Dennis Stoelwinder

Authenticity,Awareness

The eternal struggle for identity and purpose

By Dennis Stoelwinder
Awareness

When all is right I can be anything, but it rarely is

By Dennis Stoelwinder
Awareness,Culture

The power of patience in a fast and chaotic world

By Dennis Stoelwinder
Authenticity Awareness

The eternal struggle for identity and purpose

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Sunday, February 3, 2019
the eternal struggle for identity and purpose

Who’s your favorite superhero? I bet you have one. I know I do. I like the more aggressive ones, the bad-asses with anger issues. Not sure why, they just resonate with me. You know, The Hulk, Wolverine, The Punisher. I even resonate with Thanos who took over the Universe to kill half of it and …

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Awareness

When all is right I can be anything, but it rarely is

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Sunday, January 13, 2019
If all was right I could be anything, but it isn't | Dennis Stoelwinder

Sean was just 46 when it all came to an end. There were still tracks on the ice from the kids skating and having fun that day. They didn’t have the slightest clue of the tragedy that would happen just a couple of feet away in the bushes where Sean had laid his head to rest. …

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Awareness Culture

The power of patience in a fast and chaotic world

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Dave and Joey are waiting for the bus. Dave is enjoying the wind in his face, the smell of fresh raindrops on the concrete, the dynamics between people. His heart rate is low, his mind is clear, he has a smile on his face and he feels good. He is patient. He is not even …

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Authenticity Culture

How to survive in the system as an authentic individual

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Dennis Stoelwinder - The individual in the system

From the moment our dad’s overlord sperm colluded with our mom’s fertile egg we belong to a system. Throughout our lives, we encounter many different systems. We enter systems, leave systems and stay in systems from the moment we are born until we leave this giant rock called earth. They are basically everywhere. A system is …

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Awareness Culture Parenthood

Attention is a finite resource and we’re going bankrupt

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Friday, July 13, 2018

Last Monday my washing machine broke. Three days later the dishwasher. The misses text me while I was at work. “The washing machine broke down, I smell rubber”. I respond with “Fuck! Not now!”, like there ever is a convenient time for shit to break down. Slightly annoyed I get back to work, but I …

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Awareness

A million little decisions

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Sunday, April 29, 2018

Life is built out of a million little decisions. Whether you snooze or not in the morning has an effect on if you will take a shower, if you will eat a healthy breakfast and so on. Every tiny decision is a block and if you don’t stack the blocks one on another properly eventually …

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Awareness Culture

The curious case of complaining

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Tuesday, April 24, 2018

In one hand I have the absolute best pizza slice, handmade in Sicily by the godfather of Italian pizza. In my other hand, I have an old, rotten sandwich with something in the middle that looks a bit like cheese. Which hand would you pick? Unless you have some weird fetish for rotten food, the …

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Culture Mindset

The 24/7 hustle: the biggest disease of this era

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Sunday, April 15, 2018
The 24/7 Hustle

It seems like everyone wants to be the next superstar entrepreneur, the next Arnold Schwarzenegger, the next person on the magazine covers, the next one that goes viral. And in order to become that we have to hustle. You know; “do whatever it takes and give it all you got”. We have to sleep just …

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Awareness Mindset

When you feel like your life is falling apart

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Tuesday, March 13, 2018
When you feel like your life is falling apart2

I can’t write this article because there are a million and one things going on in my life that need my attention. There’s the toddler, the misses, the family, the new job, the bills, my friends, the weather sucks, the world is falling apart. There are a million things going on and I just can’t …

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Authenticity

Voices and echoes

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Friday, February 16, 2018
A man listening to an echo of a voice

I like silence. I like a good conversation as well, but if I had to choose, talking is out the door. Talking isn’t really necessary for a good conversation anyway. “Silence is pure. it draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.” No idea who said that, but I …

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Lessons Parenthood

The gift of children: 6 things my toddler taught me about life

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Tuesday, February 6, 2018
A girl on a swing in nature

Kids are awesome. Grown-ups are awesome as well, but they forgot they are. If you can’t see your own awesomeness anymore, how can someone else? It’s like being able to sing like a bird but never opening your mouth, nobody knows you can sing, not even you. Just like all kids, my daughter is awesome …

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Authenticity Awareness

Fuck it, I quit

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Wednesday, January 31, 2018
A guy jumping of a cliff

