Ivor Jüchtern

People are at the beginning and end of everything I do. Empathy is more important to me than anything else. I have an extraordinary ability to discover and develop people, to invent and develop organisations and to implement projects with the help of people.

Community is the extension of empathy to encompass a group of people. 

I have a certain relationship w/ the impossible. Richard Branson wrote, in Losing My Virginity, that "leadership is giving people impossible goals and then cheering like mad, while they are achieving them".

I grew up under the influence of my grandfather, who supplied me with books about pioneers — like as Thor Heyerdahl and Gerald Durrell. This established in me the belief, that life is about pioneering. An attitude I retain until today.

In the primary school we received no grades and could sleep during class. The secondary school was for highly gifted children. I graduated it remembering the words of one of the teachers, "You are very intelligent and very lazy." That was the understanding of neurodivergence of the time.

My attempt to attend a university ended after two challenges. First, I wanted to study everything. Second, when I finally chose Macroeconomics (in the hope to see the big picture, disappointed from the one year dab in Theology) — I nearly died of boredom due to the slow academic pace. I quit.

I decided, that the only way for me is that of an autodidact. I have far too many interests. A radio program describing Goethe as the last universalist made me understand, that true universalism is not possible anymore. On another hand Umberto Eco once said, that "one does not need to have read all the books one owns".

I decided, that the only way for me is that of an autodidact. I have far too many interests. A radio program describing Goethe as the last universalist made me understand, that true universalism is not possible anymore. On another hand Umberto Eco once said, that "one does not need to have read all the books one owns".

I am unable to differentiate between work and life. This is why  the people and the relationships is the most important thing when I work. For the same reason everything I do should have meaning and should be an (ad) venture.

One can be #1 in many ways on many levels and for many reasons. I have a very non-competitive way of being #1 — I try to be better than myself and to give the best I can. On repeat.

Open Society Foundation. Stuart Nolan.

EuroPrix Multimedia Art. Salzburg.

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