What drives me.
2 Min.Last week Thursday I moderated the first Progress Inspiration Summit. My personal highlight was the keynote by Mark Divine – former investment banker and Navy Seal Commander, black belt holder in several martial arts, yoga instructor, government consultant, university professor, book author, entrepreneur (SEALFIT & Unbeatable Mind).
3 Min.Yesterday I held my lecture ‘Departure into the unknown’ at the Rotary Club Blankenese, Hamburg. My heart leapt as I looked from the west dome of the harbour club onto the jetty of the Landungsbrücken.
3 Min.Maybe you have experienced this too. Whenever you have to overcome yourself to do something unpleasant… and then actually do it… and then realise that yes, you are still alive – ok, maybe with a few scrapes or with a few laughs because you failed – then you have learned something and moved on a bit.
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.
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.
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.
2 Min.Adventure is like salt in the soup of life. It adds flavour.
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.
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.
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’.
2 Min.Today, I climbed on the highest artificial climbing wall in the world: Luzzone Dam, Switzerland: 165 meters.
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’.