All | Malte Clavin

Avoid avoidance

Learn how to use this hidden superpower

17 Feb 2023 | All, Logbook

3 Min.You have it. You hate it. You try to avoid it at all costs. It’s fear. Wait a moment, please. Don’t just click away. You might think: ‘Oh no, not now, not with me.’ That’s totally ok – that’s just your well-programmed reaction. But you do not learn anything. You just nurture your fear – instead of dissolving it – and becoming a better person. Allow me a few minutes to explain along 3 points: How can you use fear as an almost inexhaustible source of power.

Table Mountain Expedition

My life’s dream destination

26 Jan 2023 | All, Countries, Expeditions, Publications, Venezuela

29 Min.Scientists called Venezuela’s Salto Angel waterfall the eighth wonder of the world. The dreamlike, yet mystical Table Mountains inspired James Cameron for his film Avatar. And I finally fulfilled my long-cherished No. 1 travel dream on my fourth attempt: a trip to what I consider the most spectacular landscape in the world.

Table Mountain Expedition

Venezuela photo gallery

29 Dec 2022 | All, Photo galleries, Venezuela

2 Min.Scientists called Venezuela’s Salto Angel waterfall the eighth wonder of the world. The dreamlike, yet mystical table mountains inspired James Cameron for his film Avatar. And I finally fulfilled my long-cherished No. 1 travel dream on my fourth attempt: a trip to what I consider the most spectacular landscape in the world.

Of means goals and life goals

Can you make a living from it?

16 Dec 2022 | All, Logbook

2 Min.“Can you make a living from it?”
I get this question more often when it comes to my travels and publications (like this one).
“I don’t want to live without it.”
… I then answer.

Black Friday gift

My best investment advice for life

30 Nov 2022 | All, Logbook

2 Min.Here’s nothing less than my best investment advice for life. No scam, click bait, I mean it. It’s not shares, funds, real estate, valuables, crypto, NFTs etc.
It’s experiences.

Food for thought

Adventure is the salt in your life-soup

22 Nov 2022 | All, Logbook

2 Min.Adventure is like salt in the soup of life. It adds flavour.

Metaverse

Panelist at the TRILUX Roundtable on Human Performance

09 Nov 2022 | All, Logbook, Speaking

3 Min.To be there when history is being made. Today I had this opportunity as a panelist at the first hybrid roundtable of the lighting industry in the Metaverse and simultaneously in the Volkswagen Arena in Wolfsburg.

Interview with volcanologist

“At some point La Réunion will disappear”

04 Nov 2022 | All, La Reunion, Logbook

5 Min.During my trip to La Réunion, I spoke with Philippe Kowalski, the deputy director of the volcano observatory at Piton de la Fournaise.

“Fear is not an enemy. Fear is a mentor.”

Talk at Leaders Network in Hamburg

03 Nov 2022 | All, Logbook, Speaking

3 Min.Intense conversations, appreciative exchange, stimulating ideas – these were the hallmarks of the evening at Leaders Network, which I kicked off with my keynote address ‘Into the Unknown’.

An island like no other

La Reunion – Like a trip around the world in five days

22 Oct 2022 | All, Countries, La Reunion, Publications

26 Min.Where else in the world can you splash in the sea in the morning, walk in the rainforest at noon, and marvel at a desert with an active volcano in the afternoon? Reunion offers the most diverse variety of landscapes, vegetation and cultures that I know.

Luzzone Dam, Switzerland

Climbing the highest artificial route in the world

03 Oct 2022 | All, Challenges, Logbook

2 Min.Today, I climbed on the highest artificial climbing wall in the world: Luzzone Dam, Switzerland: 165 meters.

‘Three survival tools for any business expedition’

Keynote premiere at Deutsche Telekom

20 Sep 2022 | All, Logbook, Speaking

3 Min.“BE CURIOUS, BE COURAGEOUS” – this new call from Deutsche Telekom to its employees is, of course, right up my street. The Magenta Voice Program invited me to Darmstadt to give a keynote at the opening of the ‘Tribe Days’.