Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Resilience & grit
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How growth mindset and emotional intelligence help leaders recover from crisis
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
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Management
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Communication
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- Affect precedes cognition — unaddressed emotions derail even smart leaders
- Retreating into work when life is hard creates bigger problems later
- Peer learning communities built EI as a shared organisational language
Resilience & grit
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How to make progress when starting something new
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
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Identity & self-belief
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Delegation
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- Fire cheap bullets first — cannonballs miss without range-finding.
- Your self-story may be quietly sabotaging your next beginning.
- Conscious practice beats habit when you need to keep learning.
Resilience & grit
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How to stop people coming back with the same problems
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
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Delegation
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- Giving answers triggers dopamine — leaders are literally addicted to helping
- Two go-to questions break the habit without a full coaching overhaul
- Telling only activates rational brain; asking creates memory and generalisation
Resilience & grit
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How to respond when triggered at work using an alternate script
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
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Communication
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Identity & self-belief
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- You don't have to believe an alternate script for it to work
- Venting — private or public — almost always backfires on the venter
- Over-investment in authenticity keeps you stuck in your first reaction
Resilience & grit
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Building resilience by learning to sit with failure and discomfort
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
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Identity & self-belief
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- Successful people accumulate the most failures, not the most successes.
- Three questions dissolve catastrophising: deathbed, control, and story.
- Resilience is a learnable practice — discomfort never fully disappears.
Identity & self-belief
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How to use the S-curve model to support your own and others' growth
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
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Management
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- The slow, invisible phase of learning is where real growth happens.
- Shame about past experiences hides skills that could accelerate your next curve.
- Saying 'I am a programmer' instead of 'I'm becoming one' changes outcomes.
Deep work & focus
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Haruki Murakami on obsession, routine, and the long game
Founders
July 21, 2024
Deep work & focus
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Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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- Authenticity isn't a feeling — it shows up in longevity over decades.
- Stopping before empty each day keeps the flywheel spinning tomorrow.
- Burning out on an ultra marathon cost him years of running enthusiasm.
Resilience & grit
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Patrick Dempsey on Stoicism, Acting, and Race Car Driving
The Daily Stoic
July 20, 2024
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Founder interviews
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Relationships & family
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- Racing and acting both demand presence — preparation is what makes it possible.
- Stoicism means channelling emotion, not suppressing it.
- Ritual dependency creates fragility; real confidence survives any conditions.
Identity & self-belief
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Embrace your weirdness and forgive others: two Stoic lessons
The Daily Stoic
July 19, 2024
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Resilience & grit
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- Suppressing your authentic self makes you replaceable by definition.
- Rainn Wilson's misery turned around the moment he embraced his weirdness.
- Marcus Aurelius and Jesus agree: wrongdoers act from ignorance, not malice.
Resilience & grit
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Building mental resilience to turn personal adversity into business strength
Bill Gallagher
July 17, 2024
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Identity & self-belief
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Motivation
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- Trying to restore the status quo after crisis guarantees a second crisis.
- Be neutral about current problems; get emotionally invested in future goals.
- Simultaneous cancer diagnoses — son and self — navigated through radical openness.
Identity & self-belief
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Rewriting the stories that hold you back: the Mind Your Mindset framework
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 15, 2024
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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- Your brain runs a narrator that mistakes its stories for facts
- Three-step process: identify, interrogate, then rewrite the story
- Neuroplasticity means no negative thought pattern is permanent
Deep work & focus
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Eight small habits for deeper work and life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 15, 2024
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Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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- Reciprocal meeting blocks prevent your calendar from drowning in meetings
- Work quotas give you a defensible reason to say no
- Practicing hard things builds discipline as a trainable threshold
Resilience & grit
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Practicing gentleness over anger: a Stoic guide for an imperfect world
The Daily Stoic
July 15, 2024
- Anger makes situations worse — gentleness is the stronger response.
- Marcus Aurelius chose pragmatic engagement over cynicism or retreat.
- Redirect rage: delegate, depersonalise, and skip the last word.
Productivity & habits
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Nine Stoic strategies for overcoming procrastination
The Daily Stoic
July 14, 2024
Productivity & habits
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Deep work & focus
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Resilience & grit
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- Procrastination is an emotion problem, not time management; perfectionism and fear paralyze action.
- Nine concrete tactics: focus on the next small step, build routines, use counterforce.
- Remember you will die today; mortality creates urgency and clarifies what truly matters.
Productivity & habits
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How to build a journaling practice rooted in Stoic philosophy
The Daily Stoic
July 9, 2024
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Resilience & grit
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Mental health & wellbeing
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- Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations for himself — not for readers
- Paper outlasts devices: da Vinci's notebooks beat your old iPhone
- Start with one sentence a day — momentum beats ambition every time