Identity & self-belief

YouTube

How to convince someone to join your startup

Y Combinator August 9, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 9

Hiring & recruitment 5

• Recruit co-founders only after convincing yourself first
• Ambitious and incremental ideas are roughly equally hard to execute
• Teams without deep conviction quit at the first rough patch

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Identity & self-belief

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Key economic concepts founders can use from EconTalk

Y Combinator August 7, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 7

Long-term planning 6

Business models 5

• Emergent order: many business problems solve themselves without your intervention.
• Measuring only what's quantifiable makes you forget everything else exists.
• Founders' irrational ownership of their company makes rational handoffs nearly impossible.

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Goal setting

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Replacing retirement with intentional living and a legacy map

Bill Gallagher July 31, 2019

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Goal setting 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Vision & mission 7

• Why full-time leisure drains energy instead of enhancing life
• A six-priority legacy map turns end-of-life goals into daily motivation
• You have peak wealth, wisdom, and connections at 60 — don't quit

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Identity & self-belief

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Bill Gallagher on coaching founders to lead from purpose

Bill Gallagher July 24, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 8

Management 5

• Flat growth usually points to the founder, not the strategy
• Scaling requires changing who you are, not just the team
• Your personal 'why' is as important as your business 'why'

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Identity & self-belief

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How shifting your inner story unlocks business and personal growth

Bill Gallagher July 24, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 10

Delegation 6

Deep work & focus 5

• 80–90% of what blocks founders is mindset, not real obstacles
• Start with who you need to be — results follow identity, not effort
• Noticing your story is the first step to moving beyond it

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Resilience & grit

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Irrational commitment as a common trait in successful founders

Y Combinator July 16, 2019

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Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 6

• Successful founders share an almost irrational, all-in obsession.
• Musk bet his entire fortune on SpaceX — three rockets exploded first.
• Focus, frugality, obsession, love: Buchheit's four-word founder distillation.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

How to stop a mistake from defining your identity

StoryBrand With Donald Miller July 15, 2019

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

• Absorbing a mistake into your identity causes more damage than the mistake
• Viktor Frankl's logotherapy: write out every benefit the mistake gave you
• The only bad mistake is one you fail to learn from

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Identity & self-belief

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Why "nice" holds you back at work

StoryBrand With Donald Miller July 10, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 8

Communication 5

• Nice is fear-based self-erasure, not genuine kindness
• Authenticity — not niceness — makes people want to follow you
• You already know who you are; stop hiding it at work

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

How to choose a career: two questions that actually matter

StoryBrand With Donald Miller June 27, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 9

• Proving yourself through work is a guaranteed path to burnout
• People only pay for problems being solved — usefulness drives income
• Love it and it solves a problem: the only two criteria that count

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Reducing phone addiction, beating stuck points, and using systems instead of goals

How I Work June 26, 2019

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 8

Identity & self-belief 5

• Locking your phone away cuts usage by 30% without willpower
• Goals keep you in failure mode — daily systems build momentum instead
• Boredom is a creative resource; constant stimulus blocks your best ideas

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Identity & self-belief

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How self-deprecating talk shapes what others think of you

StoryBrand With Donald Miller June 24, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 9

Communication 5

• People take self-deprecating comments as fact, not humility
• Negative self-talk directly blocks promotions and career opportunities
• Honest, positive sound bites signal value and invite success

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

High performance without burnout: identity, habits, and sustainable output

Bill Gallagher June 12, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 10

Deep work & focus 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Hustle culture nearly killed him — a mid-flight heart attack changed everything
• Three timed alarms anchor a daily identity in work, health, and family
• One lead behaviour per life domain is enough to win the day

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Resilience & grit

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Victim mentality is the biggest killer of success

StoryBrand With Donald Miller May 8, 2019

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Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 6

• Playing the victim guarantees you'll never get the promotion or success.
• Victims attract rescuers — and outsource all growth along with the work.
• One daily reframe flips victim thinking into compounding success.

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Identity & self-belief

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One question that instantly resolves business confusion

StoryBrand With Donald Miller May 6, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 8

• Confusion is usually chosen, not real — you already know the answer.
• Two fill-in-the-blank sentences make the right action obvious.
• Avoidance of discomfort, not complexity, causes most bad decisions.

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Identity & self-belief

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What successful disruptors have in common: frameworks for manufacturing luck

Bill Gallagher March 6, 2019

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Identity & self-belief 8

Business models 6

Hiring & recruitment 5

• Disruptors manufacture luck through repeatable behaviours, not chance
• Your 'ghost' — a past rejection or rival — can become your edge
• Kindergartners beat MBAs at tower-building because they skip planning

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