Food for thought

In the­se try­ing times, it’s more important than ever to know your values and prio­ri­ties. That said, it’s still valid to gather inspi­ra­ti­on from others and learn from the best. I try to take every encoun­ter as an opor­tu­ni­ty to grow – good things I see in peo­p­le I meet or then as well nega­ti­ve traits I reco­g­ni­se and want to get rid off. 

Pod­casts are THE cur­rent media out­let whe­re most of us take some quiet time to lis­ten to and learn. Even in a time whe­re we should­n’t tra­vel or meet heaps of peo­p­le, this is a gre­at way to expand your hori­zon. With my fri­end Kevin Rech­stei­ner I may publish mys­elf 2 pod­casts whe­re we eit­her talk about cur­rent stuff in our lives or inter­view a spe­cial guest.

As for mys­elf, I lis­ten to many dif­fe­rent pod­casts eit­her about cur­rent rese­arch and sci­ence in nutri­tion or a lot about per­so­nal deve­lo­p­ment, lea­der­ship and high per­for­mance people.

I will share every now and then some epi­so­des I par­ti­cu­lar­ly lik­ed. Today it is an  Inter­view with­Ti­an­na Bar­to­let­ta, a track and field ath­le­te from the USA, World and Olym­pic Cham­pi­on in the 100m dash and long jump. She has a remar­kab­le atti­tu­de towards suc­cess and fail­ure and ack­now­leg­des that neither of the two is final or exclu­si­ve­ly good or bad. She talks about her big­gest wins and how they fai­led to make her hap­py and com­ple­te – some­thing I can rela­te to all too well, after win­ning the Worlds in Nice 2002 myself.

The second talk is with Dr. Lau­rie San­tos from Yale Uni­ver­si­ty– they have a depart­ment of hap­pi­ness – no kidding!

Enjoy the­se valuable thoughts and peo­p­le sha­ring their wis­dom and experience.