Gemma Speck

Hello everybody, I'm Gemma Speck and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.

Hello everybody, welcome back to the show, welcome back to the podcast.

It is so great to have you here back for another episode.

Not much chitchat this morning, guys.

Not much small talk because we have a big episode.

A big episode on something that I have been thinking about a lot recently, which is how normalized it has become to actively hate yourself and how almost hated you are online, in person, in the real world, if you say or show that you love yourself.

How in the world did we get here?

Why does that make any sense?

And to perhaps get a little bit conspiratorial on you all, who is benefiting from this?

Who is benefiting from this system of self-loathing?

Who set this all up so that self-hatred is the

It just seems to me a little bit ridiculous.

And I also personally think it's keeping a lot of us stuck in places that we don't want to be.

I've been saying this so much on the podcast recently, in so many different episodes, you can't hate yourself into a successful life.

And I thought, you know, there's only so many times I can say that before I just do a full freaking episode on it.

And today is that day.

We're going to look at the science and the psychology that proves you cannot hate yourself into a successful life and essentially just dissects where your self-hatred comes from.

and why it's lying to you.

You know, it's not going to make you humble.

It's not going to make you more successful because of that humility.