Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Sebastian Hallqvist
Sebastian Hallqvist

2.4K Followers

Home

About

Published in

Better Humans

·Pinned

5 Strategies I Use To Build a Fierce and Functional Body in the Modern World

The results: 7–8% body fat, great balance, flexibility and strength, consistent focus, and a happy mood — To my very core, I believe 99% of the world’s problems can be traced back to one thing: Our relationship with nature is broken. The current health crisis of chronic disease linked to poor health habits (and exposing us to things like COVID-19, cancer, and Alzheimer’s) is perhaps the most…

Fitness

12 min read

5 Strategies I Use To Build a Fierce and Functional Body in the Modern World
5 Strategies I Use To Build a Fierce and Functional Body in the Modern World
Fitness

12 min read


Published in

Ascent Publication

·Pinned

How to Spend Your Life Well, According to Smart People

Everything you spend time on, you pay for with your life — so choose wisely. — “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” — Seneca Because we don’t know exactly when we’re going to die, we tend to think of death as an abstract event happening sometime far away in the future. …

Philosophy

7 min read

How to Spend Your Life Well, According to Smart People
How to Spend Your Life Well, According to Smart People
Philosophy

7 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Pinned

What Elon Musk’s Roommate Can Teach Us About Self Worth

If you’re always comparing yourself, you will never feel successful. — Adeo Ressi is a wild success. In 2009, he started Founder’s Institute, a startup incubator now operating in 165 countries (I recently used one of their tools, and I live in Sweden). Before that, he started a handful of other companies, all of which he successfully sold. …

Self Improvement

6 min read

What Elon Musk’s Roommate Can Teach Us About Self Worth
What Elon Musk’s Roommate Can Teach Us About Self Worth
Self Improvement

6 min read


Published in

ILLUMINATION

·Aug 10

Don’t Waste Your Time Learning –Change Your Behavior Instead

Change is always painful — Once, maybe twice per year, I come across an idea that completely rewires my brain. This often comes in the form of a book. I’ve heard Ryan Holiday refer to this as a “quake book” — one that causes a metaphysical earthquake that shatters your worldview. Some of my quake…

Behavior Change

5 min read

Don’t Waste Your Time Learning — Change Your Behavior Instead
Don’t Waste Your Time Learning — Change Your Behavior Instead
Behavior Change

5 min read


Published in

ILLUMINATION

·Jul 20

You Are (Probably) Smart Enough To Become Successful

Why intelligent people don’t always win — Certain people move through life at lightning speed in the direction of the stratosphere. They make more progress in a year than most do in their life. And when they do end up taking a wrong turn, they course-correct and go back to winning without skipping a beat. As a…

Success

5 min read

You Are (Probably) Smart Enough To Become Successful
You Are (Probably) Smart Enough To Become Successful
Success

5 min read


Published in

Mind Cafe

·May 22

Ten Life Lessons From My 20s: How To Not Crash And Burn By Age 30

I’m about to leave the decade of youth behind forever — Turning 30 is weird, man. In your twenties, you can keep up the illusion that you’re not really a grown-up yet. Some of your friends get fancy jobs and wear a suit, and others f%ck off to Bali. Everyone’s just kinda doing what feels right to them, and it seems…

Life Lessons

6 min read

Ten Life Lessons From My 20s: How To Not Crash And Burn By Age 30
Ten Life Lessons From My 20s: How To Not Crash And Burn By Age 30
Life Lessons

6 min read


Published in

ILLUMINATION

·Apr 17

How Bad Are Processed Foods Really?

This 1930s experiment showed exactly why we should all be worried… — Have you ever considered what will actually happen to us humans in the next hundred years or so if we keep eating the processed foods we are eating so much of today? It’s a curious question and likely not the first one to enter your mind whenever you find yourself…

Health

9 min read

How Bad Are Processed Foods Really?
How Bad Are Processed Foods Really?
Health

9 min read


Published in

Mind Cafe

·Mar 20

What Surfing Can Teach You About Life — 9 Lessons On The Art of Catching the Right Wave

Opportunities are not like busses — Life is funny. We spend much of it searching for the things that will make us happy and fulfilled. Then, when we find one such thing, it’s usually like discovering a part of us that was there all along… I was 28 years old when I first tried surfing. Compared…

Surfing

10 min read

What Surfing Can Teach You About Life — 9 Lessons On The Art of Catching the Right Wave
What Surfing Can Teach You About Life — 9 Lessons On The Art of Catching the Right Wave
Surfing

10 min read


Published in

ILLUMINATION

·Feb 2

Breath: The Missing Piece In the Health Puzzle

And how to fix your breathing for good — In health, we often talk about how to eat, sleep, move, and manage stress. Those are the big pillars, after all. But there is this one thing we do during all of those other activities: we breathe. …

Health

11 min read

Breath: The Missing Piece In the Health Puzzle
Breath: The Missing Piece In the Health Puzzle
Health

11 min read


Published in

Better Humans

·Dec 19, 2022

How To Achieve Effortless Daily Focus Using Your Biology

Follow your rhythms to get more done with less stress — In today’s noisy world, the ability to focus is our most valuable asset. We can sense this intuitively. But we don’t often consider what goes on “under the hood” to make focus possible. Instead of creating the right biological circumstances for focus to blossom, most of us reach for the…

Focus

8 min read

How To Achieve Effortless Daily Focus Using Your Biology
How To Achieve Effortless Daily Focus Using Your Biology
Focus

8 min read

Sebastian Hallqvist

Sebastian Hallqvist

2.4K Followers

Founder & CEO at holo.health. I write about the intersection of modern life and our natural state of being. Join me: https://sebastianhallqvist.substack.com

Following
  • Sean Kernan

    Sean Kernan

  • Dr Mehmet Yildiz

    Dr Mehmet Yildiz

  • Alex Mathers

    Alex Mathers

  • Alex Baia

    Alex Baia

  • Ayodeji Awosika

    Ayodeji Awosika

See all (40)

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech

Teams