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.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Crisis as turning point: choosing a victorious response
Bill Gallagher
July 4, 2022
Resilience & grit
8
Communication
5
Crisis literally means turning point — your response decides the outcome.
The refiner's river transforms good people into trusted, courageous leaders.
Stop looking sideways; focus locks in after crossing the river.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Taming meetings, kids and tech, and building cognitive fitness
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 4, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Productivity & habits
5
Four concrete tools to reclaim a calendar overrun by meetings
Delay smartphones until 16-17 — the evidence on adolescent harm is clear
Focus is a trainable skill, not a fixed trait anyone is born with
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
True freedom is mastery of yourself, not your circumstances
The Daily Stoic
July 4, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Resilience & grit
7
Epictetus the slave was freer than Seneca the billionaire
Wealth, status, and followers are just slower chains
Stoics held that humans are born inclined to virtue — protect it
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Five practical hacks for breaking out of your comfort zone
Dr. Grace Lee
July 2, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Goal setting
6
Comfort zone dependence silently caps your capability and resourcefulness
Burning your fallback plan creates the urgency goals alone never generate
Rebalancing assumptions about comfort dissolves fear of leaving it
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to overcome limiting beliefs and get what you want in life
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
June 27, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Productivity & habits
5
Your origin story silently drives self-sabotage — until you name it
Clarity comes before confidence, not after — start before you're ready
Boundaries aren't about others; they're about enforcing your own limits
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stop meditating on death and start letting it change how you live
The Daily Stoic
June 27, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Knowing you'll die changes nothing — acting on it changes everything.
Obstacles can't block your intentions, only your actions.
Every setback is raw material for practising courage, patience, or wisdom.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Seven stoic strategies for being creative
The Daily Stoic
June 26, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Seneca and other Stoics were prolific artists who prove creativity is actionable discipline.
Build creative power through daily habits, protected autonomy, and deliberate training.
Rest and stillness unlock breakthroughs your working hours alone cannot generate.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Drawing on Courage: Navigating fear and everyday bravery
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
June 20, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Courage is mastery of fear, not its absence—act despite the risk.
Four-stop journey reveals where you're stuck: fear, values, action, change.
Clarify your purpose to surf the wave of fear instead of drowning in it.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
The return of Kevin Kelly's "1000 True Fans" and making a living online
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
June 20, 2022
Deep work & focus
8
Content marketing
7
Productivity & habits
6
Social media killed creator economics — two shifts are reversing it
10,000 paying subscribers can fund a full-time independent news show
Test your business idea with real money before quitting your job
Work-life balance
Podcast
Above all else, invest in friendship
Masters of Scale
June 18, 2022
Work-life balance
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Real friends reveal your blind spots and expand your worldview
The right friend at the right moment redirects your entire path
Helping friends deepens your sense of purpose and belonging
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Four practical ways to build self-awareness as a leader
Dr. Grace Lee
June 18, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
5
Why you must ask unasked questions to know yourself
How to choose problems that fuel resilience and motivation
Your real values drive decisions — not the ones you wish you had
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Socrates: lessons on clear thinking, courage, and the examined life
Founders
June 17, 2022
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
6
Most received opinions collapse under a single probing question.
Denying the body and feeding the soul was Socrates' entire life strategy.
He chose death over exile — Athens without freedom was no life at all.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Feedback councils, the deep life, and how to direct human action
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
June 13, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Productivity & habits
7
Deep work & focus
5
Social media hijacks your brain's feedback system with biased, bad-faith signals.
Radical alignment — not small tweaks — separates a deep life from a good one.
Curate a diverse trusted council; ignore Twitter, random emails, and angry DMs.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport on deep work, tech trends, and building a focused life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
June 10, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Work-life balance
6
Disrupted context produces worse thinking, not just slower output.
Separate your workspace from home — most remote workers underestimate this.
AR convergence will end consumer electronics as we know it.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Unsubscribing from validation, vanity metrics, and external expectations
Sunny Lenarduzzi
June 7, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Goal setting
6
Chasing subscriber counts led directly to burnout and lost purpose
A 'boring, predictable' business outperforms hustle and shiny-object chasing
Narrowing your audience focus creates more impact, not less reach