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.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport on reading habits, deep work, and the deep life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 27, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Five books a month: Cal's exact system for making reading the default.
Discipline is freedom — and the foundation of a resilient life.
Taming email culture without imposing change on your colleagues.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Eleven stoic practices for building better habits
The Daily Stoic
December 26, 2021
Productivity & habits
10
Identity & self-belief
6
Resilience & grit
5
Why starting absurdly small beats ambitious resolutions every time
Identity shapes behaviour — decide who you are before picking habits
Stumbles are guaranteed; what compounds is coming back anyway
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How Cal Newport got his first book deal at 21
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 23, 2021
Deep work & focus
8
Productivity & habits
6
Get the real requirements from an insider before you start anything new
Deep life means radical alignment with values, not incremental self-improvement
Serving platform algorithms crowds out the craft that actually builds a career
Productivity & habits
Podcast
A weekly tech Sabbath ritual to reclaim rest from your devices
How I Work
December 20, 2021
Productivity & habits
8
Work-life balance
7
Automation & tools
6
Shutting off all devices for 24 hours each week reduces compulsive checking.
Ritual and a friend's accountability make the tech Sabbath actually stick.
Motion.io merges task lists and calendar into one dopamine-friendly workflow.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport's process for writing New Yorker articles and managing context
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 16, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Mixing email contexts in one inbox drains cognitive energy silently.
Processing after every meeting beats end-of-day shutdown overwhelm.
New Yorker columns written in one weekday morning and a Sunday session.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to fix a leaking productivity system and study effectively
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 13, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Processes & SOPs
5
A leaky system is a trust problem — one hour fixes it.
Track 3 daily metrics before attempting full planning systems.
90-minute deep work blocks yield far more output than 60-minute ones.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Seven stoic principles Ryan Holiday returns to most
The Daily Stoic
December 12, 2021
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Every obstacle is raw material — convert it, don't endure it.
Ego blocks learning; confidence requires knowing your weaknesses.
Remembering death daily clarifies priorities and removes trivialities.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Coping with a hyperactive job: listener Q&A on deep work and career
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 9, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
7
Clarity about interaction structures beats raw accessibility almost every time.
Enduring a hyperactive job for the salary is a trap — leave instead.
Automate recurring work by scheduling it once and never re-deciding.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport on reading habits, career traps, and managing information overload
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 6, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Getting good at the wrong skill creates a trap that's hard to escape.
Let active projects pull your reading — never maintain a backlog.
A small number of reliable sources beats drowning in real-time feeds.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Autopilot scheduling, hyperactive hive mind alternatives, and Trello organisation
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 2, 2021
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
7
Deep work & focus
6
Fixed time-slots for recurring tasks eliminate repeated scheduling decisions.
Replace ad hoc messaging with deferral, automation, or externalization workflows.
Evolving study habits through experimentation beats working harder.
Work-life balance
Podcast
Remote work makes rural living a realistic option for knowledge workers
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 29, 2021
Work-life balance
8
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity & habits
5
The McKibben rural escape is now an instruction manual, not just aspiration.
Lower rural expenses mean working less, not just working from somewhere prettier.
Autonomy requires career capital — rare skills are the currency to buy it.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport answers listener questions on time, work, and family
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 25, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Publishers rarely reject good manuscripts over low social media following.
Push-based work allocation reliably overloads every knowledge worker by 20%.
Dependability and quality in year one unlock faster career growth than anything else.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to discover what you actually want from life
Silicon Valley Girl
November 25, 2021
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
5
Social media replaces your real goals with other people's highlight reels
Muting accounts reveals which ambitions are genuinely yours
Writing goals down turns vague wants into a reliable decision filter
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Johan Cruyff: how intelligence and obsession built total football
Founders
November 25, 2021
Resilience & grit
8
Management
6
Deep work & focus
5
Cruyff built his edge through tactics, not physical superiority.
Leaving his sport cost him millions — returning saved his career.
Every great result was a consequence of process, not a goal.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Building a Consistent Reading Life with Intention and Self-Awareness
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 22, 2021
Reading inertia: being mid-book is easy; starting the next one kills most habits
Why you abandoned a book tells you more about your taste than what you finished
Simple log-keeping reveals reading patterns invisible when tracking it mentally