Gemma Speig
speaker
1,085 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 May
Gemma Speig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not just in the US, not just in Canada, but in the UK, in Australia, in Germany, in Malaysia, in South Africa, just to name a few.
So if you are a fan of watching a podcast as you listen to it, this is your chance.
You can go and watch a video episode of the podcast right now, right this very second, just by searching The Psychology of Your 20s on your Netflix app.
app, go ahead, give it a go, see what all the fuss is about, and I sincerely hope that you enjoy it.
Today, we are talking about one of the greatest freedoms I think we can experience as human beings.
realizing that not everyone will like you and simply no longer caring.
What a beautiful thing.
I truly think the second chapter of life begins when you come to understand that you cannot be liked by everyone.
And truly, that is in fact a privilege.
It is a privilege for that to be the case.
Like most of us, I think I grew up believing that there was a direct correlation between my happiness and the more people who liked me.
The more people who found me pleasant, enjoyable, interesting, fun to be around, the more fulfilled I would be.
All of these compulsions emerge from that belief system that probably and definitely have made me actually a lot less happy.
They've probably also made me a worse friend.
I think they've made me a worse daughter, sister, person.
The more...
You experience life, and again, I'm still really at the beginning like most of you are, but I think slowly the more you experience life, the more you realize that trying to force yourself into a version that everyone finds pleasing is actually going to create so much more dissatisfaction and self-alienation than if you just truly accepted that some people aren't going to like you.
And that's just that.
So that is what I want to dissect today.
Why we find ourselves begging for the approval of others, even when we know it's not in our best interests.
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