. I want to inspire our juniors and help them find something they can take passion in, it helps both them and the business, but I just keep failing. The business started them out on bug fixes only, and now we are out of bugs to fix, so I want to get them involved in user stories for creating things rather than fixing things. I need to learn how to mentor and inspire juniors as obviously I am currently failing to do so.