Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Productivity & habits
Podcast
Stop repeating what doesn't work and take a walk
The Daily Stoic
June 17, 2024
Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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- Trying the same failed habit harder is its own form of insanity.
- The Stoics say: when a path is blocked, go around it.
- Walking doesn't pause thinking — it sharpens it.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to become the person you idealize
Brendon Burchard
May 30, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Without a clear character ideal, you become someone by accident.
- Self-discipline means showing up with no enthusiasm, energy, or hype.
- You've already met the person who can unlock your next opportunity — follow up.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Stillness, mastery, and resilience: Ryan Holiday Q&A with GitHub
The Daily Stoic
May 30, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Resilience & grit
8
Founder interviews
7
- High performers do fewer things — stillness beats busyness every time.
- Build a life around good days, not five-year goals or exit plans.
- Physical training is rehearsal for life's hardest mental challenges.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
The overlooked personality traits that drive entrepreneurial success
Cameron Herold
May 27, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
5
- ADD and bipolar traits are entrepreneurial superpowers, not disorders
- Tim Ferriss turned $25,000 into $108M by backing Uber alone
- Working smart beats working hard — R&D means rip off and duplicate
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Making your own good fortune: the Stoic case against passive luck
The Daily Stoic
May 24, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Long-term planning
5
- True luck is character, intention, and action — not chance
- When justice hits a wall, use the setback to practice other virtues
- Preparation doesn't guarantee luck; it makes luck mostly unnecessary
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Self-awareness and confidence: what they don't teach you in business school
GaryVee
May 23, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Productivity & habits
5
- Eighth-place trophies trained a generation to fear losing.
- Insecurity can reach the top — but it's miserable and unsustainable.
- Your 20s are the lowest-risk window for high-stakes experimentation.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to ask for what you want and stop holding yourself back
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
May 19, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
8
Resilience & grit
6
- Not asking for what you want is living out of integrity with yourself.
- Every complaint implies a dream — use complaints to find what you want.
- Anything short of a whole-body yes is a no worth probing further.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Duty, integrity, and doing your job even when it's hard
The Daily Stoic
May 19, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Floyd Mann stopped a civil rights riot alone, gun drawn.
- "I was just doing my job" was once heroic, not an excuse.
- A fiduciary standard — not just honesty — is the bar for everyone.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Marcus Aurelius: power, character, and the limits of Stoic virtue
The Daily Stoic
May 18, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Management
7
Identity & self-belief
6
- The best rulers are those drafted into power, not those who seek it.
- Marcus's tolerance of flawed people in key roles caused catastrophic failures.
- Stoic philosophy framed political power as a poison chalice — Marcus lived that tension.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Personality traits you can deliberately change to improve your life
Brendon Burchard
May 16, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Personality shifts at graduation, marriage, divorce — with or without intent.
- Conscientiousness is the top personality trait linked to longevity and wealth.
- Emotional stability is trainable — mindfulness measurably changes life outcomes.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoicism, the founders, and the original meaning of happiness
The Daily Stoic
May 15, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
8
Vision & mission
6
- The founders built America on Stoic self-mastery, not passive acceptance.
- Happiness once meant virtue and character — not pleasure or passion.
- Hamilton and Jefferson both predicted and feared January 6th-style coups.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Michael Jordan's operating system: practice, mindset, and the relentless standard
Founders
May 12, 2024
Resilience & grit
10
Hiring & recruitment
8
Productivity & habits
7
- Work ethic eliminates fear — preparation removes anxiety at the moment of performance.
- Jordan's competitive standard never bent: no one would out-prepare him, ever.
- History's greatest founders on hiring: A players hire A players, B players sink companies.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Entrepreneurship, grit, and attention in the social media age
GaryVee
May 10, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Social media
8
Identity & self-belief
7
- Self-awareness — not motivation — determines if entrepreneurship is right for you
- Over-protective parenting is actively destroying the grit entrepreneurs need
- Organic social media is now the highest-leverage marketing tool available
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Why stress overwhelms you and how to break the cycle
Brendon Burchard
May 9, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
6
- Stress is a thought loop, not an external event attacking you
- Remove time pressure and most stress immediately dissolves
- Worry only breaks when followed by one concrete next action
Resilience & grit
YouTube
FLSA duties test: exempt vs non-exempt employee classification
HR Party of One
May 7, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Motivation
5
- Misclassification can trigger double back pay if a court rules it intentional.
- Exempt salary threshold raised to $1,059/week — six categories must each meet separate criteria.
- Shipcom paid what was owed but still lost in court, paying double.