Jemma Spake
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1,071 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
Jemma Spake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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for greatness and viewing the blank slate as an opportunity for possibility, it doesn't, again, it doesn't change the reality, but it changes how you cope.
It changes how you act and it changes how you feel.
And that is really what we're trying to target.
I think it's equally valuable if you are having a lot of fear about your future to shrink down your timeline a little bit.
Instead of asking, you know, what is my life going to look like in five years?
And
being obsessively worried about controlling everything up until that five-year mark, instead of constantly asking, what's my life going to look like in 10 years?
Am I ever going to be happy?
Just zoom in a little bit.
Zoom into what you could do in the next week, what you could do this weekend that would be meaningful or productive.
What can you achieve in two months?
Rather than projecting yourself further and further into the future, then your current abilities would actually allow you to control.
And this isn't about lowering your ambition.
It's about redirecting your attention to a time frame where your actions actually have power.
This is the big thing about our anxiety about the future.
Again, it actually makes us less capable of managing the future because it keeps us focused on things that are further and further out of our reach.
Like there is very little that you can do right now that would all out guarantee how your life would look like in five or 10 years.
And getting to that point requires you to take action now.
The thing is, is that obsessively worrying about whether the action you're taking now is going to have the positive effect on your future that you want it to often counterintuitively means that we don't actually care.
take that necessary action that we know is right because we are so cognitively overwhelmed and mentally overwhelmed with the possibilities of it going wrong.
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