Mindset: Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
Podcast
How failure, philosophy, and creative restraint shaped Philipp Meyer's fiction
The Daily Stoic
April 8, 2023
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Identity & self-belief
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- Two unpublished novels and 15 years of failure preceded Meyer's first book.
- Success and the 'scene' are more dangerous to creative work than obscurity.
- AI averages human output — original artistic judgment is what it cannot replace.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Practical optimism is a learnable skill, not a fixed trait
GaryVee
April 7, 2023
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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- Pessimism and optimism are both self-fulfilling — you find what you seek.
- "Keeping it real" is usually just a label for chronic negativity.
- One person went 80% more optimistic in five years through exposure alone.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to stop over-protecting your kids and let them learn
GaryVee
April 7, 2023
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Letting your kid fail — even go into debt — builds real resilience.
- Over-coddling signals you don't believe they can do it.
- Fear of judgment keeps new entrepreneurs isolated and stuck.
Breaking out of a life rut by defining success on your own terms
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
April 4, 2023
Goal setting
9
Identity & self-belief
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- Feeling trapped despite ticking every success box is the real rut
- Most people are living someone else's definition of success on autopilot
- The RUT framework: Recognize, Understand, Take action and measure
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Pursue what you love, live within what it pays
GaryVee
April 4, 2023
Identity & self-belief
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Pricing strategy
6
Founder interviews
5
- Most people already know their passion — they just talk themselves out of it.
- Downsizing your lifestyle is what makes a career change financially possible.
- Trying and failing eliminates 'what if' — that's its own form of winning.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Critical thinking and human voice are the real edge in an AI world
GaryVee
April 4, 2023
Identity & self-belief
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Vision & mission
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
- AI commoditises execution — the idea and the prompt quality still win
- Schools banning AI optimise for memorisation, not critical thinking
- When heart and head align, hesitation is just insecurity
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How your environment sets your limits — and how to raise them
Dan Martell
April 3, 2023
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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Communication
5
- Willpower failures are almost always environment failures.
- Audit your circle: cut drains, create space for builders.
- Deliberately move into rooms where you feel like the small player.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
What we really seek when we seek the simple life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
April 3, 2023
Identity & self-belief
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Productivity & habits
7
Business operating systems
6
- The simple life is about escaping overload, not avoiding work
- Deconstruct inspiring stories to find actionable changes you can make now
- Slowness — no single day being critical — is a fundamental human need
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Bipolar, ADHD, and Tourette's as entrepreneurial superpowers
Cameron Herold
March 27, 2023
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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Communication
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- The same traits that get kids medicated make founders magnetic.
- Five predictable roller-coaster stages — each demands a different move.
- Crash and burn is optional, but only if you ask for help early.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Two plagues: protecting your character in a crisis
The Daily Stoic
March 24, 2023
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
8
Crisis leadership
6
- Every crisis spreads two plagues: one kills bodies, one kills character.
- Personal experience — pandemic, parenthood — unlocks philosophy's deeper meaning.
- Small acts within your control can ripple far beyond your own sphere.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Gratitude, positivity, and why perfectionism is an excuse
GaryVee
March 23, 2023
Identity & self-belief
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Motivation
8
Resilience & grit
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- Gratitude is the only framework that makes every problem smaller
- Reinvesting all profit — not ego — built VaynerMedia
- Calling yourself a perfectionist is avoiding accountability, not achieving it
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Curiosity as the core skill for navigating the AI and Web3 era
GaryVee
March 23, 2023
Identity & self-belief
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Vision & mission
6
- Opinions on AI without 50 hours of real use are worthless
- The next 20 years will dwarf the last 15 in technological change
- Approaching the unfamiliar with 'maybe' unlocks more opportunity than expertise
Ambition fuelled by gratitude, not insecurity
GaryVee
March 22, 2023
Motivation
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Identity & self-belief
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- Insecurity-driven ambition burns out — money exposes, not changes you
- Starting with $500? The buy-sell arbitrage gap still pays
- Reinvesting all profit built VaynerMedia — lifestyle spending kills scale
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Three mental frameworks for founders: resilience, taste, and success planning
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 21, 2023
Resilience & grit
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Goal setting
8
Identity & self-belief
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- A symbolic 'Armageddon beer' instantly resets founder panic to rational thinking.
- The taste-skill gap is normal — volume of work is the only way to close it.
- Asking 'what if I succeed?' protects against arrival fallacy before you get there.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
The four tendencies: understanding how you respond to expectations
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
March 20, 2023
Identity & self-belief
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Productivity & habits
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Management
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- Four personality tendencies based on how you respond to outer and inner expectations
- Why obligers struggle with self-directed goals but excel under accountability
- Pairing frameworks with person-specific strategies multiplies habit-change effectiveness