Gemma Speck

You're a good friend.

That really forces us to focus back in on everything that society has kind of said we don't get to acknowledge.

Because if we were to acknowledge that, we would be arrogant.

We wouldn't be humble.

We would be...

I don't even know.

Again, once you interrogate this a little bit further, you kind of realize how deeply impractical it is.

It doesn't actually work.

It doesn't actually make us like ourselves.

It doesn't actually make us better people.

Who is it benefiting?

It's benefiting people who get to sell us things, get to sell us products, get to sell us surgeries that stem from a socially conditioned self-hatred.

And it benefits people who like it when you are small and don't stick up for yourself.

So I think that's kind of all I have for this episode.

I think I have a few more things, but like

I feel like I need to do a part two.

I hope this is just, as much as it's been a ranty episode, been kind of informative and persuasive that you need to get more serious and you need to be more spooky about interrupting your thoughts of self-loathing because they are not A, an accident or B, harmless.

They deeply infiltrate what we think we deserve and

how we behave, how we motivate ourselves, and how we connect with others.

And if we're not careful, especially during this formative period of our lives, they can become the entire basis of our self-belief.