Niklas Göke on Medium

Something rises in emptiness.

Everything I learned about love growing up was wrong

The reason I love that story is that it highlights that most of our talking — in this case 100% — does nothing to serve our current purpose. We talk about ourselves, about others, and about things we…

Data and logic point to just one

Your emotional age is distinct from your chronological one. You can be 43 on paper but behave like a four-year-old in how you treat and communicate with others.

We can’t outpace the half-life of knowledge, but we can change how we think

Sadness is just overwhelm in disguise

In business school, I became obsessed with adopting habits. I trusted the idea that small things done consistently add up to big things in the long run.

What If You Forgot How To Forget?

The Most Dangerous Drug Is A Human Concept

And the cure for what really ails you can be found in an advertising slogan you’ve heard before

‘Structured thinking’ is about building a big answer by asking many small questions

If you’re not happy with where you are in life, it’s tempting to think you’ve simply set the wrong goals. Maybe they were too big or too small. Maybe they weren’t specific enough or you shared them too early. Maybe they weren’t all that meaningful, so it was easy to lose focus.

7 parables to focus your frantic brain

"We drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it."

How you know you handle life like an adult

“We drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.”

I remember simpler times.

We all grow, but not everyone grows up

Instructions on a life well-lived, courtesy of a 25-year-old movie