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What can we do to improve our lives? Two things: 🧠💪 Aim for a healthy mind in a healthy body! I read at least 12 books and run at least 12 marathons per year just to make sure 📚🏃.

Whenever there’s a particularly interesting topic, book, or running race, I have been blogging about it extensively since 2011 on this website. The podcast is narrated versions of those posts so you can take them with you on your next run!

Episode 44: Book – Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

2nd of February · 20 Minutes

With aesthetically pleasing outer form, the content is thinly spread out over 400 pages and superficial/obvious at times. It’s lacking humor, but there are valuable insights and it makes you think. The book is worth reading for creative individuals.
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Episode 43: Book – Al Ries, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

24th of January · 14 Minutes

This book tried to find unchanging laws of marketing, but it has failed and possibly not even worked during the period of its publication in 1993. Many of the laws have been proven incorrect and certain examples like Microsoft’s certain doom are laughable
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Episode 42: Book – Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I’m Lying

23rd of January · 16 Minutes

Ryan Holiday explains how entities abuse the news cycle by inserting false info disguised as facts. He details it from personal knowledge as an online marketer.
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Episode 41: What I Have Planned For 2023 (Including a Fall of 2022 Recap)

13th of January · 28 Minutes

The year is over, a new one lies ahead. Time to reflect, analyze, improve, set goals and plans in motion. It’s my favorite time of the year and a little breather in between all the daily action.
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Episode 40: Book – Christopher McDougall & Eric Orton, Born to Run 2

8th of January · 18 Minutes

The author focuses on training methods for minimalist runners. It includes interesting info and anecdotes from the first book, but could have been a blog post.
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Episode 39: Book – David Goggins, Never Finished

23rd of December, 2022 · 18 Minutes

David Goggins, widely considered the toughest person alive, delves into his psychology in his second book. He discusses his ultra running roots, including the Leadville 100 and Moab 240, and emphasizes humility and service.
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Episode 38: Book – Napoleon Hill, Think And Grow Rich

19th of December, 2022 · 27 Minutes

This book from 1937 is partly historical document, partly a self-help business book. It revolves around building a positive mindset for achieving success, here defined simply as getting rich through values such as desire, persistence, and determination.
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Episode 37: Book – Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

25th of November, 2022 · 35 Minutes

The business book to rule all business books: published in 1989, it popularized terms and phrases such as synergy, thinking win-win, being proactive, or paradigm shifts. The twist is that the focus is divided between business and family life.
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Episode 36: Book – Ross Edgley, The World’s Fittest Book

7th of November, 2022 · 14 Minutes

Ross Edgley is looking like one of the fittest people on the planet and that’s not a mask. From world records to traveling the world to researching what the world has to offer, this guy explains physical fitness well.
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Episode 35: Questioning Everything at Templiers 104k Endurance Trail Festival

1st of November, 2022 · 33 Minutes

When something you automatically do makes you wonder why exactly that is the case, it can be a strong signal to do some more thinking about it. Maybe you’re on the right track, maybe not. Only one way to find out: go ahead and try.
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Episode 34: Book – David Kushner, Masters of Doom

24th of October, 2022 · 6 Minutes

John Romero and John Carmack created the video games Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake together. It made them millions and left a huge cultural footprint. The two and their small team were hugely driven and passionate.
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Episode 33: Summer 2022, Reflection → Courage, Recap and Outlook

18th of October, 2022 · 28 Minutes

This episode details my journey through summer of 2022, including updates on all the goals I set for myself, the rituals and intents I had built, the side projects I started, the new habit tracking, and also a lookout for the upcoming quarter.
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Episode 32: Book – Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens

14th of October, 2022 · 47 Minutes

This book tells you everything you need to know about humankind’s evolutionary success. It’s not pretty and will mess with your worldview, but in a good way. It’s time to get realistic and understand how we arrived at this point in order to improve.
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Episode 31: Going into Round Two: Cologne Marathon Sub-3

10th of October, 2022 · 21 Minutes

One of the most difficult challenges for an amateur runner is to break three hours in a marathon race. I came close once and decided to try again. This is the story of my second attempt, this time at Cologne Marathon.
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Episode 30: Book – Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

