Resilience & grit

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Wiring your brain for performance under extreme pressure

Coaching for Leaders September 30, 2024

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Management 6

• Emergencies aren't just worse bad days — they follow different rules
• Calm under pressure is a trainable skill, not a fixed trait
• Performance depends as much on preparation and recovery as the moment itself

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Maintaining justice without self-sacrifice: a Stoic framework

The Daily Stoic September 19, 2024

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Identity & self-belief 5

• Taylor Swift turned a stolen catalogue into a billion-dollar comeback.
• Virtue is a midpoint — giving everything away is itself a vice.
• The only measure of effort: did you actually do your best today?

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Work-life balance

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Three daily habits to prevent and recover from burnout

Cameron Herold September 14, 2024

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Work-life balance 10

Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Burnout is self-induced — you allow it, not your boss.
• Shrink your time container: no nights, no weekends, ever.
• Three daily priorities beat a full to-do list every time.

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Resilience & grit

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GaryVee launches children's book on balance and resilience

GaryVee September 13, 2024

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Goal setting 6

• Why teaching kids to lose is the most important parenting job
• Too much eagerness becomes sloppiness; too much patience becomes complacency
• Never say no to something you haven't genuinely tried

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Identity & self-belief

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How your worldview shapes your emotions, choices, and agency

Brendon Burchard September 12, 2024

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

• Growing up in a hostile environment hardwires a stress-first nervous system.
• Abundance is built through intention and practice, not inherited or stumbled upon.
• Free will is real — high agency means choosing growth over impulse.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

How to find a job you love using product thinking and peer support

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth September 12, 2024

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Closing techniques 7

Niche selection 6

• Narrow your job target like a product ICP — broad kills your search
• Sharing a job mission with OKRs can make hiring managers hire you on the spot
• Asking for help is a confidence signal, not a weakness — 85% of senior leaders prove it

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Resilience & grit

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Going slow to go fast: search and rescue lessons for founders

Bill Gallagher September 11, 2024

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Deep work & focus 6

Culture building 5

• Rushing to a rescue victim 30 seconds faster can create two casualties.
• Leaning into fear — not away from it — is where survival happens.
• A failed startup sale to AT&T became a 15-year growth anchor.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoicism is not dark: Marcus Aurelius on duty, joy, and action

The Daily Stoic September 10, 2024

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Motivation 8

• Stoicism is a joyful, empowering philosophy — not cold or depressing.
• Happiness ensues from serving others, not from pursuing pleasure.
• Stop booing the situation; do the thing you actually control.

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Resilience & grit

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Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley on continuous improvement and learning from mistakes

Coaching for Leaders September 9, 2024

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Resilience & grit 8

Goal setting 7

Management 5

• Stop chasing the goal — become the person who naturally achieves it
• Elite performers obsessively revisit basics; simplicity always hides more depth
• Your biggest lead is your most dangerous moment — complacency kills momentum

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Always try to do it the hard way

The Daily Stoic September 8, 2024

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Productivity & habits 6

• Growth comes from deliberately choosing the harder path over comfort.
• Small daily choices—walking farther, hard conversations—compound into capability.
• Deep preparation and modeling challenge teach resilience to yourself and others.

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Resilience & grit

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Mindset habits that sustain long-term entrepreneurial success

Silicon Valley Girl September 6, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Motivation 8

Delegation 5

• Fall in love with the problem, not the shiny outcome.
• Networking time should grow as your seniority grows.
• One meeting that felt pointless changed the startup's trajectory.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Recognising atypical burnout and resetting stress with Dr Aditi Nerurkar

How I Work September 4, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Physical & cognitive performance 7

• Always-on and unable to disconnect? That's modern burnout.
• Your breath is the fastest switch from stress to calm.
• Only two new habits at a time — your brain can't handle more.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

How a burnt-out junior copywriter reached six figures in a year

Matthew Volkwyn September 2, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Copywriting 7

Management 6

• Burnout is the hidden reason good copywriters lose clients at six figures
• Optimising your LinkedIn profile with stats generates inbound leads indefinitely
• Investing in yourself returns 300–500% — more than any financial asset

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Rest and hard training: two Stoic duties for a sustainable life

The Daily Stoic September 2, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 6

• Overwork is selfish — it robs the world of your later, better output.
• Stoics trained in deliberately harsh conditions to build resilience before crisis hit.
• Pushing through discomfort in workouts builds the muscle that overrides all resistance.

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Resilience & grit

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Breaking free from negative emotions through body and mindset

Brendon Burchard August 29, 2024

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Productivity & habits 6

• Your last 72 hours of sleep and food drive your mood more than childhood.
• Asking 'what is my role?' instantly reframes any emotional reaction.
• Journaling works best as future-casting, not just replaying the past.

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