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Short impulses from psychology, leadership and everyday life – for everyone who wants to keep moving.
Self-optimization promises freedom – and often becomes a prison. Why the Romans cherished otium, the Italians still know dolce far niente, and we need to relearn the art of doing nothing. With book tips by Tom Hodgkinson.
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Both parents work full-time, both are worn out – and everything else is supposed to run smoothly on the side. Why the mental load is so exhausting, how invisible work becomes visible and why we don't have to do it all. With book tips by Eve Rodsky and Oliver Burkeman.
Read more →Achieved a lot – and still feeling empty? Why successful people in particular ask about meaning and fulfilment. With Goethe's Faust, Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and questions that help in the middle of life.
Read more →We have never had so much freedom in love – and yet relationships seem harder than ever. On inflated expectations, the search for someone better and the question: stay or go?
Read more →Those who face the darkest powers do not simply come home and carry on. What Nolan's «The Odyssey» and the ending of «The Lord of the Rings» tell us about trauma, moral injury and homecoming.
Read more →For many of us, the critical look in the mirror is part of everyday life. What Susie Orbach understood about body doubts in «Fat is a Feminist Issue» and «Bodies» – and why it doesn't always have to be love.
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Algorithms know what we like – and calculate who we are supposed to be tomorrow. On self-optimization, manipulation and the right to err, to change our minds and to start again.
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Can AI replace your friend, adviser and therapist? You might think so. And that is exactly the problem. What new studies reveal about chatbots, loneliness and real connection.
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Why life cannot be a project – and how we can be happy anyway. On self-optimization and the breath of wind, with Kohelet, Viktor Frankl and the science of happiness.
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Midlife affects men and women differently – and so do their books. A look at books that accompany the shift from performance to meaning.
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A rollercoaster of emotions. A report from the front line – with my favourite books, a programme and a good dose of humour.
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More and more rules are meant to keep us safe – yet they stifle the very thing that makes us free: judgment and responsibility. Hartmut Rosa in an SRF interview, thought through with a box of Lego.
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Summer, cool forests, birdsong – and two books about the climate crisis that won't let me go. Thoughts on knowledge, denial, Switzerland, and the courage to start small.
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"Prove who binds forever" – Schiller's advice on marriage fits disturbingly well onto the bond with a coach. On money machines, certificate addiction, and why real personal growth has no shortcut.
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Menopause is often told as a story of decline – but it's really a second puberty: a renovation of brain, feeling, and self-image. Tough, yet full of opportunity.
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Why writing a letter to yourself helps in hard times — what happiness research and psychology reveal about the healing power of writing. With a guide.
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