1st of October, 2022 · 19 Minutes

Written in 1936, this is the comprehensive guide to learning to behave in a way that makes other people respond more positively towards you. Yes, some people will make us angry, but showing that anger makes it worse, always. Bad title, great message.
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Episode 29: Book – Derek Sivers, How to Live

5th of September, 2022 · 17 Minutes

This book is filled to the rim with smart ideas. There is a lot of deep inspiration for your own way of living and prioritizing things in these short chapters.
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Episode 28: Book – Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

24th of August, 2022 · 8 Minutes

What is the common purpose of every company every founded? Provide people with some kind of value. Give them what they want or need. If that should change, the company must, too. You company is a playground, it can be made into anything you want it to be.
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Episode 27: New York City: Manhattan Perimeter Ultramarathon

17th of August, 2022 · 24 Minutes

I went to New York City and one of the things I did while there was to run the whole perimeter of Manhattan. 55 kilometers or 34 miles in the sun showed me a lot of different things most tourists probably won’t get to see of the city.
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Episode 26: Book – Richard P. Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

26th of July, 2022 · 8 Minutes

Nobel Prize winning physicist Feynman has lived are highly interesting and entertaining life. He saw opportunities for exploration and improvement and also just mischief everywhere and used them.
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Episode 25: Fastest Known Time for Peter Huggett on Fehmarnumrundung

21st of July, 2022 · 22 Minutes

At age 75, just recently, my beloved father-in-law died. I ran a 75 kilometer ultra marathon to remember him and say goodbye.
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Episode 24: Spring is Over, Summer is Here: Season Recap and Outlook

12th of July, 2022 · 23 Minutes

A lot has happened, sometimes to the point of overwhelm. But I’m working on it and here’s what I have learned regarding keeping all these habits, challenges, rituals, intents, goals, and of course, the Theme of the Season.
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Episode 23: Book – Nicolas Cole, The Art and Business of Online Writing

7th of July, 2022 · 22 Minutes

How to write articles which people want to click and then read until the end? There’s a science to it and Nicolas Cole has it figured out. The question is, should you always follow that advice?
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Episode 22: Quantified Teesche – An Expedition into the World of Tracking a Life

29th of June, 2022 · 19 Minutes

How would you go about that and what can you learn from tracking your life? I dive into what’s currently possible and what might be interesting to do in the future.
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Episode 21: Book – James Clear, Atomic Habits

15th of June, 2022 · 22 Minutes

Who doesn’t secretly want to be healthy, strong, disciplined, and therefore happy? James Clear explains the human behavioral science behind it very clearly!
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Episode 20: Book – Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda

29th of May, 2022 · 41 Minutes

Are you curious about the role nutrition plays in the whole of society? The consequences of our actions on our health, ethics, the climate crisis? There’s a simple solution to it, and Ed Winters explains it all.
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Episode 19: For the Record: Training for and Trying a Sub-3 Hour Marathon

17th of May, 2022 · 66 Minutes

Some people think that running is just the same every time. That’s not true, there’s lot of variation possibilities to it, for example, you can do speed training and go for a Sub-3 hour marathon. What that’s like, I’ll tell you in this episode.
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Episode 18: Grüner Ring 200: Organizing and Supporting a 200 Kilometer Running Race

16th of May, 2022 · 35 Minutes

It’s a humongous task to run for 200 kilometers straight. But organizing an event of this sort also requires quite some effort. Here you can find out how something like this can go down and what’s it like to witness it first hand.
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Episode 17: Book – Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic

13th of May, 2022 · 26 Minutes

A practical philosophy which has stood the test of time for well over 2000 years now, is Stoicism. In this book, all it’s helpful pieces of wisdom are neatly sorted by topic and explained in an easy way.
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Episode 16: Book – Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

12th of May, 2022 · 16 Minutes

A collection of the words of advice and wisdom which successful investor Naval Ravikant has put out into the world. There are a few gems in here!
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Episode 15: Book – Rou Reynolds, A Treatise on Possibility

