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Audiostretto 59/4/24 English

Hans-Jörg Stark

Audiostretto 59/4/24 is a daily podcast with an encouraging impulse for the day. Because many people today have little time in a day with a full agenda, this input is a maximum of 59 seconds long. So it"s analogous to a ristretto: short, strong and invigorating. 59 seconds for 24 hours!

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00:01:14

Banality

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/22

We tend to rate the complex as more impressive and the simple as more banal. For example, we may have more respect for a trained physicist than for a cleaner - because the tasks appear to be of different levels of difficulty. Yet the physicist cannot carry out his work in his laboratory if it is not clean and thoroughly cleaned - by the cleaner, for example. This could also be observed in music - but there is good illustrative material to show that simplicity does not equal banality: a trumpet has

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00:01:23

Essentials

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/21

An aircraft needs a propulsion system so that it can take off and fly. It must be powerful enough to make the entire weight of the aircraft, including the load, fly. Care is taken to make the aircraft as light as possible so that the propulsion system can be used efficiently. Nevertheless, in addition to the active part of the propulsion system, there are predominantly passive parts on the aircraft, such as the fuselage, wings, rudder, etc. From a purely rational point of view, one could now say

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00:01:18

Contentment

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/20

I was on the train the other day and was checked by a young man with a physical impairment to his arm. He did his job very professionally and seemed competent and confident - you didn't notice his disability at all. Only when he had to operate the device was he unable to use both hands and then his disability was noticeable. I thought about the fact that he seemed very content and balanced to me. And that at the same time, there are people who are completely healthy, well educated, in a stable

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00:01:11

Water fountain

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/19

There is a famous and magnificent water fountain in the lake in Geneva. I've only seen it myself in pictures and unfortunately never in person. But what certainly makes such a water feature so fascinating is the fact that it is not natural. Normally the water flows downwards and does not jump upwards into the air. Things that don't conform to the norm fascinate us. At least we think so. But if we're honest, we're not consistent here. Natural spectacles outside the norm may fascinate

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00:01:20

Childlike

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/18

We talked yesterday in the last episode of Audiostretto about simplicity and how this is sometimes more effective than a perfectly targeted solution that you won't achieve. I used the example of drawing a bird. But what if it's a completely different example, a completely different challenge? In such cases, I find it helpful to stick to the saying "How do I tell my child?" It's about formulating something in a way that a child can understand. On the one hand, this means that

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00:01:12

Simplicity

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/17

Suppose I gave you the task of drawing a bird - what would you do? Well, perhaps you are talented at drawing and then this task would not present you with any difficulties. But suppose you are not. Such a task could be stressful and in the end you might be dissatisfied and frustrated with the result because you couldn't put on paper what you had in your mind's eye. You may have tried to paint the bird as realistically as possible, but it just doesn't look very good. At least that would

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00:01:17

Shaken

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/16

When you make coffee with a portafilter, you fill it with ground coffee powder. However, before you insert the portafilter into the machine and brew the coffee, you tap the portafilter a few times on a hard surface so that the powder you have just filled in collapses and then you press it flat with a tamper. Only then is the coffee brewed. This means that nothing remains of the original height of the mountain of powder and the original volume is substantially reduced. So what originally looked like

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00:01:18

Determination

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/15

DeterminationHow easy is it for you to make decisions? Some people find it very easy to make decisions - whether they are very small ones like choosing what to wear or very big ones like deciding on a major purchase. For others it's the other way round: even choosing clothes in the morning takes an enormous amount of time and in the end a decision is made under time pressure but perhaps only with shared conviction. That's how different we are. One is not better than the other; at most a

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00:01:19

Door

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/14

From a pragmatic point of view, a door usually belongs to at least one room and provides access or exit to this room or the transition from one room to another. They can be closed or open and some can be closed with a locking mechanism so that they can only be opened if the right key is available. However, a door also has a deeper figurative meaning. In life, doors can be open or closed for decisions or implementation steps, or they can close and open again. As mentioned, doors are also places of

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00:01:19

Ripe

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/13

After the cold, dark and barren winter season, nature awakens and brings with it not only wonderful growth on the various plants, but also magnificent colours and, what's more, wonderful fruits in their own season. However, it is important to note that berries and stone fruit in particular are sometimes very sensitive to pressure. This means that you have to be very careful when picking them if you want to take them with you in containers. Careless throwing into a harvest container or too much

