Gemma Spake

We always have to be gearing towards monetizing them.

We need to strive to be

extraordinarily beautiful happy fun rested successful friendly we have to have everything in order to like just be normal or especially I think the idea is like in order to be satisfied

again, partly because of how visible our lives are now.

Everything needs to be for an audience.

Everything needs to be, and you need to have the most of

the most of everything that you can get.

Everything needs to be balanced to perfection.

And I think they really start us young when it comes to this pressure.

Obviously, I'm blaming social media.

I think that this comes down to a lot more complex ideas than just that.

I have to say, if you were a gifted child or an overachiever,

As a teenager, this next bit of this episode is for you.

Because the straight A student to burnt out 20-something pipeline is so real.

I think the pressure to be extraordinary in our 20s begins with the obsession with excessively smart, talented, wonderkind-type people when we were children.

Like the accelerator programs.

the child savant, the bragging rights like our parents received.

Everybody wanted a gifted child.

And it actually ends up being a little bit of a curse.

Of course, it's only natural that our society praises and wants to celebrate intelligence and wants to celebrate being talented.