Gemma Speig
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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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Firstly, something for you to just think about every now and again.
Do you like everybody?
Do you?
Can you honestly say everybody in the world is your favorite person that you could like?
Can you think of nobody you don't dislike?
No.
And is that necessarily their problem?
That you don't like them?
Also no.
This is a weird exercise, but sometimes I think about the people I don't necessarily like and I force myself to consider something about them and
that other people would find positive, to remind myself that everybody has redeeming qualities, including myself, including the people I don't like.
And that really gives me a lot of freedom and just accepting that, again, sometimes it's not about me and it's not about them.
Secondly, just like you don't have to change your opinion of those people, despite what may be good about them or not, others don't necessarily have to change their opinion of you because we're not owed an explanation for why somebody does or doesn't approve of us.
If you seriously want to be liked by everybody, I think the logic follows that you have to like everybody back.
And is that something that you're willing to do?
Probably not.
I also think it's important to keep in mind the cost of being liked by everybody.
And that's like the list we've already given, right?
The self-alienation, the somewhat counterintuitive truth that being liked by everyone actually means you have fewer good friendships.
The time that you lose, the trust that you lose, especially the time that you spend being obsessive
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