Emma Chamberlain

Another thing, there's like an emotional element of this career where I'm being very vulnerable on camera and people are consuming that and it's a very vulnerable parasocial experience.

I think that can become at times a bit heavy and I've tried to manage my level of attachment to that.

Also, too, work-life balance.

There needs to be times where I'm detached from my work life and I have a life outside of it.

That has been incredibly challenging for me because I'm a workaholic by nature and I just want to work all the time because it makes me feel good in the moment or I think it makes me feel good, but it actually ends up burning me out really badly, hard and fast.

But I've sort of been doing that or working on that in my career in a way for the last eight years because it became clear to me very quickly that that was a necessary thing, but I didn't have a word for it.

And I think the word detachment really like, or the word detached, detaching, detached, attached, like for whatever reason, that word just clicked in my head and made it all make sense.

It made it all click.

And I feel like

it's allowed me to, I don't know, there's just like a word for it that's been really helpful.

Like, listen, there's a lot of ways that you could sort of slice this whole thing.

Do you know what I mean?

Like, there's a lot of ways that you could look at it.

Like, it's really just like age old concepts repackaged, like using the word detached, detaching, detachment.

It's really just repackaging other ideas.

Do you know what I mean?

Like it's not a brand new fresh idea to me or probably to you either.

But the reason why I wanted to talk about it today is because it has had a significant impact on me.

And it's been incredibly helpful.

And it's just sometimes all you need is just a word that like triggers a visual in your brain that just helps you solidify something in your head.