16 September 2021

Juggling as a practice for creating awareness

With this article, I want to present different ideas I have been experimenting with in some of my juggling sessions. But before we dig deeper into the rabbit hole, let's create a common understanding of the following two terms: Juggling & Awareness.

18 April 2021

Standing meditation at height - a personal project

Can a regular exposure to height make the experience less subjectively intense and is it possible to reach a state of internal presence while being exposed to this external threat?

17 February 2021

Cold exposure / ice-bathing instructions

Cold exposure in this text refers only to showering or bathing below 15°C water temperature and not exposure to cold air. While ice bathing is a special part of cold exposure, the cold exposure practice can take various forms such as cold showers and bathing.

25 January 2021

Applying the Weber-Fechner law in three different Parkour movements

The Weber-Fechner law is a principle from the field of psychophysics, which deals with the interrelationships between physical stimuli and psychological experience.

15 November 2020

Adlerian Psychology

“You may know this, but well water stays at pretty much the same temperature all year round, at about 18 degrees. That is an objective number – it stays the same to everyone who measures it. But when you drink the water in the summer it seems cool and when you drink the same water in the winter it seems warm. Even though it’s the same water, at the same water 18 degrees according to the thermometer, the way it seems depends on whether it’s summer or winter.”

14 November 2020

Survivorship Bias

This lecture will introduce you to the quite common logical error, which pops up in nearly every moment in life when someone talks about the successful. Let it be music, individuals, cars, technology, books and so on. It is called survivorship bias. Wikipedia summarizes the survivorship bias as follows: In survivorship bias, the probability of success is systematically overestimated, since successful persons or conditions are more visible than unsuccessful ones. What does that mean in detail?

27 October 2020

How social media can be a threat to deep friend- and relationships

“The relationship between social media and social life is like the relationship between porn and sex.”

 - Johann Hari

14 October 2020

Love vs. autonomy

I feel like some young people nowadays (myself included) are not fearing relationships, they are fearing to give up their autonomy. The issue or question I want to bring into light is: “Does love means giving up one’s autonomy?” and then as a subsequence, “Is it worth it to give up autonomy for love?”

12 October 2020

Thoughts about alcohol in our society

After two years of abstinence from alcohol (since the end of October 2018) and after being through many negative but also positive experiences and addicted family members, I have gathered my courage to write about the extremely polarizing topic of alcohol in our modern society.