Resilience & grit

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Beliefs as tools: how to align motivation and stop limiting yourself

Coaching for Leaders March 9, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Management 6

• Motivation is a triangle: belief is the base, not an afterthought.
• Beliefs are tools to choose strategically, not fixed truths to obey.
• Mental contrasting — planning for obstacles — beats pure visualisation every time.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Using a moral exemplar to hold yourself to a higher standard

The Daily Stoic March 9, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 10

Resilience & grit 6

• Externals rarely produce the happiness people imagine they will.
• Keeping a moral hero in mind raises behavior even when no one watches.
• Living well enough to become someone else's Cato is the goal.

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Resilience & grit

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Stoic strategies for mastering emotions without suppressing them

The Daily Stoic March 7, 2026

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Resilience & grit 10

Identity & self-belief 7

• Anger signals you're focused on something outside your control.
• Anxiety is self-inflicted suffering added on top of events.
• Perseverance is the will that never yields across years of setbacks.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

How Jordan Klepper stays calm talking to people he disagrees with

The Daily Stoic March 4, 2026

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Resilience & grit 8

Communication 7

• Silence is the technique — let people contradict themselves by over-explaining
• Most rally-goers aren't true believers; they're performing for the camera
• Constant news consumption replaces reflection without improving understanding

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Resilience & grit

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Rewiring the mind: unlearning negative patterns with Dr. Alok Kanojia

Andrew Huberman March 2, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Mental health & wellbeing 7

• Willpower fails because it fights the tendency — psychotherapy changes the tendency itself
• The ego (roles, comparisons) is the source of ambition that produces success but not happiness
• AI sycophancy and social media algorithms are measurably eroding distress tolerance and reality-testing

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Memento mori: why thinking about death makes you live better

The Daily Stoic March 1, 2026

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Resilience & grit 10

Identity & self-belief 8

• Death isn't coming — it's happening right now, every minute.
• Procrastination is arrogance: it assumes a tomorrow you're not owed.
• Legacy and wealth are illusions; good character is the only real monument.

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Identity & self-belief

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Stoic accountability: lead when called, hold yourself to the standard

The Daily Stoic February 27, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

Management 5

• Why dreading power made Marcus Aurelius a great emperor
• Frank Robinson fined himself $200 when no one else would
• Integrity is a compass, not a constraint — rely on it when rules blur

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Resilience & grit

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Stoic indifference: how to stop being ruled by emotions

The Daily Stoic February 26, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

• Unchecked emotions burn you out — Stoics called this the passions
• Wealth, health, pain are 'indifferent' — neither virtue nor vice
• Resilience means having preferences without being owned by them

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Resilience & grit

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Stoic responses to blame, injustice, and adversity

The Daily Stoic February 24, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Blaming others is how you stay stuck in the past.
• Stoics act against injustice — passivity is its own moral failure.
• Every hard experience is a rep; difficulty builds capacity for worse ahead.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Tim McGraw on finding his father and choosing hope over resentment

Tim Ferriss February 24, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

Relationships & family 5

• Discovering your dad is a baseball star you already admired
• Tug offered $300/year for silence — Tim demanded truth instead
• Absent fathers can give hope without ever being present

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Physical & cognitive performance

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Quieting the ruminative mind and escaping the self-help trap

Tim Ferriss February 24, 2026

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Physical & cognitive performance 8

Relationships & family 6

Resilience & grit 5

• One day of TMS plus an old antibiotic eliminated severe OCD rumination
• Self-help becomes a trap when you polish the self instead of living
• You can't say no until you have big enough yeses worth defending

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Productivity & habits

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Eight daily habits to build momentum and escape reactive living

Dan Martell February 23, 2026

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Productivity & habits 10

Deep work & focus 7

Resilience & grit 6

• Win tomorrow by planning and shutting down the night before.
• Easy choices create a hard life — choosing hard builds identity.
• One North Star metric, measured daily, drives all goal progress.

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Resilience & grit

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Winning the day: stoic discipline and the indifference of circumstances

The Daily Stoic February 23, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 6

• A 6 a.m. meeting reveals how winners actually attack the day.
• Anger at circumstances is wasted energy — they simply don't care.
• A lost Euripides play survives only because Marcus wrote it down.

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Resilience & grit

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How a chance encounter with Stephen Covey ended Steve Young's depression

Tim Ferriss February 23, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

• You dig your own hole — nobody else pushes you in.
• Fear of finding out how good you are keeps you stuck.
• One reframe on a plane turned depression into NFL MVP.

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Productivity & habits

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Stoic rules for living: what to do, stop, and start

The Daily Stoic February 22, 2026

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 7

Deep work & focus 6

• Ambition means tying your happiness to what others decide
• Eight concrete steps to stop procrastinating for good
• Criticism only harms you if you sink to their level

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