Mindset
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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.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How your internal narrator shapes your results and how to change it
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
January 23, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
5
Your brain narrates every event — and that story isn't fact
Three steps to identify, interrogate, and replace disempowering stories
Neural pathways are reversible — focused thinking cuts new ones
Work-life balance
Podcast
Why workday characteristics matter as much as job content
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 23, 2023
Work-life balance
9
Long-term planning
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Lumberjacks outrank lawyers on happiness despite perilous, low-meaning work.
Setting, stress load, clarity, and control shape work experience more than job title.
Career capital — not passion — is what lets you negotiate better workday conditions.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Power, restraint, and the daily practice of getting better
The Daily Stoic
January 23, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Most people never examine the power they hold over others
Seneca's daily review: put each day up for honest reflection
Small daily improvements compound into a fundamentally different life
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Practical advice on business, passion, and self-belief from Gary Vee
GaryVee
January 19, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Pitching investors
5
Why others' opinions keep you stuck — and how to stop it
Passion first, monetisation second: the sequence most people get backwards
Never quit with no answer — but not searching for one is equally unacceptable
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How self-focus blocks commitment and what to do instead
Bill Gallagher
January 17, 2023
Identity & self-belief
8
Closing techniques
7
Communication
6
Your own self-doubt is the biggest obstacle to getting yes
Childhood wiring silently drives adult business behaviour
Redirecting focus to others produces more commitment and action
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How Gary Vaynerchuk finally committed to health at 39
GaryVee
January 17, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
8
Work-life balance
6
Why accountability to someone else beats self-discipline every time
Training for mobility at 90, not aesthetics — and never enjoying it
Food quality over calorie counting: organs, grass-finished beef, 80% clean
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Seven stoic keys to happiness and healthy boundaries
The Daily Stoic
January 17, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Deep work & focus
5
Happiness emerges from virtue and inner discipline, not external achievement or approval
Healthy boundaries protect your identity and enable the inner work that leads to flourishing
Contentment with what you have—enough—is the foundation of Stoic wellbeing
Work-life balance
Podcast
Using work cycles and cooldowns to prevent knowledge worker burnout
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 16, 2023
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
8
Deep work & focus
6
Always-available work plus no productivity structure guarantees chronic overwork.
Basecamp's six-week cycles with two-week cooldowns outperform year-round all-out effort.
Stealth cycles, income floors, and a celebration bucket build long-term sustainability.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How Buffett and Munger think: simplicity, inversion, and staying rational
Founders
January 16, 2023
Deep work & focus
9
Long-term planning
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Long attention span beats high IQ — Munger's actual competitive edge
Wisdom is prevention: structure life so mistakes don't kill you
Say no to almost everything; protect time to think and read
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How a Calm Mind Increases Productivity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
January 15, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Resilience & grit
5
Burnout is a structural problem across six work factors, not a willpower failure.
Stimulation fasts recalibrate your dopamine baseline, deepening focus and presence.
Calm activates brain networks for deliberate action; anxiety only narrows your options.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Don't disgrace yourself: Stoic integrity and self-accountability
The Daily Stoic
January 13, 2023
Seneca and Bacon wasted brilliant lives by compromising for ambition.
Hold yourself to the strictest standard; extend tolerance to everyone else.
Reading only what confirms your views stops you examining your own assumptions.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Six productivity hacks for busy founders and executives
Neil Patel
January 12, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Automation & tools
6
Cap meetings at 30 minutes to force preparation and eliminate rambling.
Batch content creation to compress a month's output into hours.
Becoming less involved — not less committed — removes you as a bottleneck.
How to set smarter startup goals and avoid common traps
Y Combinator
January 11, 2023
Goal setting
9
Business models
6
Fake metrics let founders avoid measuring whether anything actually works
Winning the fundraising game often means losing control of your company
Cheating to hit a goal means you learned nothing — and you know it
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Holistic self-improvement: why fixing one thing can break everything
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 9, 2023
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Succeeding at a narrow goal often makes the rest of your life worse
Design an upgraded lifestyle as a whole system, not a list of resolutions
Ritual, environment, and symbolic objects are legitimate tools for creative work
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Don't join the mob: Stoic principles on political violence and daily habits
The Daily Stoic
January 6, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Political mobs have destroyed republics since ancient Rome — history repeats.
Stoics held that separating yourself from the mob is philosophy's core purpose.
Your daily habits — not willpower — determine the quality of your output.