Background and Interests

At some time or another nearly everybody experiences life as a challenge,
as difficult or even impossible and my life has been no different.
While working first as a student then as an engineer, a scientist, businessman,
professor, CEO, coach and mentor I became increasingly curious about what
might be the thread connecting our experiences to our perceptions of life.

From growing and being educated first in Europe then in America it seemed
that whenever something was difficult or hard for me the common factor was me,
and later I began to see that the critical factor is my mind. My curiosity centered
on the question of how my mind so often failed me.

As humans we are often a puzzle to ourselves; we are left wondering why we
responded as we did. Often we describe ourselves as a multiplicity; for example
when we say “part of me wants this but another part wants that.” Sometimes some
of us embarrass ourselves when we do or say exactly the thing we didn’t want
to – this is the so called “Freudian Slip”. It was Carl Jung who scientifically demonstrated
by his Association Experiment the presence and power of contents of the unconscious mind.