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00:01:20

Fire

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/12

Fire has good but also destructive properties. It can warm and thus preserve life, but it can also extinguish life through uncontrolled fire. For a fire to exist, it needs two things: combustible material and oxygen. If you remove one of the two, the fire will go out. We also know fire as an expression in the sense of a figurative comparison. The fire of passion or having an inner fire for something. In the vast majority of cases, this also has a positive connotation. And when we say that the inner

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00:01:17

Wool

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/11

I like wool. In addition to the pleasant material with its good warming effect, the context of wool is fascinating. A prime example of a win-win situation. The wool is obtained from the sheep by shearing them. This extraction benefits everyone involved and is sustainable. The wool grows back and the animal is not deprived of something it will never have again. People obtain a raw material that enables them to produce high-quality garments. The animal itself benefits from shearing, because without

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00:01:18

Honesty

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/10

We know the law of cause and effect. So when something happens - what triggers it or what are the consequences. Sometimes it's as simple as, for example, if the price of a product is too high, people buy less of it. If something is given away for free, many copies are distributed and used. But it's not always that clear. For example, what about traffic: if you expand an overloaded road network, does that relieve traffic or does it just lead to even more traffic and ultimately to congestion

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00:01:16

Itching

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/09

I woke up the other night because my eye was itching. I had a severe irritation in my eye and couldn't sleep because of it. I rubbed my eye and tried to get rid of the itching. To no avail. I realised that it was probably a small speck of dust in my eye that was affecting my whole body and preventing me from sleeping. How annoying! I had to get up, go to the bathroom, wash out my eye and after a while I was able to go back to bed and thankfully sleep. The incident reminded me of what Paul once

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00:01:20

Poseidon

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/08

In Greek mythology, Poseidon is worshipped as the god of the sea. He was a brother of Zeus. He is famously depicted with a trident, which he could apparently use to trigger earthquakes when he was in a bad mood. At that time, sailors apparently prayed to Poseidon for safe passage and even sank horses in the sea for him. When he was in a good mood, Poseidon created new islands and made the sea calm and navigable. When he was angry, he stabbed the earth with his trident, causing earthquakes, floods

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00:01:18

Moment

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/07

"One moment please!" - by this we mean: please wait a moment. We all understand what is meant: just wait a moment. But what exactly is a moment? A second? or a minute? or less than a second? In German, for example, we don't always say "one moment please" as we do in English, but "a wink please". This makes an exact definition even more difficult: what is the duration of a wink? Nobody usually asks this question and nobody would probably be interested in an answer

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00:01:18

Eye

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/06

Our visual organ, the eye, is something marvellous. Be it the sensitivity to light, which protects us from too much radiation and brightness to our detriment, or the high resolution, which allows us to see small things clearly. Provided, of course, that the eye is healthy. However, the eye is also receptive to altered information - in the best case for our benefit: magnifying glasses or other lenses and lens combinations can help our eyes to recognise small things. However, such systems can also

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00:01:21

Present

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/05

In language, we distinguish between three time periods: past, present and future. We conjugate verbs accordingly to make it clear whether something has already happened, is happening or will happen. So what concerns our lives? Isn't it the case that we are often already living in the future - in what we are planning and must not forget to organise? In grammar, the term 'present tense' is used for the present tense. This is the Latin term for our German concept of the present. I like it

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00:01:14

Front sight

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/04

A rifle usually has a kind of aiming aid when aiming at the target - the front sight. This helps the shooter to align the rifle barrel more precisely with the target before the shot is fired. This gives the shooter an extended view from the nearer part of the rifle over the front sight to the target. This line of sight is intended to increase accuracy. This also works very well and is a good idea - but only if the front sight and the rifle barrel are well adjusted. If this is not the case, no

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00:01:20

Curtain

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/03

If we want to protect ourselves from prying eyes, we hide ourselves, stand behind an opaque object or position ourselves so that we cannot be seen. This is sometimes necessary to protect our privacy. At home, we use curtains on the windows for this purpose. These can be opened if we wish or closed to protect us. Sometimes curtains not only help to protect us from prying eyes from outside, but also so that I don't have to see what's going on outside from the inside. But curtains sometimes

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