Glitzy-glamourous photo shoots or sliding-in-the-mud trail running? | April 21, 2024

"What does modern-day *Homo sapiens* choose in the age of digital deception and pathological productivity?

Between these two program options, in my heart, I would always choose the second one without exception, yet I am still driven by curiosity (essentially dopamine) to see how fellow athletes, fellow sufferers, and fellow human beings from different backgrounds think: what lies behind their life philosophy, what drivers are in the background story of a top athlete, performer, businessman, CEO, etc.?

What is their why? What counts as a successful Life for them? What makes them feel happy? Why are they the way they are, and why do they act the way they do? Looking back at their past decades, what would they do differently, what did they regret and what did they not regret?

What are their views on the value of time and attention, the moments that never return, or even passing away, faith, religion, happiness, a full life, health, longevity?

For the sake of getting to know human stories and mindsets, for connection, and because of my immeasurable curiosity in search of different life philosophies, I am happy to join events where I can meet and talk to people like Zoltán Gazsi, with whom I have at least three common points: we both defeated cancer, we both want to live to be at least 100 (but rather 120), and we shared our stories, knowledge, and experiences in book form as well.

Reading Zoli's book titled *Emberszemlélet* (Human Perspective) even before its publication, I received answers to most of the above questions. I try to learn from it.

And I, in my twenties—still a bit of a "greenhorn" compared to people wiser than me, but sufficiently conscious for my current situation—strive to pass on my own experiences in my book titled *Super sapiens*. Similar to Zoli's book, the story is spiced with plenty of personal experiences, events, and scientific facts on the topic of longevity.

We do all this so that as many people as possible can live as long, healthy, and full a life as possible.

Zoli and I don't look at knowledge transfer as a zero-sum game: knowledge is not a resource that, if we give some away, we have less left. On the contrary. The more we all give to each other, the more we will all have.

It is worth reading Zoli Gazsi's book *Emberszemlélet* and the volume *Super sapiens* with this mindset.

I heartily recommend Zoli's book to everyone who would like to learn from his decades of human-centered leadership experience and strive for a longer, healthier, fuller life through the knowledge gained.

Zoli's perspective on life and people is well illustrated by the fact that while he works as a CEO, holds his ground as a father and husband, struggles with cancer, receives chemotherapy, and then recovers, he works on his own book and meanwhile supports the publication of the *Super sapiens* book (and many other causes too): he also measures success by how many people he was able to help and how many charitable activities he could support—that is, what he was able and is able to give back to his fellow human beings, fellow sufferers, and to Life.

Knowing all this, it was an honor to receive the special prize from Eisberg Kft., the "Athlete encouraging health consciousness of the year" award, from Zoli, which I thank you for!

Asking myself the question "Glitzy-glamourous photo shoots or sliding-in-the-mud trail running?", the following thoughts come to mind:

Marriott Hotel. Award ceremony. Super, super—I understand and live it all, but the best is still when we 'disappear' into the depths of the forest with a team of trail runners in the Börzsöny, and connect with each other and nature in the greatest team flow—for me, this is success most of the time.

And at the award ceremony, success for me was not the award, but the fact that I could receive it from Zoli. "