Gemma Speck

And it's

The, again, hyper competitive hamster wheel of the workplace and of opportunity.

And if you're in your 20s, you felt it.

This idea of like, oh, my goodness, I better work really hard.

I cannot switch off because if I do, I'm going to fall behind.

There aren't as many opportunities as there were 20 years ago.

I got to be the one who gets that.

You know, the people who are enduring this the most, this sense of competition and this reduction in jobs and this limited opportunities is 20 and 30 somethings.

Here's a scary fact.

A scary fact from an international well-being study published out of Canada found that the most burnt out generation and the most stressed generation about the future is 18 to 34 year olds.

98% of them are reporting at least one symptom of burnout.

2% of us are not burnt out.

The whole system is building us to make us productive and to make us output machines, which is so ironic because a major push behind the rise of AI, which is something that's making us so stressed, and the rise of technology was that it was meant to give us more free time and was meant to make our lives easier and more accessible.

And

You know, give us time off.

So why don't we have a four hour work week?

You know, why is everybody even more stressed about getting ahead and about getting stuff done?

I feel like it doesn't matter how much free time you have available at this stage.

The guilt doesn't go away because it feels like the opportunities are getting smaller and smaller.

And that's what's at the base of all of this.