Mindset
About this category
Content whose primary subject is how an individual manages their own psychology, focus, habits, or relationship with work. The unit of change is the *person themselves*, not their business or team.
Showing 2363 articles for Mindset.
How high-performing CEOs design their calendar for maximum output
Dan Martell
October 23, 2023
Time management
9
Deep work & focus
6
Your first 90 minutes should attack your single top priority.
Context switching costs 20x more time than focused batching.
Stack two goals into one time slot with 'net time'.
How to avoid regret: annual planning, slow compounding, and taking risks
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 23, 2023
Goal setting
9
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity & habits
6
Annual planning bridges vague life visions and concrete weekly action.
Why social media is a collective trap no one can escape alone.
Only high-stakes attempts generate enough energy to change your trajectory.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Why Fear of Failure — Not Lack of Talent — Kills Most Entrepreneurs
GaryVee
October 23, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Founder interviews
8
Vision & mission
5
Entrepreneurship is public — failure can't be hidden like in corporate life
Eighth-place trophies teach kids that losing is shameful, not survivable
Defaulting to 'no' on new technology is the only guaranteed losing formula
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Rockefeller's letters to his son: lessons from a conqueror's private words
Founders
October 21, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Management
8
Competitive analysis
7
Rockefeller's unfiltered private letters reveal a ruthless conqueror's true mindset.
Why self-belief, not luck or talent, was his actual engine of success.
His multi-pronged attack strategy: always target the strongest competitor first.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Peter Attia on perfectionism, presence, and emotional health
The Daily Stoic
October 21, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Deep work & focus
7
Founder interviews
6
The trait that drives success often becomes the source of chronic misery.
Attia spent seven years avoiding the emotional chapter his book required.
Outcome-detachment feels unreasonable — but it is the only path to mastery.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Passion, self-awareness, and competing on your own terms
GaryVee
October 20, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Someone who loves your industry will always outwork you
Self-awareness beats ambition — you may be a great number two
Competition is mostly internal fear, not an external threat
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Small daily progress and building a career only you can have
The Daily Stoic
October 19, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Long-term planning
6
One meaningful action per day compounds more than most people expect.
Career clarity comes from knowing what you want your days to look like.
Do what only you can do — competition becomes irrelevant.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Four PM growth lessons from a Silicon Valley mentor
EO
October 18, 2023
Judge yourself by what you choose to do, not what you can do.
Go straight at the hardest thing you've been avoiding.
Small deliberate tweaks to your calendar beat a career change for burnout.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How music shapes productivity, mood, and time perception
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
October 16, 2023
Deep work & focus
8
Productivity & habits
7
Music physically alters time perception — the same hours feel shorter
Self-awareness of your current state determines which music to pick
BrainFM uses neural phase locking to lock your brain into focus mode
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Overcoming super distractions by treating their root cause
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 16, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Super distractions are pain relief, not entertainment — treat the pain instead
Cold-turkey abstinence fails; replacing psychic pain sources is what works
NPR left Twitter; traffic dropped just 1% — social media matters far less than assumed
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Winning on social media requires consistency, self-awareness, and loving the process
GaryVee
October 13, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Social media
7
Motivation
6
Low follower counts mean your content isn't resonating — change it.
Organic social is the highest-ROI free distribution channel available today.
Falling in love with losing is the real competitive edge in entrepreneurship.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Self-compassion and attention as the foundation of productive work
GaryVee
October 12, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Content marketing
7
Culture building
5
Removing self-judgment — not better systems — is the real productivity multiplier.
Media and creative must share one roof for true sales accountability.
Day trading attention means paying only for impressions people actually consume.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Stoic obsession with living, not death: Ryan Holiday on memento mori and daily practice
The Daily Stoic
October 12, 2023
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
6
Memento mori is a tool for urgency and gratitude, not morbidity.
Ancient Stoic problems map directly onto modern stress and distraction.
One small habit beats scripting your whole life — start there.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Six morning habits for entrepreneurs using the SAVERS framework
Cameron Herold
October 11, 2023
Productivity & habits
10
Delegation
5
Six-step SAVERS acronym structures a high-leverage entrepreneur morning
Daily scribing is the habit that makes all other habits stick
Growing your team's confidence scales the company faster than self-improvement alone
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Completing a 50K ultra marathon after wildfire forces race cancellation
Dan Martell
October 9, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Motivation
8
Case studies
6
When the race is cancelled, design your own course and show up anyway
Self-knowledge only comes from the last 10% of a hard effort
Kids don't listen to what you say — they watch what you do