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Hello everybody, I'm Gemma Spake and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s,
the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes,
moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.
Hello everybody, welcome back to the show, welcome back to the podcast.
It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we break down the psychology of our 20s.
Today's episode is coming right to the heart of so much of our fear and our doubt in our 20s.
What if I regret the decisions I'm making right now?
Or what if I regret the decisions I'm not making?
At the heart of I think, every DM I get,
every discussion I have with you guys, the listeners, but with my friends,
on dating, on jobs, on money, moving, health,
whatever it is, at the center of all that is a deep fear of regret.
There is like this vision we sometimes have in our mind of us looking back in 30 years,
looking back at this moment and thinking, here it is, like,
This is the moment this is the decision I can pinpoint for me for when it all went wrong No doubt about it this fear of like is this the moment that I realized
like I messed up in the future that fear is so Amplified in our 20s almost counter-intuitively
because we actually often have so many opportunities and so many doors open and so little room for regret at this point and so much future ahead of ourselves,
but it's ironic,