Hosted by Stefan Kalmar · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 27 episodes
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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 looking at the world.I will take you through psychology, philosophy, common sense, science insight, the baffling quirks of human nature, statistics, peculiar combinations and overlaps, odd facts and new ways of seeing things - and of course the occasional sanity check. In order to reach the invisible causes behind the curtain of what is actually wrong with this place?By Stefan Kalmar
Stefan Kalmar hosts What's Wrong With This Place?, a society show with 27 episodes published.
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, po
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
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 o
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 a
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
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 co
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, beca
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
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 int
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
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 t
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
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
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
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
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 cr
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 Dani
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
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 a
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 cou
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What's Wrong With This Place? is hosted by Stefan Kalmar. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 27 episodes.
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