Productivity & habits

YouTube

Health and performance: the common enemies blocking your energy

Brendon Burchard July 5, 2024

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Most stress is self-manufactured — you can decide to stop producing it.
• Seed oils in snacks silently destroy your gut, hormones, and energy.
• Superiority and stubbornness block health change more than ignorance does.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Ron Howard on evolving your creative vision through constant change

Masters of Scale July 4, 2024

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Resilience & grit 8

• Why constraints are leverage, not limits, for realising your vision
• How a failed streaming startup directly spawned Arrested Development
• Saying no to powerful partners who pull you away from your core vision

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

The venture mindset: decision principles from Silicon Valley investors

EO July 2, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Pitching investors 7

Fundraising & VC 5

• Top VCs have higher failure rates — and still outperform everyone.
• Invert the filter: ask 'why not?' before 'why yes?'
• Cold emails work: 1 in 6 investors respond to a well-crafted pitch.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Inside a two-day mastermind for online course creators

Sunny Lenarduzzi July 2, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

Community building 5

• Ego — not competition or economy — is your biggest business obstacle
• Skipping daily gratitude leads to burnout, resentment, and downward spirals
• A burning ritual helped 40 creators physically leave their mental baggage behind

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Turning pro: the habits and mindset of the true professional

The Daily Stoic June 30, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

• Resistance is a bully — it only has the power you give it.
• Fear never goes away; the professional acts through it anyway.
• Turning pro is a single act of will, not a gradual achievement.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

44 life and business lessons learned across 20 years of entrepreneurship

Dan Martell June 28, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Culture building 7

Vision & mission 6

• The results you want are hiding in the work you keep avoiding
• Manage energy across your day, not just tasks on a list
• Your life's purpose sits right next to your worst experience

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Stoic wisdom on inner peace and self-compassion

The Daily Stoic June 28, 2024

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Identity & self-belief 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Choosing chaos and conflict is always a choice, not fate
• Stoic self-criticism is constructive — never punishing or cruel
• Hold yourself to a high standard, not an impossible one

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic principles for control, resilience, and difficult conversations

The Daily Stoic June 27, 2024

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Resilience & grit 8

Deep work & focus 6

• Focusing only on what you control eliminates most suffering.
• Shipwrecks, exile, failure — hardship becomes fortune if you choose.
• Non-negotiable habits are the earliest warning sign of burnout.

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Beating Resistance: 9 Stoic Strategies for Creative Work

The Daily Stoic June 25, 2024

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Deep work & focus 9

Resilience & grit 7

Productivity & habits 6

• Resistance is the internal force blocking creative work; only discipline breaks it
• Lower expectations for drafts, show up daily, and trust that small steps compound
• Epictetus teaches: control effort and judgment, accept what you cannot control

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Fear of failure is the main reason people stop succeeding

GaryVee June 24, 2024

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Resilience & grit 8

• Fear of losing a client is exactly what makes you lose them
• Every minute spent on relevance anxiety is a minute not creating
• Traditional creative agencies charge millions for decks nobody tests

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Dominate your mind and turn obstacles into opportunities

The Daily Stoic June 24, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

Deep work & focus 5

• Your attention is contested territory — others profit from owning it.
• Marcus Aurelius: obstacles convert into raw material for new purpose.
• Amor fati means accepting what happened, then using it as fuel.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Attention, accountability, and patience: Gary Vaynerchuk on what actually drives success

GaryVee June 22, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Motivation 7

• True accountability — owning your outcomes — is the path to happiness.
• Impatience almost always traces back to insecurity, not ambition.
• TikTokification means content quality now beats follower count.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic progress over perfection: Q&A from a live talk

The Daily Stoic June 20, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Epictetus never found a perfect Stoic — progress is enough
• Tie success to your own actions, not others' verdicts
• Memento mori creates urgency without dread

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Rewiring stress: health and wellness strategies for high-performing leaders

Bill Gallagher June 19, 2024

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Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 8

Management 6

• Calm and high performance are not opposites — chronic stress kills productivity.
• Five universal subconscious beliefs silently drive burnout and leadership dysfunction.
• Rested employees consistently outperform exhausted ones working longer hours.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic resilience: training, injury, and recovery as philosophical practice

The Daily Stoic June 18, 2024

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Resilience & grit 9

Physical health & longevity 5

• Overtraining is a failure of Stoic temperance, not just bad luck
• Injuries can produce post-traumatic growth — often improving what they interrupt
• Recovery demands acceptance: submit to the process, focus on the next inch

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