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Perfection First, Then Change

Hello my dear happiness nerds, happy New Year! I hope you had a good start into 2022, I know I did (with the love of my life and a few friends in a chalet in the Swiss Alps). I also started 2022 in the best way I know: By learning something new. In this case, […]

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The Second Best Idea I’ve Ever Had?

Hello my dear happiness nerds, welcome back! Just a short post today, because I have an appointment soon, but I also want to get out my inspiration =) I just had the most beautiful walk through the late-fall, early-winter forest close to my home—you know, the kind of walk that opens your heart and connects […]

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Doing Good Feels Good

Hello my dear happiness nerds, welcome back! I have been busy, among others, with doing loads of fun-raising 😃 I’ve given two workshops about it and am planning to give more workshops in the future. People love the idea and it’s catching on. For those of you who don’t know: Fun-raising is the very simple […]

What Cyberpunk 2077 Has Taught Me About Happiness (Part 2)

Hello my dear happiness nerds, welcome back! In the first part I told you in quite some detail how playing the sci-fi video role playing game Cyberpunk 2077 made me (re-)realize to my core that real life is immensely beautiful and rich—even compared to the jaw-dropping world of the game. In this post I want […]

A Win-Win-Win Situation

Hey lovely happiness nerds! Part 2 of my last post is coming soon, but in the meantime I’d like to step up my fun-raising game (read about it here and here). For those who don’t know, fun-raising is the best way I know to do good, because it is a win-win-win situation: You offer a […]

Feeling Unhappy? This Is Why.

Hello my dear happiness nerds, welcome back! I was just working on a research project on so-called “mental health problems” and I thought part of it could give you some great insights into happiness. But this time framed through the lens of how things can go wrong (in the sense that they cause suffering). It’s […]

What People Get Wrong about Meditation

Hello my dear happiness nerds, welcome back! Following up on my two posts on what’s special about the present moment and how it can help lead a happier life (you find them here and here) I wanted to share a little insight from my favorite meditation app. It’s called Waking Up and its creator is […]

A Little Nugget of Poetic Wisdom

Hello my dear happiness nerds, welcome back! You probably didn’t expect to hear from me again so soon, but I just heard something amazing that I wanted to share. It’s from a podcast, where Pete Holmes interviews Heidi Gardner. If you don’t know Pete Holmes you should definitely check him out! He’s a comedian with […]

The Currency of Life

Photo by Cris Trung on Unsplash Hello my dear happiness nerds, welcome back! Those who have known me for a long time likely will be surprised about what they are going to read in this post. They know me as a rational person, a scientist and philosopher, somebody who tends to think too much. Thomas, […]

One Year of Nerding Around with You

Hello my dear happiness nerds, welcome back! Today 1 year ago I started this blog and it has been so rewarding to write for and discuss with you. All y’all showed such kindness, good manners, and genuinely intersting insights in the comments that it really moved me! But it makes sense: Almost no other fact […]