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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You need to genuinely assess whether you have a vision for yourself and why you're doing this job.
One of the hardest parts of the nine to five routine isn't always the work itself, as we've been saying.
It's the feeling that your life is happening in service of something meaningless.
Psychologists call this goal incongruence.
It's when your daily actions, identity, purpose, whatever, is
It's in a state of disharmony with what you actually feel you want to do or deserve to do.
Your brain, when it has that goal in congruence, is far less able to tolerate stress, boredom, repetition, delayed gratification.
There was a 2018 study published in the journal Frontiers of Psychology, and they found that people whose jobs gave them a broader purpose in that they felt they were
They were doing some kind of greater good, or there was a greater good they were striving for, or B, gave them self-realization, basically a sense of autonomy, authenticity, self-expression.
They felt better not just about their work-life balance, but about their lives.
Does your job provide either of those two things, a broader purpose or a sense of self-fulfillment or self-realization?
You have to seriously ask yourself, like, why am I doing this job and is it a satisfying reason?
Is it because of stability?
Is it because of opportunities?
Is it because of what it allows you to do for others?
Is it because it's impressive?
Is it because it was just the first job you applied for and you happened to get it?
Is it because everybody else at your uni was going into this discipline?
You may as well follow them.
Why?
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