{"id":13778,"date":"2024-06-17T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikamagyarosi.com\/?p=13778"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:34:41","slug":"47-fun-facts-ueber-mich-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikamagyarosi.com\/en\/47-fun-facts-ueber-mich-2","title":{"rendered":"47 Fun Facts \u00fcber mich"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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  1. My last name is Magyarosi<\/em>, which literally means \u201cHungarian\u201d \u2013 although I was born in Romania. Historically, that makes perfect sense.<\/li>\n\n
  2. I was born in Transylvania and even have a pointy canine tooth like a vampire. The catch? I can\u2019t stand the sight of blood.<\/li>\n\n
  3. I\u2019m half Hungarian, half Romanian \u2013 and my great-grandfather was Turkish.<\/li>\n\n
  4. I speak Hungarian, Romanian, and a few other languages. I\u2019m especially proud of my German.<\/li>\n\n
  5. My parents secretly got married. At first they weren\u2019t allowed to, because they didn\u2019t share the same nationality. In a way, I\u2019m repeating their story.<\/li>\n\n
  6. Back in Romania, we celebrated Easter twice every year: once Orthodox and once Catholic.<\/li>\n\n
  7. I have a sister who is 10 years younger, and sometimes I feel more like her mother. We worked through that in family therapy.<\/li>\n\n
  8. My Hungarian roots are quite noble and can be traced back to the 15th century. But please, always just use \u201cyou\u201d with me.<\/li>\n\n
  9. One of my grandfathers was the smartest man in the village, the other once owned 300 sheep.<\/li>\n\n
  10. As a child, I fell in love with Elvis Presley. Really. Is he still alive?<\/li>\n\n
  11. After 28 years as a coffee junkie, I quit drinking coffee. HOW? After fasting for 7 days. Since then, I don\u2019t stress anymore when the coffee in hotels isn\u2019t good enough.<\/li>\n\n
  12. At the last minute, I chose philosophy over medicine. My father said I could always become a taxi driver. What he didn\u2019t know: I drive so badly I\u2019d rather not drive at all. And I still don\u2019t. Yet.<\/li>\n\n
  13. I developed a seminar: Myth of the Taxi Driver. Finding your calling as a humanities graduate.<\/li>\n\n
  14. I\u2019ve always worked. At 15, I was a camera operator, filming weddings with my father.<\/li>\n\n
  15. Both my parents had side businesses next to their jobs. From them, I inherited the \u201cself-employment virus.\u201d<\/li>\n\n
  16. Alongside my business, I run a summer academy<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and an online academy<\/a><\/strong><\/em> \u2013 now with around 800 participants.<\/li>\n\n
  17. In my life (so far), I\u2019ve only failed two exams: my driver\u2019s license (4 times \u2013 during the 3rd attempt I nearly caused an accident) and empirical social research.<\/li>\n\n
  18. Later, I studied philosophy in Cluj and sociology in T\u00fcbingen at the same time. I\u2019m still not sure that was legal.<\/li>\n\n
  19. I had terrible stage fright and was almost expelled for not giving my presentations. Today I\u2019m a keynote speaker. Wild, right?<\/li>\n\n
  20. Before my burnout, I had 4 side jobs and thought, \u201cI can do it all.\u201d I was so wrong.<\/li>\n\n
  21. I\u2019ve read Kant\u2019s \u201cCritique of Pure Reason\u201d 4 times and spent years trying to understand that giant. The result is mediocre \u2013 the only mediocrity I\u2019m truly proud of.<\/li>\n\n
  22. I play badminton pretty well. Okay, very well. At university, I challenged a sporty fellow student to a match, we both bet on winning \u2013 she lost. This year, I\u2019m marrying her.<\/li>\n\n
  23. When I first arrived in Germany, I had huge expectations: punctuality and structure. Now I know: Germans need me for that. I give seminars on time, project, and knowledge management.<\/li>\n\n
