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Why I Work on What I Work On

When we talk about business plans, we talk about very specific plans on how to start and run a business. However, before we write a business plan, shouldn’t we define for ourselves what we want to work on in life? I extensively thought about what I want to work on in life – in parts quite […]

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Value & Dividends

Explosive Potential in Value Dividend Stocks

Dear readers, My name is Marius Schober and I welcome you to my new Substack newsletter. In Value & Dividends, I’m covering undervalued growth and dividend stocks. They fall into the value category, but exhibit characteristics of growth or dividend stocks. But before we dive into the topic, I’d like to talk about value. Ultimately, […]

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Our Purpose

Our purpose? We are living on a beautiful planet among billions of stars. This makes us often philosophize about the purpose of life. Are we here solely to be? Or are we here with a greater purpose? Maybe, there is no grand purpose. Our purpose is to be a human. Being a human on planet […]

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Questioning Everything

Ever since, I’m well known for being the curious guy who is always asking the challenging and often uncomfortable questions. Questions about life, philosophy, religion, science, health, politics, or business. It may be to optimize my life, to innovate, to think outside the box, or to call bullshit and detect and fight corruption. Ultimately, I […]

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Bullshit Detector

One thing which is serving me every day in my life is my internal “bullshit-detector”. It’s a fifth sense with which I immediately sense whether a person is full of shit or whether a person is authentic and honorable. I can detect bullshit from a wide distance: By the way a person dresses, by the […]

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Sleep Schedules

There are dozens – if not hundreds – of sleep schedules online. Ranging from monophasic, biphasic to polyphasic sleep. In simple term, monophasic sleep describes the regular sleep you might be accustomed to: 8 hours of sleep per night without any naps during the day. A biphasic sleep describes a sleep pattern, where the sleep is divided […]

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Finding Really Good Books

Finding really good books is a multi-billion dollar market. Think about it for a moment: How do you find new books to read? I assume it will either be through: The best way to find a new good book is through a recommendation. You are conversing with a real person, he understands your situation, your […]

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Cold Calling for Start-up Founders

As a seasoned sales professional with over 10 years of experience, including six years in start-ups, I have seen firsthand the importance of effective sales and distribution for the success of a start-up. In fact, I believe that the main reason start-ups fail is often not due to a bad product, but rather due to […]

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Global Citizen Journalists

For the last two years, I thought about setting up a global network of citizen journalists. One journalist per country. Every journalist is reporting on what is happening in his country on a monthly basis – covering everything from problems and corruption to progress and opportunities. Today, it’s easy to recognize the problems of one’s […]

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Force and Authenticity

When you do something, there are always two ways of doing it. Either you have to force yourself, or it feels natural to you. If you force yourself to do something, then what you do is not authentic to you. People sense this inauthenticity, which makes everything you do even harder. When you really, from the core […]