Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Two superpowers that determine whether you achieve your goals
Brendon Burchard
February 29, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
- Self-regulation is a trainable dial, not a fixed emotional state.
- Shyness is a trait; social influence is a skill anyone can build.
- Your goal list matters less than summoning the best of who you are.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Building conviction as a founder before selling to anyone
Y Combinator
February 29, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Prospecting & outreach
5
- 25 cold emails is not validation — it is giving up early.
- Conviction beats raw skill at coding, sales, or fundraising.
- If you won't use your own MVP, don't try to sell it.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How Broadway star Andy Karl performs at peak under pressure
How I Work
February 28, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Resilience & grit
8
Physical & cognitive performance
8
- Confidence is built through repetition and ownership, not innate talent.
- He performed opening night on Broadway with a fully torn ACL.
- Prevention beats recovery: why not getting sick is the real health strategy.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Dealing with toxic comparison, self-esteem, and modern parenting
GaryVee
February 21, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Comparison is just insecurity — nobody else's life concerns you.
- Eighth-place trophies caused more emotional damage than social media.
- Zero expectations of others is the foundation of a stable life.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic strategies for lasting happiness in daily life
The Daily Stoic
February 13, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
8
Goal setting
5
- Happiness comes from controlling your mind, not external events.
- Wanting less is more reliable than acquiring more.
- Adversity is practice — the untested person is the least happy.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to plan your day like Marcus Aurelius
The Daily Stoic
February 11, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
6
- Journaling was Marcus Aurelius's daily tool for self-accountability
- Negative visualization turns pessimism into deliberate daily readiness
- Memento mori — remembering death — creates focus on what truly matters
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Job security and freedom are not opposites — choosing freedom delivers both
Dr. Grace Lee
February 10, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
- Job security depends on others, making it the riskiest career path.
- Effort always works — either building results or building you first.
- Choosing freedom is the only way to eventually gain both freedom and security.
Building the architecture of an extraordinary life
Brendon Burchard
February 8, 2024
Goal setting
9
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
6
- Most goals fail because they're tasks, not desires
- Without routines tied to desires, high achievement still feels empty
- Trying to control everything breeds frustration — strategic surrender matters
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Anger, creative focus, and content strategy: Ryan Holiday Q&A
The Daily Stoic
February 8, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Deep work & focus
8
Processes & SOPs
6
- Anger punishes you, not the wrongdoer — strategy wins instead
- Saying no to everything else is how you say yes to one thing
- Repeat what works across formats; most viewers are seeing you first
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoicism, mastery, and identity: Dr. Michael Gervais on performance and self
The Daily Stoic
February 3, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Deep work & focus
6
- Performance-based identity — 'I am what I do' — destroys 87% of retired athletes.
- Confidence and calm are trainable skills, not innate traits.
- Mastery of self through craft matters more than mastery of craft alone.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Fear of others' opinions and what stoicism gets right about the self
The Daily Stoic
January 31, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
8
Communication
5
- Why letting strangers decide your worth is the real poison
- Elite performers use a personal standard stricter than scoreboard or crowd
- Stoicism's neglected fourth virtue — justice — demands compassion, not detachment
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How successful founders learn from rejection and turn no into fuel
Masters of Scale
January 30, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Niche selection
7
Pitching investors
7
- A chorus of no's often signals a genuinely contrarian, valuable idea.
- Quality of objections matters more than quantity — friction is signal.
- Knowing when to say no yourself is as critical as handling rejection.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Stoic daily progress: embracing change and getting a little better
The Daily Stoic
January 29, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
- Every life phase is a kind of death — and that's fine.
- Daily self-review is the core Stoic tool for real growth.
- Small improvements compound into life-changing progress over time.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Nervous system mastery: managing stress, burnout, and anxiety at work
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 28, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
- Calm your body first — your mind will follow, not vice versa
- Burnout costs startups a median $100k in hidden second-order damage
- Emotional debt accumulates silently until the nervous system crashes
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Cynicism and envy are killing your drive — how to rebuild optimism
Brendon Burchard
January 26, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Motivation
8
Identity & self-belief
7
- High distrust is the single biggest predictor of a low bank account
- Cynicism is the top reason people with real opportunity fail to use it
- Installing new thoughts beats analysing old ones — enthusiasm and courage replace envy