Gemma Speck

You need it.

You don't earn or deserve rest either.

You need that too.

So why does something so necessary feel so difficult to access without

guilt.

That is what we're going to get in today.

I also want to talk about this idea that laziness might not even exist as we know it and all the psychological and the social processes that have conditioned us into thinking self-worth equals output and busyness equals value because your guilt around resting is not a personal issue.

it's actually it's not that you're doing anything wrong it's there is like some crazy fascinating historical social cultural shifts that i'm going to walk us through today to explain why it is that when you take the day off when you use your sick leave when you don't do your grocery shopping straight away you feel so bad so without further ado let's jump into it

My problem with guilt-free rest, I think, became very apparent this month.

I was on a holiday with my family.

This is like dream holiday, right?

We're in Stockholm.

We're in Finland.

We're in Norway.

It's my mom's 60th birthday.

Like, amazing mom.

Shout out to Melinda.

And throughout this trip, I would have this urge often around 3 p.m.

to go back to our hotel, go back to our Airbnb, go back to wherever and work.

And like, I'm going to admit, I even did it a few times.