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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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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 […]

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Christmas Week

Good morning from Tenerife! Today is another beautiful Monday. Which also means it is a new start into a new week. This week is special, as it is Christmas week. Only five days until Christmas – unbelievably how fast the time goes. We booked a flight to Germany on the 22nd. If everything goes well, we’ll […]

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I’m Back: 7-Day Fast

On the weekend, I finished a 7-day water fast. It was a necessary reset. Not only for my body. But also for me as an individual. It felt like a “goodbye” to my old me, and a “welcome” to my new best version of myself. Over the last three months, I was on the road […]

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Thoughts on Central Asia

As I am writing this, I am sitting in my hotel room in Tashkent – the vibrant and growing capital of Uzbekistan. For several years – since I worked on Chinahub, where we connected Chinese businesses and businesses along the “New Silk Road” to businesses in Germany – I am not only fascinated by Central Asia […]