Mindset: Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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How Noah Kagan dealt with depression after being fired from Facebook
Noah Kagan
September 22, 2021
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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Founder interviews
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- A decade of depression while watching Facebook teammates become billionaires
- Small controlled wins — gym, blogging, helping one person — rebuild self-worth fast
- Use the chip on your shoulder as fuel, then find a better motivator
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Six elements of the deep life: a framework for meaningful living
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
September 20, 2021
Deep work & focus
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Productivity & habits
7
Identity & self-belief
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- All six elements must be present, but one or two pursued to an extreme.
- The phone fills an existential void — fix your life vision, not your habits.
- Major life decisions require months of self-knowledge before redesigning circumstances.
Identity & self-belief
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How to move from employee to entrepreneur without quitting blind
Noah Kagan
September 13, 2021
Identity & self-belief
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Business models
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- Your day job funds and de-risks your first business attempts.
- Don't quit until side income covers your minimum monthly expenses.
- Inertia keeps you stuck — start planting seeds now, not later.
Identity & self-belief
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Flip the script: use Be-Do-Have to break through stuck areas
Bill Gallagher
September 7, 2021
- You have the order backwards: Be first, then Do, then Have.
- Your target identity is available right now — no conditions required.
- One identity shift led to 45 triathlons over 11 years.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Building lasting habits through small, identity-shifting actions
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
September 3, 2021
Productivity & habits
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Identity & self-belief
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- Scale any habit to two minutes — master showing up first
- Habits reshape your identity, not just your outcomes
- 1% daily improvements compound into life-changing results
Identity & self-belief
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When to break up with your business — and how to redesign the relationship
Bill Gallagher
September 1, 2021
Identity & self-belief
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Management
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- Your business should serve you — not consume you.
- Hitting your goal can kill motivation if you never recalibrate.
- Identity tied to your company is a trap even money can't unlock.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Separating correlation from causation in business and personal success
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 31, 2021
Identity & self-belief
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Long-term planning
6
Motivation
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- Success comes from hard work, skill, and luck—not mimicking others' habits or quirks.
- Focus on one primary business to avoid context-switching traps across multiple ventures.
- Small wins and momentum—not perfectionism—break through motivation and shipping paralysis.
What discipline is and how to build it through a compelling vision
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
August 30, 2021
Goal setting
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Deep work & focus
7
Identity & self-belief
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- Discipline is acting toward what you value, not what feels good now.
- A vision compelling enough to feel in your bones is the only reliable foundation.
- The deep life is not intense intellectual work — it's intentional living in any form.
Identity & self-belief
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Rewiring your mindset to lead yourself and scale your business
Bill Gallagher
August 25, 2021
Identity & self-belief
9
Management
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- Your beliefs, not your hours, are capping your business growth
- You can only lead your team as far as you've led yourself
- Shifting one element of the uplevel formula changes your results
Productivity & habits
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Building self-discipline through small personal commitments
Noah Kagan
August 25, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
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- Discipline is keeping promises to yourself — each one builds self-confidence.
- Delayed rewards (no TV until Friday) make the payoff feel genuinely earned.
- Discipline that stops being useful should be adjusted, not preserved out of pride.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Practical answers on organisation, chaos days, weekly planning, and values
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
August 19, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
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- Naturally disorganised people still need systems — just simpler ones.
- Chaos days need a specific method: front-load, star the must-dos, reactive the rest.
- Values are a living draft, refined through input, reflection, and real-world collision.
Identity & self-belief
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Reframing "not good enough" as a lifelong growth mindset
Bill Gallagher
August 10, 2021
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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- Chasing "good enough" keeps you stuck in a losing loop
- Watching an expert fail was the catalyst for real freedom
- Surrendering to never being done unlocks lifelong mastery
Identity & self-belief
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Why external success without internal alignment leads to dissatisfaction
Noah Kagan
August 4, 2021
Identity & self-belief
9
Motivation
7
Work-life balance
5
- External fixes — therapy, travel, health hacks — won't solve internal dissatisfaction
- Fulfillment beats 'success': define your own measure across life, work, relationships
- Entrepreneurial drive requires dissatisfaction, but self-compassion must balance it
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Seven core Stoic practices you can apply every day
The Daily Stoic
August 1, 2021
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
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- Virtue is the only good — everything else is circumstance.
- Obstacles are not blocks; they reveal the actual path forward.
- Meditating on death is the fastest route to daily gratitude.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Re-Reading: Shop Class as Soulcraft with Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 26, 2021
Identity & self-belief
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Deep work & focus
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- Why bullshit knowledge jobs feel empty: lack autonomy, mastery, and belonging.
- Crawford's motorcycle metaphor teaches that meaning comes from tangible results, not passion.
- Apply craftsmanship principles to knowledge work through clear standards and trusted feedback loops.