Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Resilience & grit
Podcast
What elite athletes and coaches know about stoicism and performance
The Daily Stoic
July 13, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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Management
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- Confidence is loose, ego is rigid — tightness kills performance under pressure.
- Olympic gold felt empty; the ordinary moments are what actually fulfills.
- Forcing athletes never produces sustained excellence — presence beats pressure.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Crisis as turning point: choosing a victorious response
Bill Gallagher
July 4, 2022
Resilience & grit
8
Communication
5
- Crisis literally means turning point — your response decides the outcome.
- The refiner's river transforms good people into trusted, courageous leaders.
- Stop looking sideways; focus locks in after crossing the river.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
True freedom is mastery of yourself, not your circumstances
The Daily Stoic
July 4, 2022
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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- Epictetus the slave was freer than Seneca the billionaire
- Wealth, status, and followers are just slower chains
- Stoics held that humans are born inclined to virtue — protect it
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Five practical hacks for breaking out of your comfort zone
Dr. Grace Lee
July 2, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Goal setting
6
- Comfort zone dependence silently caps your capability and resourcefulness
- Burning your fallback plan creates the urgency goals alone never generate
- Rebalancing assumptions about comfort dissolves fear of leaving it
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to overcome limiting beliefs and get what you want in life
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
June 27, 2022
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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Productivity & habits
5
- Your origin story silently drives self-sabotage — until you name it
- Clarity comes before confidence, not after — start before you're ready
- Boundaries aren't about others; they're about enforcing your own limits
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stop meditating on death and start letting it change how you live
The Daily Stoic
June 27, 2022
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Identity & self-belief
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- Knowing you'll die changes nothing — acting on it changes everything.
- Obstacles can't block your intentions, only your actions.
- Every setback is raw material for practising courage, patience, or wisdom.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Drawing on Courage: Navigating fear and everyday bravery
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
June 20, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Courage is mastery of fear, not its absence—act despite the risk.
- Four-stop journey reveals where you're stuck: fear, values, action, change.
- Clarify your purpose to surf the wave of fear instead of drowning in it.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Socrates: lessons on clear thinking, courage, and the examined life
Founders
June 17, 2022
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
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- Most received opinions collapse under a single probing question.
- Denying the body and feeding the soul was Socrates' entire life strategy.
- He chose death over exile — Athens without freedom was no life at all.
Motivation beats knowledge: how to show up when it counts
Dan Martell
June 6, 2022
Motivation
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Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Success is an obsession problem, not a knowledge gap.
- Habits carry you when motivation disappears — build them.
- Committed founders act as if the stakes are life or death.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Eight Stoic don'ts for living a better, more focused life
The Daily Stoic
June 5, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
6
- Why checking your phone first thing hands your day to others
- The Stoic case for never seeking revenge — on anyone
- Your internal scorecard beats any external opinion or approval
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to deal with setbacks as a startup founder
Y Combinator
May 25, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Fundraising & VC
5
Case studies
5
- Setbacks are not anomalies — they are the game itself.
- Failed Series A rounds are common; no one announces them.
- Your reaction to a punch is entirely within your control.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic philosophy on enduring life and building daily practice
The Daily Stoic
May 19, 2022
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Productivity & habits
7
Identity & self-belief
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- Why Marcus Aurelius stayed — and why you should too.
- Preparation has an expiration date; entropy erodes untrained beliefs.
- Know your true north before crisis hits, not during.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Deep work, meaning gaps, and managing attention in modern knowledge work
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
May 15, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Resilience & grit
5
- Producing valuable work and working efficiently are separate — optimising the wrong one destroys value.
- Millennial burnout is best explained by a meaning gap, not capitalism or Instagram hustle.
- Activity selection — what enters your system at all — is the ignored lever that drives everything else.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Eight lessons from Epictetus on living a Stoic life
The Daily Stoic
May 15, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Most suffering comes from focusing on what you cannot control.
- Gut instinct is only trustworthy after real training and study.
- Every situation has two handles — choose the one that makes you stronger.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
AJ Jacobs on Puzzles, Curiosity, and the Meaning of Life
The Daily Stoic
May 14, 2022
Resilience & grit
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Motivation
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Mental health & wellbeing
5
- The puzzle mindset builds epistemic humility and probabilistic thinking.
- A mechanical puzzle needing decillion moves reframes mortality and legacy.
- Life asks us the question — our actions are the answer.