Gemma Spake

She belongs to this extremely tiny group, just 30 people under 30 every year who are deemed to be extraordinary.

And if she is calling out the lack of transparency with young people and the true stories of people who achieve these huge milestones and how it's not all that it seems, I think we should listen.

And I think we should acknowledge that the idols that we have, the visions or the views or the

pictures of success we have are probably not correct.

I think part of the pressure to be extraordinary also comes down to hustle culture.

Very obvious.

Hustle culture, this idea that we should always be on, always should be burning the midnight oil, always should be optimizing our free time is everywhere.

They villainize free time.

Time spent relaxing is time that should be spent working and pushing ourselves harder.

And there's this whole narrative of pressure is privilege.

I've been seeing more and more videos on TikTok and Instagram that are like, I can't complain when there's work to do.

I can't complain that my plate is full when I wanted to eat.

I can't complain about the pressure that I wanted.

That's this whole mentality of if you're not suffering and working hard, you're not deserving.

Even the things that are purely done for enjoyment these days,

need to be maximized.

Literally maximizing is the trend, like hobby maxing, looks maxing, life maxing, outside maxing, flow state maxing.

Like I could go on.

Everything needs to be maximized.

It's created this lingering sense that we have to be fantastic at all our hobbies.