Mindset: Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
Podcast
Dee Hock's aphorisms on life, learning, and leadership
Founders
August 4, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Management
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Why institutions crush the creativity and freedom humans need most.
- Read like an eagle hunting prey, not a dog obeying its master.
- Controlling others is force — controlling self is power.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Seven Stoic stories to guide you through life
The Daily Stoic
August 2, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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Productivity & habits
5
- Stoics are practical first — toughness is a last resort.
- Zeno's shipwreck and Edison's fire: disasters that became turning points.
- One phone call gave JFK the presidency — courage is always small.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Epictetus on the dichotomy of control: Enchiridion Part 1
The Daily Stoic
July 31, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Motivation
5
- Only your judgements and responses are truly in your control.
- Directing desire or aversion at externals guarantees disappointment.
- True freedom requires wishing nothing that depends on others.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Hacking your founder psychology to do uncomfortable outreach
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 26, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Resilience & grit
5
- Ask on behalf of the work, not yourself — outreach gets easier
- Grief is everywhere in entrepreneurship: exits, firings, failure
- A full sales system — spreadsheet, prioritisation, daily outreach hour
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic philosophy Q&A: overthinking, circles of concern, and starting out
The Daily Stoic
July 15, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
7
Resilience & grit
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- Thinking becomes a vice when it replaces decisive action.
- Early investment in Stoic habits compounds over an entire lifetime.
- Your individual decisions ripple outward through Hierocles' circles of concern.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
What elite athletes and coaches know about stoicism and performance
The Daily Stoic
July 13, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Management
6
- Confidence is loose, ego is rigid — tightness kills performance under pressure.
- Olympic gold felt empty; the ordinary moments are what actually fulfills.
- Forcing athletes never produces sustained excellence — presence beats pressure.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Developing visionary thinking as a leader: three core pillars
Dr. Grace Lee
July 9, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Vision & mission
7
Deep work & focus
6
- Visionary thinking is a trainable skill, not a personality trait.
- Busyness is the biggest blocker to imagination — 'what if?' unlocks it.
- Intuition differs from gut instinct and is already innate in everyone.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
True freedom is mastery of yourself, not your circumstances
The Daily Stoic
July 4, 2022
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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- Epictetus the slave was freer than Seneca the billionaire
- Wealth, status, and followers are just slower chains
- Stoics held that humans are born inclined to virtue — protect it
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to overcome limiting beliefs and get what you want in life
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
June 27, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Productivity & habits
5
- Your origin story silently drives self-sabotage — until you name it
- Clarity comes before confidence, not after — start before you're ready
- Boundaries aren't about others; they're about enforcing your own limits
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stop meditating on death and start letting it change how you live
The Daily Stoic
June 27, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Knowing you'll die changes nothing — acting on it changes everything.
- Obstacles can't block your intentions, only your actions.
- Every setback is raw material for practising courage, patience, or wisdom.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Drawing on Courage: Navigating fear and everyday bravery
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
June 20, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Courage is mastery of fear, not its absence—act despite the risk.
- Four-stop journey reveals where you're stuck: fear, values, action, change.
- Clarify your purpose to surf the wave of fear instead of drowning in it.
Work-life balance
Podcast
Above all else, invest in friendship
Masters of Scale
June 18, 2022
Work-life balance
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Identity & self-belief
6
- Real friends reveal your blind spots and expand your worldview
- The right friend at the right moment redirects your entire path
- Helping friends deepens your sense of purpose and belonging
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Four practical ways to build self-awareness as a leader
Dr. Grace Lee
June 18, 2022
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
5
- Why you must ask unasked questions to know yourself
- How to choose problems that fuel resilience and motivation
- Your real values drive decisions — not the ones you wish you had
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Socrates: lessons on clear thinking, courage, and the examined life
Founders
June 17, 2022
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
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- Most received opinions collapse under a single probing question.
- Denying the body and feeding the soul was Socrates' entire life strategy.
- He chose death over exile — Athens without freedom was no life at all.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Feedback councils, the deep life, and how to direct human action
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
June 13, 2022
Identity & self-belief
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Productivity & habits
7
Deep work & focus
5
- Social media hijacks your brain's feedback system with biased, bad-faith signals.
- Radical alignment — not small tweaks — separates a deep life from a good one.
- Curate a diverse trusted council; ignore Twitter, random emails, and angry DMs.