  24. I\u2019m very good at reading people and their body language. I also teach it.<\/li>\n\n
  25. I have a blind, very old cat (Mika) who also has mild dementia. She loves announcing at 3 a.m. that she\u2019s awake \u2013 giving lectures full of pathos.<\/li>\n\n
  26. The featured image is one of my absolute favorites. It was taken in a library at Salem College in \u00dcberlingen by Jakub Bak, a Talent im Land scholarship holder whom I tried several times to adopt.<\/li>\n\n
  27. I\u2019ve been collecting words since I was 14. One of my favorites, and my word of the year: \u201cHoch-Zeit\u201d (High-Time\/Wedding).<\/li>\n\n
  28. I have a motto for each year: last year it was \u201cBalance,\u201d this year it\u2019s \u201cPush Through.\u201d<\/li>\n\n
  29. My favorite food is cheese spaetzle. Sadly, I can\u2019t order it anywhere anymore, because I\u2019m always disappointed. None taste like at \u201cLamm\u201d in Herrenberg.<\/li>\n\n
  30. The first cassette I bought was Roxette, the second was Chopin.<\/li>\n\n
  31. For years I said \u201cice dealer\u201d instead of \u201cice cream parlor,\u201d and \u201cdeep culture\u201d instead of \u201cdeep freezer.\u201d People always knew what I meant.<\/li>\n\n
  32. Most embarrassing slip in a client conversation: \u201cstiff\u201d instead of \u201csteep.\u201d Ooops.<\/li>\n\n
  33. I give memory training seminars, but I never remember street names.<\/li>\n\n
  34. I love white chocolate, but always feel guilty eating it. Maybe once every 2\u20133 years. I just realized this \u2013 maybe I\u2019ll treat myself tomorrow\u2026 maybe!<\/li>\n\n
  35. Not Fun Fact: As a young woman from Romania, I faced a lot of discrimination. The worst: a police officer who came \u201cofficially\u201d just to talk about his wife problems, and the head of the immigration office who told me he \u201cknew Romanian women \u2013 we only come here to get married.\u201d BUT now I teach intercultural communication at THAT very city administration!<\/li>\n\n
  36. The introduction of tuition fees in my year forced me to quit smoking.<\/li>\n\n
  37. I always read several books at once. I also watch several series at the same time.<\/li>\n\n
  38. I\u2019m so hopeless with DIY that IKEA is not an option for me.<\/li>\n\n
  39. I\u2019ve run 2 half marathons. During the first, an 80-year-old show-off passed me; my second time was worse than my first. No comment.<\/li>\n\n
  40. I grew up under communism and realized that freedom \u2013 especially freedom of speech \u2013 is extremely important to me. I struggle with \u201cspeech police\u201d \u2013 what\u2019s allowed, what\u2019s not \u2013 though I usually stay polite. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n\n
  41. Self-optimization is a real addiction for me. I wear an Apple Watch and an Oura Ring, take lots of vitamins, and love watching documentaries on healthy eating.<\/li>\n\n
  42. One of my students told me not knowing Pumuckl was a cultural gap. Now I know Pumuckl very well \u2013 and I\u2019m a big fan.<\/li>\n\n
  43. I spend ridiculous amounts of money on further education. I\u2019m constantly in courses and love learning new things.<\/li>\n\n
  44. I love crazy challenges \u2013 shall we all get up at 5 a.m. every day together? Who\u2019s in?<\/li>\n\n
  45. I come from a working-class family, but many of my childhood friends were teachers and professors. They became my mentors. Today, I mentor others and fight for fair educational opportunities.<\/li>\n\n
  46. I eat mainly vegan, but I can\u2019t say \u201cno\u201d to Romanian cabbage rolls. I own it.<\/li>\n\n
  47. Even though I give conflict management seminars, I can have epic fights with my sister \u2013 and as a memory trainer, forget all about it an hour later.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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