386. 26 lessons I've learnt in 26 years
The Psychology of your 20s
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It's my 26th birthday, and I'm in a reflective mood. As I pass the halfway point of my 20s (and this podcast), I'm looking back at some of the lessons I've learnt so far and what I hope I learn in the next four years.
Also, the question people keep asking: will there be a Psychology of your 30s, stay tuned to the end to hear my thoughts!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jemma Spike and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:15.4 | through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. It is so great to |
| 0:35.1 | have you here. Today, we have a special edition episode. We have my |
| 0:39.7 | yearly birthday episode last year. I think last year we spoke about birthday anxiety and the year |
| 0:45.9 | before it was like the fear of getting older maybe. But today we're doing something more |
| 0:50.9 | classic. And I'm going to talk about the 26 lessons I've learned |
| 0:56.9 | from the last 26 years of life. Some of these are really practical. Others are more |
| 1:02.6 | psychological. Some are really personal. Some are just weird. But I went out for dinner with myself |
| 1:08.4 | the other night and I sat down. I brought my little notebook and I just really reflected on what I've learned. And it was rather emotional. |
| 1:15.9 | Like it was, I did have a few tears of the waiters were looking at me with. I also did have a few |
| 1:19.8 | martini. So two of those things could have contributed to each other. But this last year has |
| 1:25.1 | just been so mind-blowing. It's just been the biggest year of my life. |
| 1:29.7 | My book came out, the podcast on Netflix, moving to London. Those are just the headlines. |
| 1:35.6 | And it's like kind of hard to process sometimes. And I was, I'm so grateful and I was just |
| 1:40.3 | really reflecting on the lessons that I've gained both in the last year, but before |
| 1:45.4 | any of this happened, before I was even in my 20s when I was 17, 16, yeah, 21, things that |
| 1:53.0 | have stopped me as well from, from all those experiences. And it was actually really therapeutic |
| 1:59.4 | to just like sit down and put them on a page. |
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