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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.

Subcategories

Communication 1 item Continuous learning 1 item Deep work & focus 636 items Discipline & habits 1 item Discipline and foundation 1 item Goal setting 256 items Gratitude & self-belief 1 item Habits 1 item Habits & identity 1 item Identity & self-belief 1071 items Identity & self-belief, Resilience & grit 1 item Identity & self-belief, Work-life balance, Motivation 1 item Motivation 180 items Physical & cognitive performance 87 items Productivity & habits 971 items Resilience & grit 991 items Resilience & grit, Identity & self-belief 1 item Resilience & grit, Productivity & habits, Motivation 1 item Time management 104 items Work-life balance 200 items

Deep Dives

1:1 Meetings

This Deep Dive explains what a true 1:1 meeting is, why it improves both employee engagement and managerial performance, what cadence and duration work best, how to keep the meeting owned by the direct report rather than drifting into status updates, and how to structure, run, and evaluate 1:1s so they become a real management system rather than a calendar ritual.

Leadership Mindset

Advisories

The moment your startup mindset becomes a liability to your growing business

The behaviours that got your business to where it is are not the same behaviours that will take it further. Most founders know this in the abstract. What is harder — and what this Advisory addresses — is recognising when the transition is already overdue, what specifically needs to change, and why the hardest part of the whole thing is not redesigning the organisation but changing how you personally operate within it.

Mindset Leadership

Digests

Identity & self-belief

YouTube

Ten years of therapy: lessons, frameworks, and when to go

Noah Kagan October 7, 2020

Identity & self-belief 9
Work-life balance 6
Resilience & grit 5
  • Therapy works best when you bring specific problems, not open topics.
  • Good therapists reflect your behaviour back — they never tell you what to do.
  • Fulfilment isn't at the next level; it's already available right now.
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Motivation

Podcast

Practical strategies for motivation, collaboration, and productivity in lockdown

How I Work October 7, 2020

Motivation 9
Resilience & grit 7
Communication 6
  • Autonomy, mastery, or connection: diagnosing which is missing fixes most slumps.
  • Phone beats video for hard conversations and genuine emotional reading.
  • Six five-minute movement breaks outperform one long break for sustained energy.
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Productivity & habits

YouTube

Nine business and life lessons from mountain biking

Noah Kagan October 5, 2020

Productivity & habits 9
Resilience & grit 7
  • Why practising deliberately beats just playing the game
  • First time hard, second time easy — fear shrinks the moment you act
  • Smile at the suffering: reframe hard work as something to lean into
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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Household Productivity, Delegation, and Deep Hobbies

Deep Questions with Cal Newport October 5, 2020

Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 7
Work-life balance 5
  • Automate household tasks and create trusted capture systems to eliminate cognitive burden
  • Delegate selectively: focus on reduction instead for solo operators like professors
  • Digital minimalism applies to personal life; reshape work using career capital when unfulfilled
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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Managing deep work habits: scheduling, overwhelm, and emotional regulation

Deep Questions with Cal Newport October 1, 2020

Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 7
  • Quarterly plans — not weekly — are where deliberate practice goals belong.
  • Work is hard by design; stop chasing flow states, embrace the difficulty.
  • A daily background rate of depth beats waiting for perfect conditions.
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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Cal Newport and Ryan Holiday on deep work, reading, and the decline of long-form thinking

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 28, 2020

Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 7
  • A note-card system built over 14 years pays off in unexpected books
  • No new generation of nonfiction writers — they all have podcasts instead
  • One unchallengeable theory is infinitely more dangerous than two competing ones
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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Time blocking, note-taking, active recall, and how to sell a nonfiction book

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 24, 2020

Productivity & habits 9
Deep work & focus 7
  • Start time blocking with rough blocks, not abbreviated ones
  • Quarterly planning is where big-goal decisions actually belong
  • Never write the nonfiction book first — pitch the agent, then write
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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Ten mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make and how to avoid them

Noah Kagan September 23, 2020

Resilience & grit 8
Prospecting & outreach 7
Customer discovery 6
  • Find paying customers before building anything — always.
  • Your day job is your investor; don't quit until $1k/month.
  • Courses and trending niches are procrastination in disguise.
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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Cal Newport's daily routine, deep work habits, and digital minimalism in a pandemic

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 20, 2020

Deep work & focus 10
Productivity & habits 9
  • Two keystone habits — scheduled deep work blocks and no distraction apps — build the foundation.
  • Hyper-distraction days sabotage concentration days; cognitive fitness requires consistency.
  • Lasting lifestyle change needs bucket rotations, not one-off tips.
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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Habit tune-up: eureka moments, capture systems, and fixing email overload

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 17, 2020

Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 8
Processes & SOPs 6
  • Ideas are a numbers game — hours thinking beats more inputs
  • Add friction to email senders to protect receivers' attention at scale
  • One notebook, zero apps: why capture must be frictionless
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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Cal Newport's planning system, Slack's hidden cost, and building a deep life in your 20s

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 14, 2020

Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • Slack fixes email anxiety but makes context-switching dramatically worse
  • Satisfaction comes from daily craft and discipline, not reaching milestones
  • Planning works at daily, weekly, and quarterly scales — monthly adds nothing
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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Cal Newport's fall schedule, deep work habits, and how to handle distraction

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 10, 2020

Deep work & focus 10
Productivity & habits 8
  • Dropping planning systems under deadline pressure costs more than it saves.
  • Checking markets every 15 minutes destroys study performance — no workaround exists.
  • Collaborative meetings can produce deeper focus than solo work via social pressure.
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Resilience & grit

YouTube

How leaders can build lasting happiness without waiting for success

Bill Gallagher September 9, 2020

Resilience & grit 9
Management 7
Work-life balance 6
  • Deferring happiness to a future milestone is the most common entrepreneur trap.
  • Meditation, gratitude journaling, and body check-ins cost nothing and work.
  • The time-anger gap: you choose how long negative emotion runs your day.
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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Andy Andrews on focus, self-honesty, and perspective as a choice

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life September 8, 2020

Identity & self-belief 9
Deep work & focus 7
Mental health & wellbeing 5
  • Worry is focus — just aimed at completely the wrong target.
  • Self-deception wastes more time and money than anything else.
  • Perspective isn't how you see things — it's how you choose to.
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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Cal Newport on deep work habits, student scheduling, and building a meaningful career

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 6, 2020

Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 7
Content marketing 5
  • Set hard work boundaries first — pressure forces better productivity systems.
  • Why your deep-to-shallow ratio must be explicit and team-approved.
  • The $20 million question reveals the career traits that actually matter.
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