11th of May, 2022 · 25 Minutes

We have maneuvered ourselves into a socioeconomic cul-de-sac and are facing lots of existential problems. Human behavior needs to change for us to make it through the next few hundred years, and Rou Reynolds explains it well.
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Episode 14: New Quarter, Theme, Goals, Intents! (Spring 2022)

10th of May, 2022 · 26 Minutes

The first quarter of 2022 is history. I had made a bunch of plans for it, so it’s time for a review, and an outlook about what’s coming in this next quarter.
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Episode 13: Book – Hans Rosling, Factfulness

9th of May, 2022 · 22 Minutes

The world is not as bad as we think and it’s improving in many regards. Rosling helps us understand our own biases in order to make our worldview more facts-based and therefore improve our decision making.
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Episode 12: Book – Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

5th of May, 2022 · 12 Minutes

A psychiatrist who has spend three years in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau as a Jewish prisoner writes about the mental state and the meaning of life derived from the suffering
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Episode 11: Book – Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design

2nd of May, 2022 · 11 Minutes

The type of work used to create this modern world is called design. Everything which is broken is because of bad and unethical design decisions. We’re all responsible and this book helps us realize that we need to step up and be the change.
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Episode 10: Educational Project: How to Become a Better Manager

29th of April, 2022 · 28 Minutes

Learning how to become a better manager is an exercise in trial and error for most people. But there are shortcuts, for example the brilliant book “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhou. I tried to make it more accessible and documented the process.
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Episode 9: Book – Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

28th of April, 2022 · 15 Minutes

It doesn’t have to be super tough to reach wealth and happiness in life. Morgan Housel gives us a lot of guidance on how to behave in order to feel and be content with our financial situation.
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Episode 8: Book – Patrick Lange, Becoming Ironman

27th of April, 2022 · 4 Minutes

One of the best triathletes in the world has written an autobiography. After watching his career from the outside, it’s quite interesting to learn how it felt from the inside, meaning from his own perspective.
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Episode 7: Book – Jared Beasley, In Search of Al Howie

27th of April, 2022 · 3 Minutes

Al Howie was a truly exceptional human being in many regards. His stand-out ability was long distance running and he defied what most people would think is humanly possible. But his life was tragic.
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Episode 6: Book – Robert B. Cialdini, Influence

26th of April, 2022 · 20 Minutes

A book which offers a lot of knowledge about how we make our day-to-day decisions. It’s helpful to understand and always remember its seven core principles: Reciprocity, Liking, Social Proof, Authority, Scarcity, Commitment/Consistency, and Unity.
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Episode 5: Announcement – New Book Out, The Story of my EU Marathon Runs

25th of April, 2022 · 3 Minutes

That’s right, I wrote a book! It’s about the 28.5 official marathon races I did in all capital cities of the European Union. And you can read it for free, or buy it.
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Episode 4: Book – Matze Hielscher, Die Schule meines Lebens

25th of April, 2022 · 17 Minutes

One of the most successful German podcast hosts, Matze Hielscher, has compiled the knowledge and wisdom his many guests have shared with him over the years. Why not profit from that?
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Episode 3: Book – Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life

22nd of April, 2022 · 20 Minutes

Your money or your life? It doesn’t have to be either or, if you play it wisely and listen to what Vicki Robin can teach you. This is a book summary containing her most impactful truth-bombs.
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Episode 2: My Intentions For 2022

20th of April, 2022 · 18 Minutes

What to do with the time given to us? For the last few years, I have been making and then even following concrete plans. These are my plans for 2022, especially the first quarter of it.
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Episode 1: Review of 2021

20th of April, 2022 · 30 Minutes

What an unusual year. For me it contained lots of highs and lows, and in this episode I'm going through all of them with a special emphasis of all the marathons I ran.
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Episode 0: Teesche Podcast Trailer

11th of April, 2022 · 2 Minutes

I’ve started a podcast for everyone who wants to read my blog posts but can’t find the time for it. It’s about cultivating a healthy mind in a healthy body. Enjoy!
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