Practical Tips for Life & Business - by Ludvig Sunstrom
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:
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…
I count the fact that we’re evolutionary mismatched to much of the modern world as one of the most important mind-shifts I’ve had.
One of the biggest evolutionary mismatches is the capitalist system.
We all know that Marxism, Communism, Leftism don’t work. If they did, they would have prosperous companies and happy people. It doesn’t take a genius to understand that if you rob people ofContinue Reading…
Have you ever wondered if you can trust your gut feeling?
I have, many times.
So many times I wrote a book about it.
I recently talked to Poker Pro Annie Duke about this on Future Skills.
Interestingly, she seems to have a view on this that’s similar to mine.
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Do you want to build an online business?
Do you know anyone who’s made it big?
In the latest episode of Future Skills, we talk to my friend Casey Gauss, founder & CEO of Viral Launch, which have helped Amazon sellers do more than 30,000 product launches. Consider this a case study from someone young and smart who has all of the experience fresh in mind.Continue Reading…
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