“You’re so stupid” he yelled at me after I accidentally spilled my drink.

And again, “You’re such a bloody idiot! You can’t even get a cup of coffee without making a mess”…

Maybe you’re a comics fan and it’s a superhero… maybe it’s a public figure or someone from your family… or maybe you have no hero...

In his 2014 Oscar speech, Matthew McConaughey answered this question by saying his hero was himself 10 years away from now…

Someone asked me this question the other day and I really struggled to find a decent answer.

I’ve been skydiving, cliff diving, bungee jumping, swimming with sharks…

I recently discovered a passion for writing and have been doing it pretty much every day for the past 9 months 📝

But the creative juices don’t always flow and I’ve had to figure out the optimal conditions for me to access them more regularly🥤…

4320 Pull-ups in 24h

3 Pull-ups a minute (avg.) for 24h

While they are both definitely terrifying, the 3 Pull-ups a minute at least feels a bit less intimidating and way more manageable than the 4320 Pull-ups 😅…

Have you ever bought an avocado… waited for ages for it to be ripe… to then find out that it has gone off? 😭

I’ve done this so many times that I’m now very wary about buying them 🌚…

A few years ago I made the controversial decision to stop watching/reading the news. 🗞️

I found the news so depressing and could feel the negative impact it was having on my mental health. Plus it didn’t seem to be adding any real value to my life 🤷‍♂️…

Mine was the Spice Girls.

And when I was about 9 years old my mum surprised me with Spice Girls concert tickets on a school night 🤩…

A few years back, I visited my brother and his wife in the US 🇺🇸

They played this game called the Yellow Car Game.

The first one to see a yellow car was allowed to lightly punch the other on the shoulder 👊…

Alarm goes off... I know I should probably get straight out of bed and get off to a good start 🏃‍♂️

But my bed is so comfy and that snooze button is so easy to press 🛌I repeat the process as many times as possible until…

If I had a dollar for everytime someone told me they were “Really busy” at work I’d be a very rich man 💰

In a lot of corporate environments, being busy is glorified and worn as a badge of honor 🎖️

The busier you are, the harder you are working and the more important your work feels. 

It becomes a competition of who is the busiest…

Being half Danish, half English, born in France and now living in the Netherlands means that I have an unfair amount of teams to support during the Euros ⚽

Tonight however, I am left with 2: England & Denmark who will be playing each other in the Semi-finals 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿/🇩🇰

For me this means that…

A few months ago, the gyms finally opened up again in Amsterdam🏋️

I started working out regularly again and this time, I told myself that I would focus on the PROCESS and not on the OUTCOME.

I would not let results impact my motivation, I would focus only on…

When I joined Uber in late 2015, I had just missed (by about 2 weeks) the company’s free all inclusive Las Vegas trip to celebrate reaching 10 Billion in revenue.

I missed an entire week of partying in Sin City with surprise performances by Beyonce, Kygo and David Guetta. (Not bitter at all)…

I recently got back from a 2 week holiday in the south of France and despite the terrible weather forecast, I had an amazing time with loads of sun and blue sky.

Unfortunately, the three weeks preceding the holiday weren't as much fun...

In my early teens, I went for a sleep-over at one of my friends' houses. He was American and his family was quite religious so they would say grace before each meal. 

We would all hold hands around the table and say a prayer thanking the Lord for the food that was in front of us. 

I had never seen anything like this…

When I was younger I never really understood why my parents were so adamant about me making my bed and cleaning my room. And it was definitely not something I ever got good at before leaving home at 17.

As far as I was concerned it was just organised chaos, I knew where everything was and it also acted as an obstacle course in case anyone tried to attack me in my room (I wasn’t a Jiu Jitsu white belt back then)…

After one of my first promotions in the corporate world, I started in a new role and did pretty well very quickly. After 6 months to a year I was feeling very confident in this role and thought that I knew everything. 

Then weirdly as I continued to grow in competences, my confidence levels actually dropped. The more I started learning about the intricacies of my job, the more I realised how little I knew… 

… income Imposter Syndrome. 

Don’t tell my parents, but until about 4 years ago I was quite the avid party smoker. As soon as the buzz from that first drink kicked in, I would start craving the feeling of warm menthol smoke entering my lungs. 

I would regularly make the conscious decision to quit and would use my will power to say no at parties but the more I was asked if I wanted one, the harder it seemed to be to say no…

Growing up, doing well at school would generally equate to me doing well in the eyes of others. My teachers would like me more and my parents would give me more praise.

The french school system I was in was very elitist and getting into the Scientific Baccalaureat was considered “prestigious”.

Considering I didn’t have the most amazing grades, when my teachers said I could just about get in…