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.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Career advice from a GaryVee fireside chat with young professionals
GaryVee
March 27, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Productivity & habits
5
Burnout comes from insecurity, not hard work you actually love.
Self-worth tied to others' opinions is the root of most career anxiety.
Patience and complacency are different — go hard daily, relax about timeline.
Kemi Nekvapil on purposeful planning, values-led decisions, and coaching presence
How I Work
March 27, 2024
Goal setting
9
Management
6
Relationships & family
5
Stop seeking recognition from people who have never offered it.
Clear values make saying no a decision, not a dilemma.
A yearly solo retreat, not January resolutions, drives real goal clarity.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic resilience and the trap of seeking approval
The Daily Stoic
March 25, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Why expecting hardship protects you better than hoping to avoid it
Social media is engineered to exploit your need for validation
Doing work for approval guarantees it will break your heart
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How Emerson's self-reliance philosophy can transform your life
The Daily Stoic
March 24, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Deep work & focus
5
Envy is ignorance — imitation is the surest path to mediocrity
Self-knowledge is the prerequisite for doing anything original
Intuition outperforms deliberation; trust the whisper only you can hear
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Money, stuff, and the psychology of enough: Sam Parr on building without losing yourself
The Daily Stoic
March 23, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Founder interviews
7
Bootstrapping
5
The scarcity mindset that built your wealth can quietly cage you after.
Sam hit his exact $20M goal at 31 — and immediately wanted more.
Newsletter economics: 4M subscribers, 3 writers, nearly $20M revenue.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
HR Rhythms Chart: Document Your Work and Advance Your Career
HR Party of One
March 21, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Build a one-page chart mapping every recurring HR task.
Share it with your boss to align priorities and shed low-value work.
Use freed capacity for projects that grow skills and influence.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How character skills and hidden potential drive achievement
How I Built This with Guy Raz
March 21, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
8
Delegation
6
Character skills learned at five predict income decades later
Imposter syndrome is often a sign of hidden potential, not failure
Team narcissism kills collective performance — one knucklehead is the limit
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Using a power phrase to silence self-doubt under pressure
How I Work
March 20, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
6
A short personal phrase can block inner noise when pressure peaks
Trickett built hers at 18 to manage asthma at her first world championships
Power phrases evolve — update yours as your life context changes
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Finding the right productivity tools for your needs
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
March 18, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Automation & tools
6
AI tools & automation
5
Master frameworks first, then choose tools that fit—not the other way around.
Use the 90-day trial cycle after thorough research to commit sustainably to one tool.
AI will shift productivity from static apps to contextual assistants powered by health data.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Single-purpose notebooks, slow productivity Q&A, and the TikTok exodus
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 18, 2024
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
8
Business operating systems
6
One dedicated notebook per idea beats every digital alternative for creative insight
Pseudo-productivity survives because managerial capitalism shields firms from market signals
TikTok's addiction-without-social-graph model predicts a fragmented attention economy
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Lessons from 100 centuries: Durant's history distilled for founders
Founders
March 18, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Long-term planning
8
Cash flow management
6
Human nature never changes — only the tools and means do.
Differentiated ability produces unequal value; become extreme at your craft.
Survival is the only metric history — and business — actually scores.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Financial independence, fear of judgment, and winning the long game in your 20s
GaryVee
March 18, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Branding
5
Taking money from parents past 22 silently destroys both sides
Fear of others' opinions — not lack of talent — stops most people
Treating everything as your fault is the fastest path to optimism
Resilience & grit
Podcast
The portable retreat: finding peace within yourself
The Daily Stoic
March 18, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Work-life balance
6
The peace you seek on vacation is already inside you.
Comfort after hardship can become a velvet rut.
Fake vacations rearrange work — they don't prevent burnout.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Managing burnout and running at high performance as a founder
TK Kader
March 17, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Burnout hits mental, physical, and emotional dimensions simultaneously — name it to defeat it.
Stamina beats hustle: founders who last manage energy, not just effort.
A weekly 15-minute gratitude review prevents burnout before it starts.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Scarcity Programming: Why Effort Alone Keeps You Stuck
Dr. Grace Lee
March 16, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
6
Unconscious scarcity programming blocks progress regardless of effort.
Unlearning old beliefs is the prerequisite to learning new ones.
Three steps: recognise programming, challenging environment, mental gatekeeping.