Future Skills

We describe and discuss a useful metacognition tool: The Myers Briggs Test which is based on Carl Jung’s ideas about 4 Functions. Jung’s functions are based on Input and Output, Information and Decision. How do you gather intel and how do you make your decisions. Fact-based and reasoning, e.g., or intuition and feeling? Use the tests for inspiration on beginning your introspective journey. Use the...

Alexander Bard is most famous for his music career, where he's put together successful groups like Army of Lovers and Bodies Without Organs , and for being the top judge of Swedish Idol. More importantly, however, Bard’s also a futuristic philosopher—one of the most well-informed when it comes to understanding how the Internet and social media is impacting the rest of the world (business, governme...

This episode draws on an idea from Ludvig’s Ultimate Commonplace System . The Review File is like a virtual book summary book, only more extreme. It’s based on two learning methods: Spaced repetition and availability bias . Your Review File is where you collect all the best materials related to your work, studies, investing, creative project, etc… and you want to review it every now and then over...

Barry Schwartz  is a professor of Psychology, serving as visiting professor at the University of Berkeley, in California. His numerous TED talks have been viewed and listened to more than 20 million times.  They include:  “ Paradox of Choice ”, “ Loss of Wisdom ”, “ Practical Knowledge ”, and why the way we think about “ Work is Broken ”.  He has also written several popular books, where  The Para...

We cover the fundamental 5 steps to become an investor—based on Mikael’s personal guidelines. Here’ s a summary of the steps: 1 Psychology is more important than maths in investing 2 Read  books  and insightful articles about investing, not testosterone dripping online stock forums 3 Find a strategy that suits  you . Refine it in company with likeminded truth-seekers 4 Use real money; it’s the onl...

In this expert episode, our guest is  Sebastian Marshall,  founder of  Ultraworking .   Sebastian is also an author. You may recall we talked about the Japanese concept of Ikigai in our last episode. Sebastian's first book was called  Ikigai .   Here’s what  we cover :   -The different online tools and systems that Sebastian uses -- and also that me and Mikael use. And perhaps more important, the...

Look up the Japanese concept  Ikigai .   We talk about how the word ”Passion” has lost its meaning from being overused and why Ikigai is a much better concept—and something that the Western World is missing. We also rant about herd mentality, the Law of Attraction, and “putting out positive intentions on the Blockchain”.   Ikigai can be thought of as the combination of  (1)  what you love,  (2)  w...

Welcome to another expert episode! Today our guest is Jay Campbell.    Jay Campbell is a Champion Men’s Physique Competitor and the bestselling author of (" The Testosterone Optimization Bible ”).   In this episode:   We’ll go over some of the myths and truths about testosterone, estrogen, and other hormones, according to what the latest science has to say about it.    We start out talking about h...

Hi friend – in this episode we talk about how to monitor your blood pressure. It’s not difficult at all once you know how to do it. Then you can do it once in a while to get a sense of whether chronic stress is building up in your body. This is another example of Boundary Testing. Meaning: it won’t give you an indicator of just how good your health is, but it *will* tell you when to be worried. FY...

Which are the most important preventive health tests? What are their benefits? How often should you do them? What do they cost? These are questions answered in today’s episode of Future Skills. Why should you do preventive health tests? Because they will often let you know if something is SERIOUSLY OFF, then you can (hopefully) fix it before your health declines. This is sometimes known as " Bound...

Today we talk to Annie Duke . Annie is best known for her career as a professional poker player, where she has won a World Series of Poker bracelet, the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She has more than 16 money finishes and has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. She’s also a mother of 4 children and the author of the new...

Today we talk to Casey Gauss . Casey is the founder of Viral Launch . Viral Launch is an online business that helps Amazon Sellers sell more stuff on Amazon. He dropped out of college when he was 21. At the time, his family was going through a really tough time and were living on his little brother’s pizza-delivery paychecks. So he spent all his time Coding and (after failing a few times) built an...

