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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Self-actualization to him was
was rather individualistic.
And he kind of took issue with how people were interpreting it the older that he got.
Ultimately, he realized that being able to be kind to others, our capacity for altruism, for empathy, to take our good fortune and pass it on, being a good community member, that is the peak of the human experience.
Not feeling accomplished, not feeling like you know yourself.
There's two words that Maslow loved to use to describe this, and they are probably two of the hardest words I will ever say on this podcast.
Are we ready?
The first is Jemen.
Oh God, I'm going to try again.
Okay.
One more time.
Jemen Schaftengefuhr.
Probably butchered it, but it's a German word.
It means the psychological health that follows from caring about others.
And the next word is bodhisattva.
It's a Buddhist notion that somebody who is fulfilled is somebody who strives for compassion towards others.
Apologies if I got those wrong.
I can never get my way around complex words.
My Australian accent makes it so hard to ever do anything that is not just like brutal, simple English.
But this idea of self-transcendence, of bodhisattva, of I'm not even going to try the German one, is something that textbooks don't include.
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