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
Podcast
Keeping the Stoic rhythm: returning to philosophy when you drift
The Daily Stoic
December 9, 2025
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Drift is inevitable — the practice is catching yourself quickly
Busyness is often avoidance: staying stimulated to escape self-scrutiny
Philosophy is a tool you carry, not a subject you study
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Twyla Tharp on discipline, creativity, and the body as instrument
Andrew Huberman
December 8, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Physical & cognitive performance
6
Why showing up when you don't want to is the only creative habit that matters
Every work needs a single spine — one central idea that organises everything else
Movement precedes language; the body is where real thinking begins
Productivity & habits
YouTube
High performance habits and the pursuit of step-change progress
Brendon Burchard
December 8, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Goal setting
5
Losing two hours a day to distraction costs 100+ work days a year.
Personality and strengths matter less than your daily habits for long-term success.
Step-change results require anticipating the next level and designing habits for it now.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to identify and replace the lies you tell yourself at work
Coaching for Leaders
December 8, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
The label 'I am dumb' held Claude Silver back until age 35.
A three-step LIE framework turns negative self-talk into a testable lie.
Replacing the lie only sticks when you make the truth a daily mantra.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Not everything is for you — and grief must be faced, not avoided
The Daily Stoic
December 8, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Most criticism of art forgets: it was never made for you
Stoics felt deeply — they just refused to be paralysed
The only way out of grief is through it, not around it
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Coding in 2026 is still a high-leverage skill worth learning
Rob Walling
December 7, 2025
Productivity & habits
8
AI tools & automation
6
AI still can't handle the last 10–20% of real application complexity
Coding literacy improves almost every non-developer office role too
The bottleneck isn't tools or cost — it's motivation and discipline
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Why Stoicism keeps returning across 2,000 years of history
The Daily Stoic
December 7, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Mental health & wellbeing
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Stoicism resurges in turbulent times because it addresses permanent human needs
CBT and REBT are almost direct translations of Epictetus into modern therapy
Stockdale survived Vietnamese imprisonment by literally living Epictetus
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Ryan Holiday on ambition, enough, and keeping perspective
The Daily Stoic
December 6, 2025
Motivation
9
Founder interviews
8
Why the number always moves — even for billionaires.
Grant, Twain, and the trap of assuming skills transfer.
Finding euphoria in the work, not the launch or the reviews.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Education in the AI era: when a degree is worth it and when it is not
Silicon Valley Girl
December 5, 2025
Identity & self-belief
8
Long-term planning
7
Deep work & focus
6
Entry-level jobs are vanishing as AI handles 50–60% of junior tasks
Deep mastery of hard things beats credentials in the AI job market
A five-step roadmap replaces the default college-or-nothing path
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
No one is truly self-made: Stoic philosophy on success and virtue
The Daily Stoic
December 5, 2025
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
6
Relationships & family
5
Every great achiever — from Zeno to Schwarzenegger — was made by others.
Stoic 'circles of concern' means caring beyond what you control.
AI can't replace wisdom: experience is what catches confident wrong answers.
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
Lessons from Charles Poliquin and other mentors on movement and strength
Tim Ferriss
December 5, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Physical health & longevity
6
Poliquin's regret: he wished he'd trained flexibility far sooner
Trace ideas to their source — the backwards sled came from Finnish loggers
Low-volume ankle work done consistently beat years of high-effort rehab
Physical & cognitive performance
YouTube
The neuroscience of habit formation and breaking
Andrew Huberman
December 4, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
9
Productivity & habits
7
Why anchoring habits to brain states beats fixed clock times
The post-habit window is the only reliable way to break bad habits
Sleep consolidates habits — neglect phase three and nothing sticks
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How much your dream is worth when others want you to change it
Brendon Burchard
December 4, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Case studies
7
Resilience & grit
6
A $2M publisher demanded a full rewrite — he said no
Depth and obsession separate breakthrough work from mediocrity
One person's belief can be enough to keep going
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Why fear of losing is the real reason you're not winning
GaryVee
December 4, 2025
Resilience & grit
10
Identity & self-belief
7
Goal setting
5
Fear of being seen to fail is why most people never start.
TikTok Shop and live selling work even with zero followers.
Renting beats buying when homeownership drains liquidity and kills flexibility.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Emotions, truth, and wisdom in a noisy information age
The Daily Stoic
December 4, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Deep work & focus
5
Uncontrolled emotions make you stupid, regardless of intelligence.
Historical grounding separates truth from real-time noise and disinformation.
Platforms carry responsibility — interviewing extremists is an endorsement.