Resilience & grit

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25 essential rules for life from the Stoics

The Daily Stoic May 1, 2022

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• Every situation has two handles — always grab the empowering one.
• 25 Stoic principles condensed from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca.
• Control your response, cut the inessential, never stop learning.

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Five ways to train your brain to be more open-minded

Dr. Grace Lee April 30, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 8

Goal setting 6

• Open-mindedness is a trainable state of mind, not a personality trait.
• Reframing challenges as refinement tools removes the root cause of closed thinking.
• Unresolved self-rejection gets projected outward, triggering defensiveness toward others.

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Identity & self-belief

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How to think about and leave a big tech job as a founder

Y Combinator April 20, 2022

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Long-term planning 5

• Most FAANG roles are ad servers, not hard technical problems
• Vesting refreshers are engineered loss-aversion — the trap is deliberate
• Decide your exit timeline before you join, not while holding a bonus

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Ten timeless meditations from Stoic philosophy

The Daily Stoic April 17, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 8

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Nothing outside you can break your freedom of choice
• Invincibility means caring only about what is up to you
• Injustice includes standing by while wrong happens

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No pressure, no diamonds: growing through entrepreneurial struggle

Dan Martell April 11, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 7

• The struggle is the mechanism of growth, not a barrier to it
• Each company should leave you with a transferable high-income skill
• Playing nice with others is a learnable skill — and a business-critical one

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Eight Stoic daily habits that build a better life

The Daily Stoic April 10, 2022

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Resilience & grit 7

Relationships & family 5

• Excellence is an operating system built from repeatable daily habits.
• Memento mori neutralizes both arrogance in success and suffering in failure.
• Endurance sports teach you to distinguish real limits from the mind's lies.

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Seven life-changing Stoic practices for daily use

The Daily Stoic April 3, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 8

• Virtue alone is the highest good — not fame, wealth, or success
• Love of fate turns every obstacle into fuel, never a block
• Meditating on death is the Stoic path to daily gratitude

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Productivity & habits

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Seven journaling strategies from Marcus Aurelius and the Stoics

The Daily Stoic March 20, 2022

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 7

Identity & self-belief 5

• Marcus Aurelius journaled as spiritual combat, not self-expression
• Evening review alone produces a 25% measurable performance increase
• Repetition is the point — drilling ideas into muscle memory, not variety

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Financial habits and mindset for navigating crisis and building wealth

Silicon Valley Girl March 17, 2022

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Cash flow management 8

Personal finance 7

• Six months of runway is the minimum safety buffer — always.
• Panic buying and selling in crises almost always backfires.
• Consistency without experimentation leads to stagnation, not growth.

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Nine Stoic rules for a better life from Marcus Aurelius

The Daily Stoic March 13, 2022

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Productivity & habits 6

• Anxiety is internal — removing stress won't remove it.
• Obstacles from others are live tests of the virtues you claim to hold.
• Amor fati, memento mori, and acts for the common good distilled.

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Resilience & grit

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Nims Purja: how extreme self-belief broke mountaineering's hardest record

Founders March 11, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 7

Management 5

• Started climbing at 29, no experience — shattered an 8-year world record.
• Quit Special Forces, re-mortgaged his house, began with 15% of required funding.
• The mind quits before the body — every summit was won psychologically first.

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Handling fear of criticism and rejection at work

Dr. Grace Lee March 9, 2022

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Identity & self-belief 5

• Labeling feedback as criticism makes you its victim instantly.
• Sensitivity to criticism reveals something you haven't owned about yourself.
• Genuine curiosity replaces defensiveness — and keeps you professional.

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Eight Stoic practices to make courage a daily habit

The Daily Stoic March 6, 2022

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• Cowardice is always a choice — and always dangerous
• JFK won an election with a few seconds of moral courage
• Courage is the foundational Stoic virtue; all others depend on it

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Identity & self-belief

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Overthinking is the founder's biggest mistake: the midwit meme explained

Y Combinator March 2, 2022

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Resilience & grit 6

Pivoting 5

• The idiot approach and the genius approach are usually identical.
• Fundraising, MVPs, co-founders: the midwit overcomplicates every decision.
• Most startup ideas that worked started embarrassingly simple.

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Resilience & grit

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Expect disruption twice a decade and prepare to profit from it

KeyPersonOfInfluence February 18, 2022

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• Personal and economic shocks hit every 10 years — plan for both
• Expecting disruption removes panic and unlocks better decisions
• Crises are the best time to return to your business's first principles

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