Practical Tips for Life & Business - by Ludvig Sunstrom
I know I’m slow.
I wrote the original version when I was ~22-23. Then I wrote the current (Kindle) version when I was 26. That, right there, is three years of refining and expanding upon existing ideas.
How many people would spend years pondering a philosophy? I know many people do 100 tweets a day, email their followers twice per day, and create a new product every week. I’m slower though, because I don’t copy.
[How I cut my total workout time in a third and even put on a lot of muscle.]
If you had asked me one year ago, “Ludvig, could you maintain your body by spending a third of the time in the gym, and barely even getting sore?” I would have flat out told you no.
Now, I’m not so sure.
Is it possible to put on weight, gain muscle, and stay in shape without adhering to long conventional workout routines? This has been the case for me the past 6 months.
Let me give you the rundown.Continue Reading…
I have written about history on multiple occasions in the past, and now it’s time again.
Studying history is important because it gives you a broad understanding of human nature under different circumstances. And it also allows you to predict with higher certainty when people or countries are succumbing to certain historical patterns. When this happens, there is not much you can do to counteract it — a wiser decision may be to simply extract yourself from the situation and strive to avoid the folly of your peers, statesmen or countrymen.Continue Reading…
Hi friends,
I’m excited to tell you that we’ve now completed the Future Skills Program and will do our first (scaled-up) run of the program, starting on Sunday 14th.
The past couple of days I’ve been sending lots of emails and communicating with applicants and the people scheduled for our first run. In doing this, I’ve received some recurring questions which I will now do my best to answer.
What is the Future Skills Program?Continue Reading…
“For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study.”
~Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau could live on 6 weeks of serious work per year.
Most likely, you cannot.
Because inflation has ruined your purchasing power and the median salary has not risen enough to compensate for this.
Also, taxes have increased. So you have to work a lot more.
To put that in perspective:
Roman aqueducts
Accelerating change, progress, and innovation is not the status quo.
The Aqueduct and functional sewage systems existed during the Roman Empire (300 BC – 300 AD). And then, when the Roman Empire fell, so did this innovation. The idea of digging tunnels below ground to transport water and waste out of the city was effectively eradicated from popular culture.Continue Reading…
Hi there –
I hope you’ve had a fruitful year.
I thought I’d give a brief summary of 2018 and share some lessons. (Like I did in 2016)
The year went ahead different than I had expected. It’s been eventful and I learned a tremendous deal (if you’ve followed Future Skills, you’ll have picked up on some of it).
I made many mistakes, butContinue Reading…
[UPDATED: 1/12/2019 – See bottom – 3 more guests]
I’ve been fortunate to meet and talk to many interesting people.
In a recent Q&A, a listener asked me & Mikael what we had learned from our podcasts, and how making them had impacted our lives.
For me, the most important thing has been (and remains) meeting and talking to interesting individuals; learning from masters.
Learning partly from osmosis, partly from research. But mostly from reading between the lines and reflecting on my own.
This article sums up the best advice from Future Skills Podcast yet.Continue Reading…
How I got Ripped in 2 Years by Following These 13 Principles 
The 11 Maxims You Should Live By 
School is for Fools: 10 Reasons the Education System is a Failure 
The 2-Day Fast 
I Made Fun of the Law of Attraction And Here's What Happened 
The 13 Minute Workout: How to Maintain Your Physique with Minimal Time Spent 
My 6-week Experiment with the UltraMind Diet 
How to Study History (the top 10 tips) 
The Expanded Version of Breaking out of Homeostasis & More The 13 Minute Workout: How to Maintain Your Physique with Minimal Time Spent 
Nothing New Under the Sun: 8 Historic Patterns 
Now Finished: The Future Skills Program 
The Thoreau Test: Can You Live on 6 Weeks’ Work? 
Don’t Think Too Highly of Human Nature 
Annual Review 2018 
20 Future Skills and My Selection of Expert Advice 
