What happens when we become obsessed with understanding ourselves?
Jemma Sbeg is the creator of The Psychology of Your 20s, one of the world’s biggest psychology podcasts, and author of Person in Progress. Her work has helped millions of people navigate relationships, career, identity, money, loneliness and the uncertainty of being in your 20s.
But in 2026, something has changed.
We have more psychological language than ever. We know about attachment styles, trauma, nervous-system regulation, red flags and boundaries.
We can ask AI what our feelings mean, analyse our relationships and compare our lives to millions of people online.So are we actually becoming better at understanding ourselves or are we becoming better at overthinking everything?
We Discuss:
Why AI could be dangerous for Gen Z and how outsourcing our thinking could weaken creativity
Why friendship breakups can hurt just as much as romantic ones
Why everyone feels behind in life
How social media fuels comparison and insecurity
Tall Poppy Syndrome and the pressure to stay humble as an ambitious Australian
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