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
Handling fear of criticism and rejection at work
Dr. Grace Lee
March 9, 2022
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Labeling feedback as criticism makes you its victim instantly.
Sensitivity to criticism reveals something you haven't owned about yourself.
Genuine curiosity replaces defensiveness — and keeps you professional.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Deep work, talent vs. technique, and the case for embracing boredom
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 7, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
7
Working smarter shapes your life — it won't make you world-class at anything.
Boredom tolerance is trainable; the crave-distraction loop kills deep focus.
Collaborative work counts as deep — the whiteboard effect often intensifies it.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Eight Stoic practices to make courage a daily habit
The Daily Stoic
March 6, 2022
Cowardice is always a choice — and always dangerous
JFK won an election with a few seconds of moral courage
Courage is the foundational Stoic virtue; all others depend on it
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Andrew Sullivan on the classics, independent thinking, and the dangers of social media
The Daily Stoic
March 5, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Deep work & focus
8
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Losing a shared classical canon makes liberal democracy itself fragile.
Audience capture turns independent thinkers into radicalized, angry partisans.
Social media's addictive design colonises the slow, deep mind the classics built.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Doing hard things: three practical tips from Brandon Sanderson
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 3, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Goal setting
7
Writing 13 manuscripts before selling one is normal, not failure.
Scheduling philosophy and ritual matter more than motivation or inspiration.
Living a deep life means acting on values despite anxiety, not after it vanishes.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Overthinking is the founder's biggest mistake: the midwit meme explained
Y Combinator
March 2, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Pivoting
5
The idiot approach and the genius approach are usually identical.
Fundraising, MVPs, co-founders: the midwit overcomplicates every decision.
Most startup ideas that worked started embarrassingly simple.
Is ambition worth it? A novelistic view of drive and its costs
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 28, 2022
Motivation
7
Productivity & habits
6
Deep work & focus
5
Ambition is a Paleolithic tribal instinct applied to a world of billions
Removing ambition leaves humans purposeless — pursuing it crowds out everything else
Career capital matters far more than how you chose your path
Productivity & habits
Podcast
TikTok, information overload, and deliberate practice in sales
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 24, 2022
Productivity & habits
8
Prospecting & outreach
5
TikTok signals the end of mandatory social media usage for everyone
A three-bucket system prevents information overload without willpower
Impressiveness in competitive admissions comes from depth, not activity count
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Arthur Brooks on happiness, professional decline, and the four true investments
The Daily Stoic
February 23, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Relationships & family
8
Work-life balance
7
Satisfaction equals haves divided by wants — managing wants is the only lever.
Money, power, prestige, and pleasure are false idols that compound dissatisfaction.
Success addiction is socially rewarded but structurally identical to any other addiction.
Work-life balance
Podcast
What is the deep life: a framework for radical alignment with your values
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 21, 2022
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
7
Goal setting
6
Radical change without values alignment leaves you miserable on a Pacific island
Keystone habits and bucket overhauls earn the right to make a radical shift
The deep life is systematic, not inspirational — built in stages over months
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Five journaling habits the Stoics used to think clearly
The Daily Stoic
February 20, 2022
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
Start with one sentence — the habit matters more than the content.
Physical paper outlasts digital files by centuries, not decades.
Externalising thoughts on paper creates distance that changes decisions.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Expect disruption twice a decade and prepare to profit from it
KeyPersonOfInfluence
February 18, 2022
Personal and economic shocks hit every 10 years — plan for both
Expecting disruption removes panic and unlocks better decisions
Crises are the best time to return to your business's first principles
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Why you keep watching others instead of starting your own thing
Silicon Valley Girl
February 17, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Vision & mission
6
Comparing yourself to others at point B while you're at point A is always invalid
Starting requires three things: self-belief, action, and understanding the system
People who discourage you are projecting their own inaction onto you
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Thinking for yourself, deep life tradeoffs, and the AR future
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 17, 2022
Productivity & habits
8
Work-life balance
6
Intellectual groupism weakens your beliefs; opposing views strengthen them.
Too many hobbies create more overhead than value — cut ruthlessly.
AR glasses will virtualize all devices, destroying most electronics companies.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Alexander the Great: lessons from history's most relentless conqueror
Founders
February 16, 2022
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
The same extreme traits that make founders unstoppable can destroy them
Alexander combined an excessive tolerance of fatigue with an intolerance of slowness
Darius executed the one advisor who told him the truth — and lost everything