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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 29: Book – Derek Sivers, How to Live

  5th of September · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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