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Ever since I‘ve been asked in my application for the Service Design Thinking Program at KIT, I‘ve been wondering about how creative I actually am. During the application I was asked, if I had done any creative work in the past. While this might be a topic of thought for many people out there, I‘ve never really thought about my relationship with creativity. The Design Thinking Program has been challenging this creative side of me for the past few months. While I‘m not yet certain if I can consider myself a creative person, I sure do work a lot of creative work. And yet it is hard to grasp for me, what being creative actually means. Our instructor in the program recommended us to watch this video by John Cleese on creativity (Transcript). Not only does he state that creativity can‘t be explained (which really eased my mind), it really helped my understanding of the topic and how to get yourself in a creative state. ...

A few years ago, Matt D’Avella posted an interview with Gregg McKeown. Gregg wrote a book about Essentialism which I remember is concept related to Minimalism. But instead of focusing on material things, it’s main topic are life activities. I have not even read this book to date, but this interview stuck with me. This year has been one of the most hectic ones of my life. I feel like this is not an exaggeration like most person’s 2022 has been the most hectic, because it was a stark contrast to prior calm covid years. Since starting my studies at KIT, so many great opportunities on personal but also on a career-related level have presented themselves to me. In cases you wonder what: ...

Hey there, welcome to my first Blog post! I will share toughts on tech, innovations and endurance sports here 👌