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What"s Wrong With This Place?

This podcast tries to go behind some of the problems and silly things that are keeping us from making the world better, and living better lives.We’ll explore the hidden, invisible and often unexpected structures and peculiar drivers shaping our world. Revealing deeper mechanisms, and underlying and sometimes surprising forces that you didn’t even think had a role to play.This podcast will be your weekly dose of new and fresh perspectives, insight, thought experiments and hopefully new ways of

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#26 The 5 biggest problems in the world right now...

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2026/01/01

The finale episode in season 1 of this podcast!Here is my take on the 5 biggest problems in the world right now. With an emphasis on the biggest problem of them all.Since I will be referring to a lot of the content, points and arguments from the previous episodes, you will get the most out of this final episode if you have listened to many of the previous episodes.… let’s dig in!

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#25 Too gentle to be real or too nasty to be kind?...

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2025/12/14

How do you approach other people? Ruthless or polite?Too nasty or too nice?Both approaches create distance between us.Ruthless is obviously hurtful - but too polite or too nice keeps us from the interesting space that lives close to our personal limits and boundaries. But it is in this space all the interesting authentic human stuff between us happens! It's about finding the middle path. In this episode I will take you through: The comfort zone, Hans Christian Andersen, authentic human behavior,

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#24 Lack of human originality and authenticity

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2025/11/30

Are AI-tools making us more creative or are we outsourcing our creativity to them?The many AI-tools around us have been touted as creative abundance tools, but in fact, they are reducing our ability to be creative and original - and they will deprive us more and more of the human originality and authenticity that we carry with us in our human edge, the human peculiarities and quirky subtleties.The focus on quick and safe profit and the focus on the end result and not the process will add to the

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36:06

#23 Too-Much-Ness

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2025/11/16

The world today is full of so many things, options, distractions, choices, products, inputs and other stuff that tries to get our attention. All this, and more, is the overwhelming “too-much-ness” that swamps the world around us. It exhausts our mental energy, it ruins many simple human pleasures and it is currently breeding a young generation of people who are getting a sub-optimal emotional foundation in order to connect as friends or even romantically with others.In this episode I will take you

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36:10

#22 When we don’t ask “how?”

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2025/11/02

Statistics, gossip from your friends, scientific articles, YouTube videos, influencers, the media, podcasts and many more - all of these constantly give you information that might be true, might not be true, or something in between.No matter what - these pieces of information are going to shape your mind, just like a bar of chocolate is going to shape your belly. And you will try to fight against some of this information. But not always because the information is wrong. Most likely because it

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#21 Why predicting the future creates happiness

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2025/10/19

Trying to predict the future is such an intertwined ability in us humans. An ability and a focus that permeates more of our lives than we think.The ability and the focus we have on predicting the future, is very much connected to our happiness. The future is just a collection of now-moments that are yet to come. And by being able to predict it, we pull in the future so that it becomes a mere extension of the present moment. Predicting the future comes from our intelligence, the ability to spot the

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#20 The Fuzzy Now-Moment! Why we don’t understand the...

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2025/10/05

The present or the “now” is a fuzzy and fleeting moment that hits us so fast.Many people try to live in the moment, the present, the now. But we often live just as much in the now after it’s over, than we do in it, because we define what happened in the now-moment afterwards - and if you live so simple that nothing new ever happens to you, then you are just living unauthentically backwards in the present.Hence the words of Kierkegaard: “We live life forwards, but understand life backwards”.Let’s

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#19 Why is Denmark one of the happiest countries in...

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2025/09/21

In this episode I will take you behind the curtain, and give you my in-depth analysis of why Denmark is one of the happiest countries in the world. What’s in the secret sauce?There are so many layers of reasons, causes and values that we never talk about that all contribute to the larger explanation behind Danish happiness - and I want, as a native Danish person, to try and give you these invisible insights. Maybe inspiration for others?And not only will we explore the more hidden reasons behind

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38:53

#18 Opinions, heuristics and reasoning - the good and...

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2025/09/07

It’s said that “opinions are like assholes - everybody has one”. But honestly, we often don’t just have one.The question is not if we have opinions or not. The question is how we defend them and do we see them as an intricate part of ourselves?In this episode we are going deep into something profoundly human. I will take you through the quirks of opinions, reasoning and heuristics. Why do we reason the way we do? The benefits and the drawbacks. The defense we build up around our opinions. The pride

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#17 The 7 death blows against religion - and why we...

