Resilience & grit

Podcast

How Rory McIlroy used Stoicism to win the Masters

The Daily Stoic April 20, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Deep work & focus 6

• Welcoming failure turned a decade of choking into a Masters win
• Locking his phone during majors cut out the noise that costs shots
• Marcus Aurelius on applause: clacking tongues, not worth chasing

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Goal setting

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Three strategies for growing an executive career in uncertain times

Dr. Grace Lee April 19, 2025

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Goal setting 9

Communication 7

Resilience & grit 6

• Generic career advice actively misleads executives navigating growth.
• Your milestones need a business case, not just personal ambition.
• Embracing challenges — not just wins — is what sustains momentum.

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Productivity & habits

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60 life lessons from a 45-year-old multimillionaire

Dan Martell April 18, 2025

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Productivity & habits 8

Goal setting 7

Resilience & grit 6

• Execution beats information — you already know what to do.
• Self-esteem is the reputation you keep with yourself, not others.
• Consistency over intensity: success is rented, due every day.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Why Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is still essential reading

The Daily Stoic April 18, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 8

• Meditations is a private journal, not philosophy written for an audience.
• Its repetition is a feature — Marcus wrote what he needed to hear.
• Obstacles, acceptance, and acting justly: the three ideas he never stopped wrestling with.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic resilience, the writing process, and staying sane in a noisy world

The Daily Stoic April 17, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 7

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Marcus Aurelius lost nine children yet never stopped choosing good character
• Writer's block is almost always a research gap, not a writing problem
• Misinformation spreads like a virus — building an information immune system is essential

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Thriving in uncertainty: resilience, meaning, and future thinking

How I Work April 16, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Communication 7

Long-term planning 5

• Asking teams to pivot triggers a hidden mattering crisis.
• Resilience is five trainable skills — not toughness or grit.
• Leaders build trust by planning for futures, not predicting them.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Journaling as a Stoic tool for impulse control

The Daily Stoic April 15, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 5

• Write down impulses before acting on them — the urge often dissolves.
• Stoics saw good impulse control as the foundation of good fortune.
• A real confrontation avoided after three days of journaling instead.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Confidence is built through action, not found before it

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life April 14, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

• Waiting for confidence is really waiting for certainty — which never arrives.
• Self-disruption (like moving to Portugal) beats waiting to be disrupted by life.
• Find your 'who' first — one person unlocks the next step faster than any plan.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Why entrepreneurs must learn to fail repeatedly

Cameron Herold April 14, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

• A-students struggle most with failure — they have zero practice.
• Tenacity means dog-like drive to get around any obstacle.
• 'No' is never final — just an obstacle you haven't pushed through yet.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Handling difficult people and becoming an expert in what matters

The Daily Stoic April 14, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

Mental health & wellbeing 5

• Limit exposure to difficult people — stop offering soft targets
• Most people master trivia while remaining strangers to themselves
• Seneca: audit your own life, not the grain market

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

How regret, quantity, and discipline drive better decisions

The Daily Stoic April 12, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 7

Productivity & habits 6

• Regret of inaction beats regret of action — across every culture.
• Quantity predicts creative breakthroughs more reliably than age or talent.
• Self-consciousness, not lack of skill, killed Harper Lee's second book.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Nine Stoic habits to quit for a stronger mind and body

The Daily Stoic April 11, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 8

Identity & self-belief 6

• Socrates said physical neglect disqualifies you from serving anyone
• A clear moral compass means you never have to deliberate
• Grudges, false urgency, and false friendships quietly drain your life

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Productivity strategies for depression, anxiety, and ADHD with Julie Fast

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life April 10, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 7

• Motivation never comes first when depressed — action does
• Depression inflates task time; a timer proves your brain wrong
• Sitting next to a working friend changes your brain chemistry

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Why stagnation follows success and how to break out of it

Brendon Burchard April 10, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Goal setting 7

• Unused potential doesn't stay idle — it becomes self-hatred.
• Boredom signals missing challenge, not the wrong path.
• Comfort is fine; removing the hunt entirely is the real danger.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Amor fati: how to embrace what you cannot change

The Daily Stoic April 10, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Acceptance is not defeat — it is the first step toward action.
• Give yourself now the gratitude you'll feel for hardship later.
• Edison rebuilt after losing everything by treating disaster as fuel.

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