Ludvig Sunström - Breaking Out of Homeostasis: Achieve Mind-Body Mastery and Continue Evolving When Others Stagnate

B REAKING
OUT OF
H OMEOSTASIS

Achieve Mind-Body Mastery And Continue Evolving When Others Stagnate

2017 Ludvig Sunstrm

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What is Homeostasis And How Do You Break Out of it?

Homeostasis is the bodys autopilot for survival. It is the brain and body's mechanism for staying the same and saving energy. Its also the oldest and most powerful biological force.

The brain did not evolve to think or change, but to maintain homeostasis.

Homeostasis no longer works as it should because our biology has not kept up with technology.

Most people never achieve their potential because they are trapped in homeostasis.

Homeostasis is caused by biology and reinforced by society.

You can Break out of Homeostasis by mastering the influences of biology and society.

The way to master these influences is the eightfold path:

1. Right Cognition
2. Right Habits
3. Right Discipline
4. Right Learning
5. Right Stimulation
6. Right Addictions
7. Right Reward System
8. Right Risk Taking

About the Author

Ludvig Sunstrm is an entrepreneur and author. Together with hedge fund manager Mikael Syding, he hosts the popular business podcast 25 Minuter, which has been ranked #1 on iTunes several times. His content has been read and listened to by millions of people.

Read his blog is at: www.StartGainingMomentum.com
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Say hi on Twitter: @LudvigSGM

7 Things This Book Will Help You Achieve:

This book is dangerous. It will make you think painful thoughts about things you could (and should) do differently. But it will also make you explore powerful new frontiers of the mind. So, if you can hang in thereand follow through on these ideasyou will be amply rewarded.

Mikael Syding, European Hedge Fund Manager of the Decade

This book primes you for progress. It reminds us that conformity is regression.

Martin Berkhan, Intermittent Fasting innovator

You will learn how to:

1. Remain adaptable in old age and continue evolving when others stagnate.
2. Get out of a depressing downward spiral and thrust yourself into a winner effect by removing bad habits and rewiring your brains reward system.
3. Double your willpower and curiosity by using your prefrontal cortex more.
4. Distinguish between when to trust your gut feeling and when not to.
5. Join the cognitive elite by developing your neocortex for higher order thinking.
6. Annihilate fear and unlock the genius of boldness by taming your amygdala.
7. Become a master of your craft by attaining expert pattern recognition.

Finally: A Resolution to the Age Old Debate on Choosing Happiness or Success

I met Ludvig in 2014. I had worked in high finance as a sell-side analyst, buy-side analyst; and a hedge fund manager, managing director and partner, but I felt something was missing. I wanted to broaden my perspective and share my insights with others.

Before finishing that story, I want to tell you that this book deals with a super-important concept.

You must learn about homeostasisand how to break out of itbecause its what determines how well you adapt to change. It will determine whether you can become future-proof in a world thats changing faster than ever. This book will give you the tools to stay young at heart and mind longer.

Im often asked what my best advice would be for a young and ambitious person. Well, if you want to be productive and wealthy, yet happy and healthy, THIS is the book you should read; and the book I wish I had read many times over in high school and college.

I never really identified the underlying reasons for why I received a physics award from the King of Sweden. Or why I was poached from a small bank to head the IT-research team at Swedens largest bank during the IT boom in the second half of the 1990s. Or how I became partner and Managing Director at arguably Europes best performing hedge fund between 1999 and 2010. Ludvig, however, did connect the dots.

Chances are youre already well versed with Ludvigs work through his website. If not, prepare to be amazed. Familiar as I am with his ideas by now, I still underlined something on almost every page in this book.

Ive listened to hundreds of hours of podcasts about the brain and body. Ive read dozens and dozens of books about philosophy and psychology, and I have followed many blogs about self-improvement. I am not a novice in these areas.

But this book is different. Sure, it is about those things, and Ludvig neatly synthesizes the big ideas from all those fields, but he also brings something new to the table: a powerful and practical framework that (almost) anyone can use to become smarter and stronger, regardless of age.

The question is: Will you use it?

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I was born in 1972. My generation had it easier in many ways than the Millennials. Attention disruptors like MTV, Internet, social media, and smart phones didnt exist in my world, and calling out of state was prohibitively expensive.

I was fortunate enough to be a loner and an avid reader (starting early as a bullied 4-year old outsider). I got a computer for my tenth birthday in January 1982. From that day onward, I spent all my waking time programming, reading computer magazines in English, and playing intricate text based games.

My being less socially inclined than most people thus proved a blessing in disguise, as it led me to spend hours upon hours in deep concentration and a state of flow, learning to decipher both English and coding at the same time, while my brain was still young and at its most malleable.

I had no idea of it at the time, but I was laying down a solid infrastructure in my brain; consisting of the habit of deep work and getting into flow as I was learning math, coding, logic, English, responsibility and discipline at the same time (if youve ever debugged a not-so-structured program you know what I mean).

Had I been born 20 years later, Im sure I would have gotten lost among the siren calls from social media. I probably would have wasted away my life on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Without the skills I acquired early in lifemore or less by chanceI would have been left irrelevant in todays economic landscape. I would have been doomed to eking out an almost vegetative subsistence in routine jobs, with no future, and an inability to concentrate and learn fast enough to propel myself forward, like a Homeostasis Dweller.

Reading this book might just be the thing that gives you the tools to avoid such a fate.

This book deals with all the important skills any ambitious person needs to equip himself with to thrive in the modern world; a world for which humans are dangerously maladapted.

We are constantly being manipulated; manipulated by clever marketers who specialize in hijacking our brains reward system, manipulated by our own biases and psychological blind spots, and manipulated by short-term instincts, fears and drives that couldnt care less about our long term well-being, careers or network of friends.

Ive often been content and complacent (in particular after a win), and prone to resting on my laurels. Had I read this book earlier and taken some its most important concepts to heart (like The 4 Pillars of Wakefulness) I could have directed my natural drive, focus and energy in a better way; to optimize my learning, avoid stagnating, and break through plateaus in different areas of my life with more consistency.