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Social Justice & Empowerment
Today, I want to talk about social justice – one of my favourite topics. I had a discussion with a friend whose now 9-year-old son likes to defend others who are/might be bullied. We talked about self-righteousness, heroism and empowerment. It led me to one of my world-improve-rants, possibly being self-righteous myself. It’s all significant…
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Anarchist
A couple of months ago, I took a test to find out my political inclination and ideology. Since I’ve been teaching Policy at university, I came across that test and thought it’d be fun. It was quite detailed and took a while. In the end, I found out that I’m an anarchist. Since I assumed…
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Healing and Brainwaves
While I’m sitting on the train from Denmark where I visited my brother and his family to Hamburg, Germany, where my parents live (and I was born and raised) and I’m looking at the Danish landscape flying by, I reflect on healing and brainwaves. My brother lives with his family outside a small city in…
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Episode 36 – Wellbeing Government
When we think of government priorities, economic growth often takes centre stage. However, a growing number of countries are challenging this paradigm by placing the happiness and wellbeing of their citizens at the forefront. Bhutan, known for pioneering the concept of Gross National Happiness (GNH), set the stage for a new approach. Instead of solely…
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Episode 26 – Happiness Definition
Last season, I explored happiness definitions. I finally have developed my own one. In this episode, I unpack this happiness definition. My happiness definition has several elements: embracing challenges, creating positive moments and acknowledging negative emotions. The aim is consistent happiness, returning to positive emotions after experiencing negative ones. The first part is about embracing…
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Episode 12 – Play
Episode 12 of the Exploring Happiness podcast is all about Play. I used this article to kickstart me. Play is great because it helps relieve stress, improves brain function, boosts mind and creativity, improves relationships and makes us feels more energetic and young. Play can be extensive or just a little joke here and there.…
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Episode 10 – The Midnight Library
Episode 10 of the Exploring Happiness podcast is all about regrets. I talk about Matt Haig’s book The Midnight Library. The Midnight Library is an easy read and I found it inspiring. Spoiler alert!!! The story follows a woman, Nora, who struggles with past decisions in her life. She doesn’t see the point in continuing…
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Episode 2 – What is happiness?
Yeah, what is happiness? In this Exploring Happiness podcast episode, I’m looking at different definitions. I’m not going to come up with one single definition. I think happiness has much to it. There are different facets. Thus, I’m looking at different disciplines. I also think that happiness is sometimes bonding with people, sometimes finding hope…
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My first podcast episode
Woohoo!!! My very first podcast episode is recorded. Yes, it’s still bumpy. I had no idea what I was doing. But progress over perfection, right? It was also quite fun. I’m looking forward to recording the next one already. Unsurprisingly, my first podcast episode is an introduction. I’m introducing myself, the idea of the podcast…
