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.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Practicing gentleness over anger: a Stoic guide for an imperfect world
The Daily Stoic
July 15, 2024
Anger makes situations worse — gentleness is the stronger response.
Marcus Aurelius chose pragmatic engagement over cynicism or retreat.
Redirect rage: delegate, depersonalise, and skip the last word.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Nine Stoic strategies for overcoming procrastination
The Daily Stoic
July 14, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Resilience & grit
5
Procrastination is an emotion problem, not time management; perfectionism and fear paralyze action.
Nine concrete tactics: focus on the next small step, build routines, use counterforce.
Remember you will die today; mortality creates urgency and clarifies what truly matters.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Five habits to optimize your brain and mental performance
Brendon Burchard
July 11, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
7
One hard workout per week shifts brain function more than daily moderate effort.
Self-worth, confidence, and motivation are patterns of self-talk — not fixed traits.
Stagnation kills mental health even in people who are physically fit.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Ditching the smartphone: lessons from 200 days with a flip phone
How I Work
July 10, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
200 days without a smartphone sharpened thinking and creativity dramatically
Messaging friction on flip phones quietly eroded real-world relationships
Factory reset your iPhone and reinstall only tools — no entertainment
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to build a journaling practice rooted in Stoic philosophy
The Daily Stoic
July 9, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations for himself — not for readers
Paper outlasts devices: da Vinci's notebooks beat your old iPhone
Start with one sentence a day — momentum beats ambition every time
Work-life balance
Podcast
Building spiritual practices across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual rhythms
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 8, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
6
Create a rule of life with five time cycles—daily to annual—to prevent burnout and build presence.
Monthly desert days (9–4 off-site, phone-free) unlock insight through radical understimulation and no expectations.
Start with one rhythm you can actually protect; let it teach you what you need before adding others.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Reclaiming the quiet mind in a phone-saturated world
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 8, 2024
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
9
Smartphones eliminate the brain state humans need most.
Four tactics break the constant-companion phone habit.
Concentrated work sessions beat weekly check-in meetings every time.
Finding direction, meaning, and motivation when you feel lost
Dan Martell
July 6, 2024
Motivation
9
Goal setting
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Your purpose lives right next to the worst thing that happened to you.
Dark energy proves people wrong; light energy multiplies your output tenfold.
Retirement at peak wisdom is the worst time to exit the market.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Health and performance: the common enemies blocking your energy
Brendon Burchard
July 5, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
6
Most stress is self-manufactured — you can decide to stop producing it.
Seed oils in snacks silently destroy your gut, hormones, and energy.
Superiority and stubbornness block health change more than ignorance does.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Ron Howard on evolving your creative vision through constant change
Masters of Scale
July 4, 2024
Why constraints are leverage, not limits, for realising your vision
How a failed streaming startup directly spawned Arrested Development
Saying no to powerful partners who pull you away from your core vision
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Five productivity rules for founders balancing business and family
Silicon Valley Girl
July 4, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Outsourcing & delegation
7
AI tools & automation
6
Batch tasks by type so context-switching costs are paid once
Hiring abroad at $10–15/hour unlocks delegation without a large budget
Forced productivity routines backfire when your constraints are non-standard
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Why chasing success won't make you happy: the neuroscience of balance
The Daily Stoic
July 3, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
8
Vision & mission
6
Surplus in one neurotransmitter bucket can't fill the others.
Achievement culture locks people into dopamine and serotonin at the expense of everything else.
True flourishing requires community, civic duty, and invisible labor accounted for.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to prioritize focus in your startup and personal life
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 2, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
6
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Grinding harder often means working longer on the wrong things.
Say no by default — only a handful of ideas deserve your focus.
Do the work closest to the customer; delegate everything with an SOP.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
The venture mindset: decision principles from Silicon Valley investors
EO
July 2, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Pitching investors
7
Fundraising & VC
5
Top VCs have higher failure rates — and still outperform everyone.
Invert the filter: ask 'why not?' before 'why yes?'
Cold emails work: 1 in 6 investors respond to a well-crafted pitch.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Inside a two-day mastermind for online course creators
Sunny Lenarduzzi
July 2, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Community building
5
Ego — not competition or economy — is your biggest business obstacle
Skipping daily gratitude leads to burnout, resentment, and downward spirals
A burning ritual helped 40 creators physically leave their mental baggage behind