Whenever I hear someone say “fuck it”, my spider-senses get triggered, my ears open wide and my vision becomes that of a hawk. I’m not talking about the “I don’t give a fuck” attitude from being indifferent and utterly insecure. I’m talking about a genuine “fuck it” coming from the heart. The words fuck it are the …

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Authenticity Culture

The tragedy of not knowing who you are

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Tuesday, January 23, 2018
The Hulk on a black background

Before we start the journey of this post, let me ask you a question: Who are you? You’ve heard this question before and can probably answer it immediately, but that’s not the answer I’m looking for. Answers like: I am a mechanic, a businessman, a motor freak, a loser, a nobody, a king, a whatever, won’t …

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Mindset

Coming to terms with losing everything

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Saturday, January 13, 2018
Cookie monster with a broken jar of cookies

Losing is something that isn’t perceived as something pleasant, and so we try to avoid it at all costs. Being called a loser in high school has probably caused many traumatic experiences which still play a role in our adults lives. Being a loser in high school meant you sucked, you lost, you failed. You …

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Awareness Culture

Stop watching the news, now

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Saturday, December 30, 2017
guy, tv, noise

Research shows we have around 70.000 thoughts a day. Not sure how one counts those, but that’s a lot of thoughts if you think (whoops, another thought) about it, but not necessarily a problem. What is concerning is that another research shows 80% of our thoughts are negative. It doesn’t take yet another research to …

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Culture

The paradox of pursuing a better life

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Tuesday, December 19, 2017
A guy crashing face down with his bike broken in the air. The paradox of becoming better.

Humans are a rare species of Mother Nature. In contrast to our fellow inhabitants on the globe, we constantly look for ways to improve and better ourselves. This is why we are the dominant force on earth, and why we are responsible for a lot what is happening to nature. In general, we can say …

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The deception of our aspiring minds

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Monday, December 11, 2017
A guy with a sign for advice

In the race to the bottom, the mind has taken first place from the body. Taking the crown from heart-attacks, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses, depression is now the number one illness in the world.  It is remarkable that this is the first time a mental condition is more common than a physical condition. Don’t …

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Awareness

Remember, you will die

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Monday, December 4, 2017
A scared lady sitting in the street

Talking about death falls in the same category as income, politics, and religion, it’s a taboo. Where the last three are avoided to not stir up heated conversations or comparisons, the first is avoided because we don’t want to think about it. It makes us uncomfortable, scared and vulnerable. Yet, it is something that is …

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Awareness

The gradual death of the individual

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Sunday, November 12, 2017

We came a long way. We traded our caves for smart homes and prolonged our life from 30 till over a 100. We have all the information we ever need at the tip of our fingers and went from an honest fistfight, with blood on the walls, to bashing each other on the internet. Not sure if …

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Awareness

The meditation of everyday life

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Friday, November 10, 2017

Life can become a string of meaningless events. We do one thing after the other, without paying any real attention to it. If you ask a random person what they did an hour ago, or what they had for dinner last night, chances are they stare into the depths of the universe to come up …

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Growing stronger Technology

From wandering generality to meaningful specific in a distracted world

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Generation Y is the new big thing. The generation born between roughly the beginning of the eighties and the end of the nineties. The millennials, the game changers, the digital entrepreneurs who want to impact the world for a better. Great times are ahead, but somehow the millennials aren’t up to the task. Burnout rates …

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Awareness Culture Mindset

The road of infinity leads to a land of nowhere

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Thursday, November 2, 2017
A road with trees on the left and clouds

Imagine four guys, age 20’ish, sitting at a table in a bar with a beer. There’s no chatter because everybody is faced down with their heads in their phones. Every now and then one of the guys looks up and says “hey, look at this, this is funny”. Two guys ignore him, one looks up, …

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Culture Mindset

5 lessons in mastery from a world class sushi chef

By Dennis Stoelwinder on Thursday, November 17, 2016
Sushi chef Jiro Ono defines mastery

I’m a firm believer that no matter what you do, pursuing mastery should always be part of the process. Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you land among the stars. The obvious country to visit for mastery is Japan. Land of the rising sun, geishas, and samurais. This isn’t a piece about any …

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Dennis Stoelwinder
Dennis Stoelwinder

Dennis is a writer, holistic lifestyle enthusiast, and a firm believer in the power of genuine weirdness and authenticity. In his writings, he explores the wonderful craziness of us as people and how we can improve. When he has the luxury of free time (which is scares due to toddler duties) you can find him in the studio making house music, buried in a book, diving into personal development methods, or drinking coffee in places with preferably no people around him.

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