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
Prioritizing tasks, structuring leisure, and building knowledge over information
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 12, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Consolidate all task decisions into one morning planning session.
Structure weekends with big rocks, not time blocks, to avoid burnout.
Information breeds tribalism; knowledge requires studying the best counter-arguments.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Managing attention, productivity systems, and building character intentionally
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 9, 2020
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Constant feed-checking makes you cognitively impaired without realising it.
GTD captures well; time block planning beats it for daily control.
Character is trainable — track it daily like a professional metric.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport on digital minimalism, deep work, and rebuilding your tech relationship
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 5, 2020
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Strip your phone to 2008 basics — remove anything profiting from your attention.
A 30-day tech reset works only if you actively rebuild, not just abstain.
Shallow frenetic work is exhausting; deep focus matches how the brain evolved.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How Ashutosh Priyadarshy designs a focused, bullshit-free workday
How I Work
November 4, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
If a task is two steps from your goal, it's probably bullshit
Separate meeting days from deep work days to eliminate context-switching
Two-day sprints force creative problem-solving and faster learning
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport answers work, technology, and deep life questions
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 2, 2020
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
8
Why grad school is almost never a good holding pattern
Three things agents actually need before signing a nonfiction author
FIRE retirees reveal what humans crave when truly unconstrained
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Habit tune-up: notebooks, quarterly planning, focus, and burnout
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 29, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Resilience & grit
7
Shallow work expands to fill time — constraining it deliberately frees depth
Burnout needs two fixes: less difficulty and more intrinsic motivation
Productive meditation trains focus better than mindfulness for work distractions
Work-life balance
Podcast
How valuing time over money leads to a happier, less stressed life
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
October 27, 2020
Work-life balance
9
Mental health & wellbeing
7
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Outsourcing one disliked task monthly equals a $12,000 happiness raise
Shifting focus to time over money boosts happiness without changing behaviour
Major life decisions give a short happiness boost; daily micro-habits sustain it
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How David Epstein built a career by learning across disciplines
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 26, 2020
Identity & self-belief
9
Deep work & focus
8
Long-term planning
6
Why Gladwell's 10,000-hour rule obscures more than it reveals
Taking a skill somewhere it's rare makes you extraordinary overnight
A monthly five-question journal that stops career autopilot
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Habit tune-up: planning, home offices, and demanding jobs
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 22, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Weekly planning reveals scheduling opportunities daily planning always misses.
A distinctive home office triggers a work mindset — invest boldly.
In finance, productivity systems build the career capital that eventually buys autonomy.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Friction, flow, and finalization: navigating creative work and the deep life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 19, 2020
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
7
Friction isn't failure — it's the essential first stage of all creative work
Imposing your productivity system on others kills it; running it invisibly works
Tech companies can't be forced ethical — train users to deploy technology intentionally
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Finding meaning through projects, perspective, and community
Noah Kagan
October 18, 2020
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Frankl's three-part formula: project, optimistic suffering, community
The 'if it weren't for me' exercise reveals your irreplaceable impact
Building a company is building a community — pressure forces growth
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport habit Q&A: life admin, deep practice, reading, and metric tracking
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 15, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Time block planning survives unpredictable days better than any perfect schedule
Two chapters a day rebuilds lost reading focus within two months
Paper metric tracking captures 90% of the benefit with near-zero friction
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Deep work, quitting Facebook, and thinking independently in the information age
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 12, 2020
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Facebook's shift to newsfeeds accidentally killed its own network-effect advantage.
Exposure to information is not the same as actually knowing something.
Managers need sequentiality, not deep work — and email destroys both.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building kindness as a practice, not a personality trait
Noah Kagan
October 11, 2020
Identity & self-belief
7
Public speaking
6
3,000 people walked past a crying woman. Not one stopped.
Nice is reactive; kindness is proactive — and that gap is learnable.
One man sent 6,000 postcards. His daughters remembered nothing else.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Household productivity, task tools, and the reality of writing
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 9, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Processes & SOPs
6
A physical collection box plus weekly planning eliminates household stress.
OmniFocus vs Trello: choose the tool with least friction for your needs.
Writer's block is what professionals simply call writing — everyone feels it.