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All About the Quarter Life Crisis (Inspired by Emily in Paris)

Know It All

Netflix

Education, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week on Know It All, Greg Brown and Mitch Moffit from AsapSCIENCE wonder …why do we experience the whole quarter-life crisis thing? Inspired by the new season of Emily in Paris, they dig into the science behind puberty, the cultural shifts toward extended adolescence, and how things like college and major life events in our 20s - from breaking up with a partner to getting fired from a job - can wreak havoc on our sense of security and our sense of self. Hence: the quarter life crisis.

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0:00.0

The core life crisis to be 25 again. Oh, I mean, it seems good from here, but at the time it was actually quite wild. Oh God

0:12.1

I was absolutely unhinged. I did not know what was going on

0:14.8

And I was you were the most unhinged person I've ever met in my life in between 20 and 25

0:19.3

My brain wasn't developed

0:21.7

So what do you think was like the wildest riskiest things you were doing? Okay, Mitch

0:26.4

We can't talk about that on his podcast

0:28.9

Do you think you've gone through a quarter life crisis? I mean at 25 we did go to India and like do yoga

0:33.9

Be honest and not to frighten anyone. I feel like I've gone through a crisis in every decade

0:38.5

So yes, I went through a quarter life. I'm going through a third life

0:41.7

But I'm sure midlife crisis is coming up for me soon

0:44.8

Yeah, but you weren't as unhinged in your 20s

0:47.2

It is sad that I was actually a practicing high school teacher while on the weekend doing like a legal thing

0:56.8

Welcome to Netflix's know-it-all. I'm Greg Brown and I'm Mitch Moffitt

1:00.1

You might know us from YouTube or TikTok where the ASAP science guys and your hosts of this podcast and today

1:06.3

We are exploring is the quarter life crisis real maybe the answer is we just always feel like we're in crisis

1:13.6

Yeah, that's you as science ever thought of that. I feel like it's always simmering at a baseline of a 38% crisis

1:21.0

27 and a half percent on a good day. I think

1:24.0

Okay, we joke what it does feel like there are always these sort of crises and moments and maybe there is a reason for it

1:33.7

This week we watched the new season of Emily in Paris if you haven't seen it before

1:37.8

It's a show about a 20-something american who heads to Paris for a new job

1:42.4

So as one does when they decide to move to Paris in the early 20s

1:45.5

She starts off excited, but then obviously starts to struggle with her life there with the trials and tribulations of picking up your life

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