This whole website has 2 main objectives:
- Remember myself the initiatives I have gone through. My long term memory is not the best one (not even the short-term one actually) therefore having this all printed out might help me. I might have tattooed it – like Leonard in Memento (what a movie guys!) – but as long as I remember I have a website I’ll be fine with this ‘less extreme’ option
- Show everyone a little bit more about myself. Nowadays people are evaluated based on their CV or LinkedIn profile, which is in my view a great way for quick evaluations (e.g. from recruiters), but don’t really tell the story of a person. And that is what you actually want to know, right?
Hope you will enjoy the short ‘fun’ stories about my life and take away some of the key learnings that I myself am gathering. So far, there are 3 overarching tips I would emphasise to my younger self:
- be creative – and test it out! Whatever your idea is, go test it – engage a couple of friends and check in a few weeks on the market if that might work
- don’t be afraid of failure! Looks like the most mainstream tip of the 21st century, but really look at what you might eventually lose form a failure (if anything) and compare it to the benefits of doing an entrepreneurial experience
- be happy! Boy, the fuel of everything in life is your energy and a great renewable source of your energy is happiness – which is mostly under your control. Whatever happens to your life, look at the good side of it. And yes, there is always a good side. Really, what’s the point of being sad? Of course small sadness moments are unavoidable (and actually useful to perceive happiness as the flip side), but lengthening them is your choice – and there is no point in that