Physical & cognitive performance

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Understanding and controlling aggression: the neuroscience and practical tools

Andrew Huberman May 14, 2026

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Physical & cognitive performance 9

Resilience & grit 6

• It's estrogen, not testosterone, that directly triggers aggression in the brain.
• Sunlight, sauna, and ashwagandha measurably reduce cortisol-driven aggression.
• Aggression is a neural circuit process — it can be interrupted before it completes.

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Physical & cognitive performance

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How athletic coaching transformed a young man with cerebral palsy

Tim Ferriss May 14, 2026

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Physical & cognitive performance 9

Resilience & grit 8

Case studies 6

• Progressive strength training rewired a CP patient's brain and body.
• Society comforts disabled people — coaching them unlocks what medicine cannot.
• From 3-pound bar to pressing bodyweight: a 5-year transformation blueprint.

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Resilience & grit

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Stress comes from stillness, not from having too much to do

Brendon Burchard May 11, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Motivation 8

Productivity & habits 6

• People with nothing going on have the most problems
• Most stress is a planning failure, not a capacity failure
• Mastery means taking on more stress, not less

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Identity & self-belief

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What Marcus Aurelius learned from his mother, Domitia Lucilla

The Daily Stoic May 10, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 7

Resilience & grit 6

• His mother's single remark sparked the entire project of the Meditations
• A billionaire who lived simply — the model Marcus spent his life trying to match
• History credits Stoic writers; the women who lived it are forgotten

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Resilience & grit

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Getting sober at 40: stoicism, fatherhood, and facing yourself

The Daily Stoic May 9, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Productivity & habits 6

• Sobriety isn't quitting — it's confronting why you drank in the first place.
• Addictive energy doesn't disappear; redirect it or it finds a new target.
• Ego dissolution, not willpower, is what stoicism gave his recovery.

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Resilience & grit

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Six Stoic rules for pursuing excellence in daily life

The Daily Stoic May 7, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 8

• Seeking discomfort deliberately is how real growth happens.
• Ego is the single biggest barrier to learning anything new.
• Every obstacle is training — turn setbacks into fuel for excellence.

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Identity & self-belief

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Stop giving mental space to people who don't deserve it

The Daily Stoic May 6, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 8

Resilience & grit 7

• Difficult people take your actions — don't let them also take your thoughts
• Don Draper's 'I don't think about you at all' is the Stoic ideal
• Taking others' behaviour personally adds self-inflicted suffering

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Resilience & grit

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How Stoicism teaches us to deal with difficult people

The Daily Stoic May 5, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Amor fati means loving yourself through hardship, not the hardship itself.
• Marcus Aurelius's 'obstacle is the way' is about people, not career setbacks.
• Difficult people are statistically inevitable — surprise at them wastes energy.

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Resilience & grit

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How to stop overwhelm by returning to intention

Brendon Burchard May 4, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Overwhelm is an identity problem, not a workload problem.
• One bad event multiplied into many is the whole mechanism.
• You don't need the storm to end — grab the wheel now.

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Resilience & grit

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Three lessons from The Psychology of Money for founders

Business Book Club May 4, 2026

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Resilience & grit 8

Cash flow management 7

Hiring & recruitment 6

• Staying in the game beats intensity — compounding needs time to pay off.
• Doubling down on what works outperforms chasing trends or shiny objects.
• True wealth is invisible: runway and freedom, not status symbols.

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Identity & self-belief

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Coaching for Leaders: reflections on self-awareness, feedback, and meaningful work

Coaching for Leaders May 4, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 9

Communication 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Not everyone has earned the right to give you feedback
• Sharing a raw 360 company-wide can backfire badly
• Leadership frustration is really a yearning for work that is real

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Productivity & habits

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Controlling anger and building better habits through Stoic practice

The Daily Stoic May 4, 2026

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 7

Identity & self-belief 5

• Knowing an action is wrong doesn't stop passion from winning
• Each angry episode reinforces the habit of anger — tracking breaks it
• You are not your values; you are your daily habits

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Resilience & grit

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Forty hidden lessons from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

The Daily Stoic May 3, 2026

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Resilience & grit 8

Origin stories 7

Management 5

• Marcus wrote during a plague — that context transforms every line.
• Meditations is a daily battle between lower self and higher self.
• True Stoic luck: always able to help others, never needing the favor returned.

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Resilience & grit

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Small crises sharpen focus; philosophy must become conduct

The Daily Stoic May 1, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Small crises build focus and clarity; ignoring them invites bigger ones.
• Quoting Stoic wisdom is worthless — only conduct proves understanding.
• Ideas take years to integrate; stoicism works on you as you work on it.

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Resilience & grit

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Dr. Edith Eger: choosing freedom inside the worst prison

The Daily Stoic April 30, 2026

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Resilience & grit 10

Identity & self-belief 8

Post-mortems 6

• The guards were imprisoned; she was free — inside her mind.
• Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself, not your abuser.
• Suffering built her strength; you cannot heal what you won't feel.

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