Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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Stoic self-sufficiency: greatness and a new way to pray
The Daily Stoic
September 12, 2022
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Resilience & grit
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- The man brings distinction to the office, not the role to the man.
- Reframe prayer: ask to stop needing things, not to receive them.
- Self-sufficiency means training to make luck and circumstance irrelevant.
Identity & self-belief
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Epictetus: The Enchiridion — practical rules for living (Part 2)
The Daily Stoic
September 11, 2022
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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Goal setting
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- Only your judgment about an event can harm you — not the event.
- Being passed over costs nothing; you simply kept your dignity instead.
- Most people master philosophical logic while failing to apply rule one.
Resilience & grit
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Balancing optimism and pessimism as a startup founder
Y Combinator
September 9, 2022
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Identity & self-belief
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- One bad signal is not proof your startup is broken
- Magical thinking: believing normal cause and effect doesn't apply to you
- The best founders hold pessimism and optimism simultaneously
Resilience & grit
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Do not be deceived by fortune: the Stoic case for resilience
The Daily Stoic
September 8, 2022
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Identity & self-belief
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- Treating good fortune as permanent sets you up for collapse.
- Seneca survived exile because philosophy prepared him beforehand.
- Normal is chaos — sudden reversal is not the exception.
Identity & self-belief
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Jon Acuff and daughters adapt the Soundtracks mindset framework for teenagers
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
September 5, 2022
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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- Broken teenage thoughts run unchallenged for 20 years into adulthood.
- Three questions — true, helpful, kind — expose any broken soundtrack fast.
- Teenagers co-wrote the book; adults consistently misjudge what teens care about.
Resilience & grit
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Rest is not weakness: the Stoic case for leisure and hard training
The Daily Stoic
September 5, 2022
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Work-life balance
9
Identity & self-belief
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- Ancient Greeks defined leisure as freedom for intellectual growth, not idleness.
- Seneca and Epictetus prescribed deliberate hardship to build resilience before crises hit.
- Physical training rehearses overriding resistance in every area of life.
Resilience & grit
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Freedom as self-discipline: a Stoic framework for strength
The Daily Stoic
September 1, 2022
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Identity & self-belief
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- True freedom is the opportunity to discipline yourself, not escape constraints.
- Voluntary hardship — cold showers, hard runs — builds an unshakeable inner soul.
- A soul trained through adversity needs no repair when real difficulty arrives.
Resilience & grit
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Three lessons from Ironman racing that make you a better entrepreneur
Dan Martell
August 15, 2022
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Motivation
7
Business operating systems
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- All the real work happens before the big moment arrives.
- Your weakest business area will eventually cause a costly breakdown.
- A documented list of whys pulls you through the hardest stretches.
Resilience & grit
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How to transition from employment to entrepreneurship without betting everything
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 9, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Bootstrapping
7
Productivity & habits
6
- Frustration has to outgrow fear before the leap becomes inevitable.
- Start where you can add the most value, not where you're most passionate.
- Lower expenses before quitting — financial pressure kills creative decision-making.
Resilience & grit
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Dee Hock's aphorisms on life, learning, and leadership
Founders
August 4, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Management
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Why institutions crush the creativity and freedom humans need most.
- Read like an eagle hunting prey, not a dog obeying its master.
- Controlling others is force — controlling self is power.
Resilience & grit
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Seven Stoic stories to guide you through life
The Daily Stoic
August 2, 2022
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Identity & self-belief
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Productivity & habits
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- Stoics are practical first — toughness is a last resort.
- Zeno's shipwreck and Edison's fire: disasters that became turning points.
- One phone call gave JFK the presidency — courage is always small.
Resilience & grit
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Epictetus on the dichotomy of control: Enchiridion Part 1
The Daily Stoic
July 31, 2022
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Identity & self-belief
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Motivation
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- Only your judgements and responses are truly in your control.
- Directing desire or aversion at externals guarantees disappointment.
- True freedom requires wishing nothing that depends on others.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Hacking your founder psychology to do uncomfortable outreach
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 26, 2022
Identity & self-belief
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Resilience & grit
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- Ask on behalf of the work, not yourself — outreach gets easier
- Grief is everywhere in entrepreneurship: exits, firings, failure
- A full sales system — spreadsheet, prioritisation, daily outreach hour
Resilience & grit
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Lifestyle habits that help founders survive and recover from setbacks
Y Combinator
July 22, 2022
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Communication
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- Poor sleep, diet, and exercise compound into founder burnout over years.
- Salary should fund your life, not savings — equity is for upside.
- "Do nothing" is a legitimate play; the best founders use it constantly.
Identity & self-belief
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Stoic philosophy Q&A: overthinking, circles of concern, and starting out
The Daily Stoic
July 15, 2022
Identity & self-belief
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Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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- Thinking becomes a vice when it replaces decisive action.
- Early investment in Stoic habits compounds over an entire lifetime.
- Your individual decisions ripple outward through Hierocles' circles of concern.