Kategorie: In English
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How to Stop Procrastinating: Trial A
It is summer. I am sitting in the sun with a cup of coffee next to my happily snoozing dog, and I feel – unhappy! What a crazy waste of a potentially perfect day of my life! And the reason for my unease is even more ridiculous: I want to go on a trip to…
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The Curse of Wild Ideas: How to Keep Momentum and Balance
While ideas are great to have, they can distract us and become difficult to manage. I wonder how to make the most of them while still getting things done!
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Should one travel in this day and age?
I love to see new places. Those can be close to home or far away. I know that a person’s time on beautiful Earth is limited, and it would be a shame to not explore what is out there to admire. However, I wonder, should one still travel internationally when we know about all its…
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To Live or to Write? Achieving the Art of Perfection
Returning after a busy week I am wondering: how to find the time to write in my life? How to balance it all?
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The weird tentacles of history
I can see how I am going to end in trouble for this post: as I have no intention of writing just a fraction of what the topic deserves, and I can’t possible add all the footnotes that would be necessary. But I want to write about the other day when I took some teenaged…
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The distortions of retrospect or do you remember COVID?
I still feel acutely the shame about a minor incident of my younger self in primary school. On the other hand, I think back on the past three years and find that all things COVID are vague and distant, just like an exhausting dream from which I woke up feeling dazed but unconnected. Why? Collective…
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Behind the Scenes @ Zurich Opera House
Behind the curtain at the Zurich Opera. In their dungeons up to four floors under the stage hundreds of artists toil away to create that spectacle that is OPERA!
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What I Would Change On Women’s Day
First note how international days are „Disadvantaged and Overlooked Day“, most often for creatures who cannot help themselves. There are all sorts of days like „Hug your librarian day,“ and so forth. I miss the „Billionaire’s Day“ or „Massive Ego Day“. „May the Fourth“ might be an exception, but then a Lightsaber changes everything. To…
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Off the leash: Meilen to Erlenbach
On Sunday, as we had nothing planned, it was perfect to take the dog and explore our surroundings. Last year, I found this book „Inno läuft frei“ that recommends walks for dogs off the leash and so we picked one of the suggested routes. We had tried that walk the weekend before, with an entourage…
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On Self-Optimisation and Personal Branding
You know how people mention ideas, which then simmer in your head, until suddenly you are hyper-aware and start seeing them everywhere? My latest case is „self-optimisation“ and „personal branding“. Hearing about it has long raised my blood pressure, but now increasingly the hair on my neck. Why? To start with, I understand that these…
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