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.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Why habits fail for most people and what to do instead
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 21, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
5
Health and weight loss are weak motivators for the majority of people
Rigid habit loops break down for complex behaviours — flexibility outperforms precision
The POP tool turns plan disruption into a sustainable 'joy choice'
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Five habits that destroy a founder's time and momentum
Dan Martell
November 21, 2022
Productivity & habits
10
Delegation
6
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Delaying decisions costs more than making the wrong one
Penny-pinching on expert help keeps you doing low-value work
Self-medicating after big weeks silently kills your best days
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Dr. Sue Johnson on emotionally focused therapy and lasting relationships
The Daily Stoic
November 16, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Communication
6
Suppressing emotions delays the explosion — lasting regulation means befriending them first.
Most relationship conflict is about fear of not mattering, not the stated issue.
Secure attachment in leaders produces more cohesive, resilient, lower-burnout teams.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Why silence is essential for health, creativity, and deep work
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 14, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Silence grows brain cells — more than music or white noise.
Noise is society's most celebrated addiction, by economic design.
Taking your to-do list on a hike can erase five months of work.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
What hunter-gatherers reveal about why modern work feels broken
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 14, 2022
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Three specific mismatches between our Paleolithic wiring and knowledge work explain burnout
Teenage smartphone bans work — students report relief within weeks, not months
Perfectionism on the wrong tasks actively harms your career trajectory
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Paul Graham's essays on thinking, working, and building startups
Founders
November 9, 2022
Deep work & focus
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Niche selection
6
Curiosity beats discipline — follow what you're curious about, not just what you love
Schlepp blindness hides the best startup ideas by making hard problems invisible
Founders repeatedly ignore the problem that will actually kill their company
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Nine rules for making time and managing energy across the week
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 7, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
7
Three times a week counts as a habit — ditch the daily-or-nothing trap.
One big and one small weekly adventure prevents years vanishing into memory sinkholes.
Do effortful leisure before screens to reclaim hours lost to mindless scrolling.
Work-life balance
Podcast
Can parents do deep work? A psychological approach to work-family tension
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 7, 2022
Work-life balance
10
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
6
We engineer chronic mild stress to give ourselves permission to say no.
Multiple roles enrich each other through skill transfer, buffering, and added meaning.
External fixes don't resolve internal conflict — values clarification must come first.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to choose the right career coach using the SMART framework
Dr. Grace Lee
November 5, 2022
Identity & self-belief
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Resonance with a coach matters more than their credentials.
Match the coach's specialty to your exact career goal first.
Teaching plus mentoring plus coaching compounds into role-specific growth.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
A sense of urgency: act with deliberate speed
The Daily Stoic
November 3, 2022
Resilience & grit
8
Productivity & habits
6
Excellence demands attacking each task with focused urgency, not frenzy.
Treat life's hardships as prescribed treatments, not unwanted obstacles.
You have roughly 4,000 weeks; make something meaningful of each.
Two types of ambition: choosing activity or simplicity after success
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 1, 2022
Goal setting
9
Case studies
6
Success reveals your ambition type — feast on opportunities or ruthlessly simplify
Grisham wrote one book a year, 15 hours a week, and needed no assistant
Escaping the second control trap requires a quantitative conversation with your manager
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to decide if you should start a startup
Y Combinator
November 1, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Long-term planning
5
Resilience predicts founder success far better than confidence or credentials
Living with the worst case — one low-pay year — is the real readiness test
Find a co-founder by building side projects with people who energize you
Rethinking goal setting through identity, capacity, and practice
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
October 31, 2022
Goal setting
10
Work-life balance
7
Why chasing merit badges for self-worth leads to burnout cycles
Your identity is a network — over-indexing one layer depletes the rest
Treating work as practice beats sprinting toward achievement targets
Six startup mistakes that killed PricingBot and built ScrapingBee
Rob Walling
October 27, 2022
Time management
9
Productivity & habits
8
A paying customer is the only real validation — everything else is noise.
Commit to one acquisition channel long enough to hit the compounding phase.
Consistency at the wrong thing compounds failure; know when to quit.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Kobe Bryant's Mamba Mentality: obsession, study, and relentless improvement
Founders
October 26, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
7
Greatness is built in private through obsessive, unglamorous work.
Kobe systematically sought out legends to download their knowledge.
Identify your weaknesses ruthlessly — then fix them until they're gone.