TRANSLATION:

Carsten Graff - a Portrait: "Many people regard me as the boy in the fairytale: ”The emperors new clothes”. I often ask the kind of questions that most people are too busy to ask. My work is to create an emotional space that enables people to think in a more clear way about their work, their lives or other things that has an importance."

Habits
Some people can inspire on an emotional level – they can be open to many ideas, thoughts or notions. For many years I have worked on order to strengthen my own abilities in this direction.

Meeting my clients I’m always focused on creating the energy necessary for unconventional thinking.

Meetings
When I tell my own story some people are often influenced in a way that makes it possible for them to be open towards new possibilities in their own lives. At the same time I never think of my self as someone giving other people good advice. I probably just in a state of mind that makes it possible for others to realize the things that they already knew when we met.

Computers
Through the last years I have done around 1300 lectures internationally. At many of these lectures I have been speaking about computers. We tend to think that computers will save money, office-space time or paper. Reality tells us a different story. Computers are helping us waste more time, paper and space than ever before. When the computer industry became big we learned that we would hardly have to work anymore and at the same time nobody were unemployed any more. Because of computers we ended up becoming busier than ever before.

Philosophy
When I work with people I always try not to perform – but to be honest about who I am. Honesty is infectious. When I work this way in can often be hard to measure the result of what I do. I often think that the people who become annoyed or irritated are the ones who benefit most from my work.

Politics
The only thing I don’t like to work with is politics or religion. Any way of thinking that postulates a truth about life is not my way of thinking. I’m trying to deconstruct the truth, our knowledge – and I’m starting with my own truth and my own knowledge. My books and lectures are just a result of my search for honesty …