Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Yesterday Chris Hipkins was named Prime Minister of New Zealand after Jacinda Ardern had announced her resignation on Tuesday last week. I was ready for an experiment and asked ChatGPT:  “Write a blogpost about the leadership qualities of Jacinda Ardern“ and here is what I got:  Jacinda Ardern is widely recognized for her strong and effective […]

2022 has been a year with many turning points. The most impressive “Zeitenwende” occurred when the war in Ukraine started in February. Again, war in Europe, only 850 km away from Berlin where I live. 30 years after the end of the so-called cold war there seems to be consensus that the world will never […]

Earlier this month I had the privilege to serve as a trainer at Date with Destiny, Tony Robbins’ signature seminar. In this 6-day seminar participants are being guided through a deeply profound process to discover their current values and mostly unconscious rules that are dominating their lives. They identify those areas that need to change, invite […]

The imposter syndrome can be loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. That sounds really horrible, doesn’t it. The impostor syndrome strikes when we feel it was pure luck that we won this important deal and not as a direct result of our hard work. Or when we feel uneasy when […]

If you have been following me for a while you have seen me taking on interim management responsibilities from time to time. I believe that leadership coaches should not just do theoretical work but practice what they “preach”. In that tradition I just finished a 14 months stint as general manager in an IT company […]

Serve to lead “Serve to lead” is actually the motto of the military academy Sandhurst and sums up the Queen’s leadership style quite effectively. Neil Jurd (OBE), author of The Leadership Book and founder of skills platform LeaderConnect wrote about the Queen: “At the heart of this ethos is the idea that leadership is an act […]

Foreword A world-class pitch for investors is not just a powerful presentation about your product or service that makes people want to buy it. Your pitch needs to make an investor fall so much in love with what you’re doing, believe in the team, the technology, the future potential and your determination to pull through, […]

Two weeks ago, the news hit the press that Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, was found guilty on four conspiracy and fraud charges for swindling her investors and is facing up to 20 years in prison. Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford drop out, founded the Biotech company in 2003 at the age of 19 […]

We talked about the Primary Question and the influence it can have on our lives in this blog before. The primary question is like an immediate unconscious reaction to things happening in your environment. Some questions are serving us and help us feel presence, love and gratitude, others remind us about our fear that we […]

In one of his recent seminars the famous life coach Tony Robbins was asked if there was a recipe to set oneself up for a magnificent life. Here is what he recommended: FEED AND CONDITION YOUR MIND Your mindset determines the quality of your life. What are your beliefs, what are you focused on, what […]