In this expert episode, we have serial entrepreneur Ola Ahlvarsson [ Personal site | Wikipedia ] back on the show to tell us how to run successful innovation labs - and to explain his framework of the 5 entrepreneurial types, and how you build a team around your talents. Ola says that 7/10 innovation labs done in-house fail, and that those that do succeed are: Separate, Shared, Seen, Slim, Strateg...

In this episode of Future Skills we talk about what Biological Prime Time is, why it's so important , how you can identify your peak productivity or peak creativity time of day, and how to make the most of it through smart tweaks of your daily habits Try to figure out when your BPT is. For many people, it will be about 1 hour after waking up. There are different times, but this is most common. Use...

Ola Ahlvarsson is a really really interesting guy (Personal site | Wikipedia). He's founded more than 20 businesses, worked with many of the world's biggest brands that you know of (like McDonalds, Google, Microsoft, Merck, Procter & Gamble, Twitter, IBM.... etc) He's also an avid martial artist, with a Black Belt in Karate, and he's become the European champion in Goju Ryu Karate, the Swedish cha...

The 2008 crisis was a hell-hole for the financial industry, as we all know. What most people don’t know, however, is that it was almost as bad for the legal profession. 60% of legal graduates (J.Ds) couldn’t get a job upon graduation. Finance and law are stereotypical industries where you are so specialized that—if the industry takes a hit—you will be in trouble. And then there's ecosystemic risk....

The 4 capitals are the foundation of becoming Future-Proof. What are they?  Financial capital (Uncle Scrooge)  Social capital (Godfather)  Cultural capital (Richard Feynman)  Influence capital (Oprah Winfrey) Tip: When you think about your progress in life, try to be concrete. A good way is to use this outline, and think of how you improved in one or many of these capitals. Noble indulgence ho...

It’s a TRAP! Once your sleep takes a hit, you can adapt to it, but it will transfer to other parts of your body’s hormones, and it will create a downward spiral that goes like this: (1) Bad Sleep >> (2) Higher Cortisol Levels >> (3) Lower Impulse Control, Tired and Hungry >> (4) Eat Sugar and Consume Stimulants for Fast Energy and Focus >> (5) Become Fatter and More Stressed >> . . . Bad Sleep [AG...

Alexander Bard is most famous for his music career, where he's put together successful groups like Army of Lovers and Bodies Without Organs, and for being the top judge of Swedish Idol. He’s also a futuristic philosopher — one of the most well-informed when it comes to understanding how the Internet and social media is impacting the rest of the world (business, government, public debate). Together...

These are two different personality traits. You can think of them as being polar opposites on a spectrum. Depending on which one you are, it has a big impact on how you should manage your career and plan your days. If you’re neither, then you’re probably in the middle. That could mean you’re an Executor. An Initiator is someone who has a lot of ideas and can begin new projects easily. An Initiator...

Maximization vs satisficing: This is both a decision-making rule *and* a personality spectrum. People who are Maximizers will dig themselves deep into details and make sure what they’re doing is done properly; they are perfectionists by nature. People who are Satisficers will just make do; they’ll do the minimum for moving the project forward, and want to move forward fast. A team should consist o...

Martin Sandquist is the founder of Lynx Asset Management, one of the biggest hedge funds in Europe. They're classified as a CTA (commodity trading advisor) and have +70 employees. Martin is no longer active in Lynx. He now spends most of his time managing money and trading on his own. In this conversation you'll learn: Martin's 30/30/30/10 time-management method The 4-step formula that explains mo...

Inspired by Richard Koch's 80/20 Principle book, we discuss a little-known method for becoming more creative by measuring your mood. Everyone can use it, but it will be more effective for (1) those who have wild mood swings or wide variations of energy levels and/or (2) control their own time.   Competition: 10 people will win a 15-min coaching session and will receive 3 bottles of ArcticMed (Euro...

We explain what Future Skills is about and then we discuss why you should have a commonplace. Commonplacing is a mental practice used by many of the greatest thinkers in history, and it will teach you to become a more structured thinker. We both keep commonplaces ourselves.   Competition: 10 people will win a 15-min coaching session and will receive 3 bottles of ArcticMed (Europe's best omega-3 fi...