{"id":5112,"date":"2023-01-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:57:48","slug":"self-imrpovement-culture-personal-goals-social-expectations-absolutely-intercultural-282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5112","title":{"rendered":"Self-Imrpovement Culture +++ Personal Goals +++ Social Expectations +++ Absolutely Intercultural 282 +++"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5112-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_282.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_282.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_282.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5124 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-27.11.22-14-06-28-2-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-27.11.22-14-06-28-2-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-27.11.22-14-06-28-2-858x1024.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-27.11.22-14-06-28-2-768x916.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-27.11.22-14-06-28-2-1287x1536.jpg 1287w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-27.11.22-14-06-28-2-1717x2048.jpg 1717w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-27.11.22-14-06-28-2-1200x1432.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-27.11.22-14-06-28-2.jpg 1735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 85vw, 251px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello dear listeners and welcome to show 282 of our podcast \u201cAbsolutely Intercultural\u201d. Today, we are going to talk about the culture of self-improvement. <br \/>One way or another, most of us strive to be better than we really are. We would love to look better, be more successful and feel better than we really are. Many of us constantly try to improve ourselves our working styles and our lives: taking care of our health, searching for our purpose in life, trying to make a difference in the World, developing our skills for the workplace, and working on our private relationships. <br \/>Let us assume that self-improvement is the way forward to feeling better about ourselves. But then, why do we feel so exhausted, trying to be perfect everywhere and all the time?<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely determined<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our first category, <strong>\u201c<\/strong>absolutely determined\u201d, we will listen to Teona from Georgia. As she is clearly a member of the self-improvement culture, Teona already knows what she wants to have achieved in 10 years time and has identified which extra skills the \u201cfuture-Teona\u201d needs to be a member of this self-improvement culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely risky<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our second category, <strong>\u201c<\/strong>absolutely risky\u201d, we will hear from Beyza. She shares that in order to improve herself, she had to leave her cultural comfort zone and take the big risk of leaving her home country, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely aware<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in our last category, \u201cabsolutely aware\u201d, we listen to Johnson from China. He tells us how the Chinese self-improvement culture encourages a strong awareness of losing face in front of others and to keep up one\u2019s dignity. In some cases, this fear of losing face may be stronger than the fear of death.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Do you have a truly personal approach to setting your own improvement goals? What do you think about the self-improvement culture? Is it the next fashion after the fitness boom? Do you think it can really make us happy as individuals? Get in touch, and feel free to share your unique story with us here on this podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Our next show will be coming to you on the 3 of March.<\/p>\n<p>Until then \u2013 check your personal goals against those of the cultural bubble you live in! &#8211; and<\/p>\n<p>Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chief Editor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/natasha.obikhod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalia Obikhod<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Editors:\u00a0Kyeong Jin Kim, Faisal Faisal<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_282.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/podcast-absolutely-intercultural\/id137617215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello dear listeners and welcome to show 282 of our podcast \u201cAbsolutely Intercultural\u201d. Today, we are going to talk about the culture of self-improvement. One way or another, most of us strive to be better than we really are. We would love to look better, be more successful and feel better than we really are. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Self-Imrpovement Culture +++ Personal Goals +++ Social Expectations +++ Absolutely Intercultural 282 +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,1525,228,5,1526,315,1484,1117,81,6,1504,1450,1523,997,188,73,1527,1446,1518,1522,229],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-absolutely-intercultural","tag-aware","tag-china","tag-culture","tag-determined","tag-dr-elmar-laurent-borgmann","tag-faisal-faisal","tag-georgia","tag-germany","tag-intercultural","tag-kim-kyeongjin","tag-natalia-obikhod","tag-personal-goals","tag-podcast","tag-poland","tag-rheinahrcampus","tag-risky","tag-self-improvement","tag-self-improvement-culture","tag-social-expectations","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}