Gemma Speck
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6,373 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jun
Gemma Speck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's an eight to six if you include getting ready and your commute.
It's an eight to seven or eight to eight if you include overtime, maybe even longer.
And then it's the fact that you're expected to be switched on and functioning for all those hours when we know that humans can only do focused, intensive work for probably three to four hours max per day.
And so that leaves us with very, very little energy to want or even to desire to do anything else when we get home other than eat, shower, maybe watch a TV show.
Because of the fact our nine to five takes up the majority of our waking productive hours, it is very difficult to establish balance.
a personality beyond work because our motivation our energy is depleted by the monotony of the routine meaning that friendships hobbies personal goals like those are the things that get deprioritized this also has a secondary effect that i don't see many people talk about which is that as our lives become more centralized around work so does our mood so does our emotional state
In psychology, this has a name.
It's called identity fusion or role engulfment.
It's a process wherein we lose ourselves to the roles we play as that role dominates over all other facets of our sense of being.
So basically, our nine to five, if we're not careful, it doesn't just steal our hours, it steals our time.
identity.
Now, what happens if your nine to five then becomes really toxic?
What if you stop enjoying work?
Because that's fine if you're having a good time at work, but what if your boss or your coworker becomes unpleasant?
What if deadlines pile up?
There's no escaping from that when work is all you have.
And when you have nothing else beyond that, if you have experienced role engulfment, you know, your interests, your purpose, your fulfillment becomes the job and you become, you
You know what also influences this?
Definitely we get burnt out when we have too much to do.
We also struggle when we don't have enough to do.
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