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2025/08/24

The podcast has come to religion! The greatest conflict and war starter of them all.In this episode I give my 7 death blows to religion - the 7 reasons why I think religion is useless, why I am not religious, and why we are all atheists.Religion not only has a track record of being an accomplice to many wars, conflicts and lack of understanding during the years, but it has also tried to fill out a seemingly empty space in us humans, that we don’t need religion or gods for anymore.In this episode I

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#16 Great deeds. And their invisible importance

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2025/08/10

We have all seen or maybe even done great deeds before.But what are they exactly and what are they good for?In this episode I will make the case that we need to do more great deeds, and what kind of mechanism or role they play in creating a good life.We will cross topics like computers, sports, Trump and politics, breaking bad group dynamics, taking or giving credit, game theory, praising people, cooperating, Santa Claus and Tit for Tat.You are in for a treat… or a deed.

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#15 The one thing that could help most against...

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2025/07/27

The first best advice on how to reduce climate change the most, is also an advice that taps right into living a good life.Instead of stopping doing things that we actually like to do - in order to reduce climate change - we should instead focus on reducing or removing all the things that we don’t need or wouldn’t miss if they weren’t here. But these things are almost impossible to barricade in a climate demonstration.In this episode I will take you to the cross roads where actions that lead to

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35:52

#14 Meaning? How ‘meaning’ affects our lives, and...

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2025/07/13

You are not going to get the answer for: “What is the meaning of life?” And when you hear this episode, you will know why.‘Meaning’ is a powerful concept that fills our lives in almost every thinkable way. Perhaps even in ways you didn’t imagine.‘Meaning’ is a solid part of the foundation for a good life, but it also has a dark side.In this episode I will take you on an adventurous and ‘meaningful’ tour of the word ‘meaning’ and discover the quirks of how the concept of ‘meaning’ fills our lives -

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#13 When words become labels of mass destruction

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2025/06/29

Words can either be used to better understand the world and the people around us, and to make it easier to conceptualize abstract concepts or feelings.But words can also be used to disgrace, belittle or break the people we don’t share the same world view with.In this episode I will take you through the quirky and powerful world of words, and give examples on how words differ from country to country and how they can “make or break”. Create understanding or smear.I will take you through everything

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#12 Creativity. Understanding the basic axioms of...

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2025/06/15

What is creativity? And what keeps us from being more creative?Creativity plays a natural part in a good and beautiful life.In this episode I will take you through the 4 axioms/rules of creativity.When you understand these 4 axioms, you will understand the nature of creativity, and be able to appreciate and better handle the mechanisms behind it.This tour into the fuzzy foundation of creativity will take us through riddles, thought experiments, biases, creativity tests, economic incentives, creative

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#11 When societies don’t invest in science

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2025/06/01

A well nourished ecosystem around science beginning with the early school system, the high shool, up to university and the proper funding and attention to science at the high academic levels is one of the backbones of creating wealth and prosperity in a society.Science can make smaller countries and societies punch above their weight class - but what happens when societies don't invest in science, and why don't they?In this episode I will take you through Nobel prizes as the indicator for

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#10 What is hygge? And why the world needs more of it.

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2025/05/18

Hygge is a safe and comfortable atmosphere of being together with other people, connecting and enjoying the simple pleasures in life. The Danish concept of hygge is so intertwined and deeply woven into the fabric of Danish culture and language - but hygge can be applied in so many other places, situations and aspects of life.In this episode I will take you through the fascinating quirks of hygge and make the case that the world needs more of it, and that hygge can be an element in the good life for

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#9 Luck. When we don’t acknowledge, appreciate and...

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2025/05/04

What is luck?Luck is NOT magical. Your luck is just everything that you are not in control of, that has a beneficial effect on you.In this episode I make the case that despite our hard work, luck still plays a part in everyone's success story - and acknowledging this makes us stronger and more humble, and it creates the understanding that luck is something we can’t buy or create ourselves. It is something that has to be given from someone else. We hold a piece of each other's lives in our

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#8 School for the future. The 5 most important skills...

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2025/04/20

School can either be the sick old man of society or the mother of future solutions.There are so many valuable things that we could teach kids in school.In this episode I give you what I think are the 5 most important active skills that we should teach kids, in order to create the more robust, good, adaptive and future-ready kids.Forward to 6:30 if you want to skip directly to the prioritized 5-skills-list.I will give you my take on the 5 most important skills, how to implement them in school, their

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#7 When people think science is detached from ethics....

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2025/04/05

Let me take you behind the curtain of science - into the more hidden and unknown ethical and moral workings of science.Some people think that science is detached and even deprived from ethics and morals. But nothing could be further from the truth.In this episode I will take you through ethics, morals, religion, the Enlightenment, the connections between democracy and science, the softening of punishments during the ages, the January 6th insurrection, virtues like doing unto others what you want

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