Identity & self-belief

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Unsubscribing from validation, vanity metrics, and external expectations

Sunny Lenarduzzi June 7, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 8

Goal setting 6

• Chasing subscriber counts led directly to burnout and lost purpose
• A 'boring, predictable' business outperforms hustle and shiny-object chasing
• Narrowing your audience focus creates more impact, not less reach

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Motivation

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Motivation beats knowledge: how to show up when it counts

Dan Martell June 6, 2022

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Motivation 9

Resilience & grit 6

Identity & self-belief 5

• Success is an obsession problem, not a knowledge gap.
• Habits carry you when motivation disappears — build them.
• Committed founders act as if the stakes are life or death.

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Resilience & grit

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Eight Stoic don'ts for living a better, more focused life

The Daily Stoic June 5, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Deep work & focus 6

• Why checking your phone first thing hands your day to others
• The Stoic case for never seeking revenge — on anyone
• Your internal scorecard beats any external opinion or approval

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Resilience & grit

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Stoic philosophy on enduring life and building daily practice

The Daily Stoic May 19, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 7

Identity & self-belief 6

• Why Marcus Aurelius stayed — and why you should too.
• Preparation has an expiration date; entropy erodes untrained beliefs.
• Know your true north before crisis hits, not during.

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Resilience & grit

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Eight lessons from Epictetus on living a Stoic life

The Daily Stoic May 15, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Most suffering comes from focusing on what you cannot control.
• Gut instinct is only trustworthy after real training and study.
• Every situation has two handles — choose the one that makes you stronger.

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Identity & self-belief

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Building executive confidence through your highest values

Dr. Grace Lee May 14, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Motivation 8

Communication 6

• You are already outgoing — just not where you think.
• Aligning work with your true values builds confidence automatically.
• Emotional volatility, not personality, causes mind-blanks in meetings.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

A leader must be a reader: treat yourself as the project

The Daily Stoic May 5, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Productivity & habits 7

• Reading is the only way to borrow experience before you need it.
• Kennedy, Churchill, Marcus Aurelius — all shaped by what they read.
• Your mind is your primary asset; investing in it is the job.

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Resilience & grit

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Five ways to train your brain to be more open-minded

Dr. Grace Lee April 30, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Goal setting 6

• Open-mindedness is a trainable state of mind, not a personality trait.
• Reframing challenges as refinement tools removes the root cause of closed thinking.
• Unresolved self-rejection gets projected outward, triggering defensiveness toward others.

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Identity & self-belief

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Building lasting self-worth instead of chasing self-esteem

Dr. Grace Lee April 20, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Mental health & wellbeing 5

• Self-esteem oscillates constantly — it cannot be sustained long-term.
• Chasing elevated self-esteem causes mask-wearing and inauthenticity.
• Pursue self-worth instead: stable acceptance of your whole self.

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Identity & self-belief

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How to think about and leave a big tech job as a founder

Y Combinator April 20, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 6

Long-term planning 5

• Most FAANG roles are ad servers, not hard technical problems
• Vesting refreshers are engineered loss-aversion — the trap is deliberate
• Decide your exit timeline before you join, not while holding a bonus

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Resilience & grit

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Ten timeless meditations from Stoic philosophy

The Daily Stoic April 17, 2022

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Nothing outside you can break your freedom of choice
• Invincibility means caring only about what is up to you
• Injustice includes standing by while wrong happens

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Resilience & grit

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No pressure, no diamonds: growing through entrepreneurial struggle

Dan Martell April 11, 2022

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Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 7

• The struggle is the mechanism of growth, not a barrier to it
• Each company should leave you with a transferable high-income skill
• Playing nice with others is a learnable skill — and a business-critical one

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Resilience & grit

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Seven life-changing Stoic practices for daily use

The Daily Stoic April 3, 2022

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Resilience & grit 10

Identity & self-belief 8

• Virtue alone is the highest good — not fame, wealth, or success
• Love of fate turns every obstacle into fuel, never a block
• Meditating on death is the Stoic path to daily gratitude

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Identity & self-belief

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Five stoic insights drawn from remarkable women

The Daily Stoic March 27, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 9

• Why being called 'passionate' is a stoic red flag
• Florence Nightingale waited 16 years to answer her calling
• Portia Cato proved trustworthiness by enduring self-inflicted pain alone

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Productivity & habits

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Five steps to get out of a rut and organize your life

Dr. Grace Lee March 23, 2022

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Productivity & habits 8

Goal setting 7

Identity & self-belief 5

• Ruts are caused by limiting beliefs, not circumstances
• Entropy fills unplanned time with low-priority distractions
• Align every daily action to your defined vision of order

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