Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Resilience & grit
Podcast
Chuck Yeager: lessons from a life of obsession, courage, and craft
Founders
January 11, 2021
Resilience & grit
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Deep work & focus
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Identity & self-belief
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- Flying more than anyone else compounds into mastery — reps are everything.
- Stubborn refusal to quit put Yeager in position to break the sound barrier.
- Fear is a tool: Yeager used it to learn everything, not to stop.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Productivity habits for distracting days, deep work, and metric tracking
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 7, 2021
Deep work & focus
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Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
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- Anxiety blocks deep work — cut it on distressing days without guilt.
- Process drives 90% of productivity gains; tool choice drives 10%.
- Start with one keystone habit per life bucket, then expand slowly.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How Theodore Geisel spent decades becoming Dr. Seuss
Founders
January 4, 2021
Resilience & grit
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Deep work & focus
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- Dr. Seuss chose children's books because his ad contract allowed it
- Cat in the Hat came from a 225-word challenge, not creative vision
- Nearly 30 years of rejection and day jobs preceded full-time writing
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Five stoic moments from history that embody the four virtues
The Daily Stoic
December 20, 2020
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
8
Case studies
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- Steve Scott stopped Tiger Woods from losing by cheating himself of a win
- Epictetus had his leg broken by his master and responded without a sound
- Degradation only lands if you consent to it — Douglass refused
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport on overload, PhD guilt, retirement, and deep procrastination
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 3, 2020
Productivity & habits
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Deep work & focus
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Resilience & grit
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- Treat deep work and shallow maintenance as two separate part-time jobs.
- PhD students burn out by manufacturing busyness to mask a light task load.
- Deep procrastination requires fixing both overload and extrinsic motivation simultaneously.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Theodore Roosevelt: how a sickly, grief-stricken young man forged an extraordinary life
Founders
November 30, 2020
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Repeated catastrophic loss drove Roosevelt to ferocious action, not retreat.
- His father's deathbed command — 'make your body' — shaped everything he became.
- Acting fearless in the face of real danger is how courage actually gets built.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Seven stoic lessons for navigating crisis and uncertainty
The Daily Stoic
November 29, 2020
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Identity & self-belief
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- Why Epictetus's life as a slave perfected the dichotomy of control
- Cato's rigid principles accidentally accelerated Rome's collapse
- Memento mori isn't morbid — it sharpens focus on what's in front of you
Seven books that shaped one entrepreneur's life and business
Noah Kagan
November 21, 2020
Goal setting
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Delegation
7
Resilience & grit
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- Letting employees choose their own goals took AppSumo from $4M to $30M.
- Energy, not time, is the resource that determines your best work.
- One Hail Mary in ten pays off — that's enough to justify the other nine.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Habit tune-up: notebooks, quarterly planning, focus, and burnout
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 29, 2020
Productivity & habits
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Deep work & focus
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Resilience & grit
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- Shallow work expands to fill time — constraining it deliberately frees depth
- Burnout needs two fixes: less difficulty and more intrinsic motivation
- Productive meditation trains focus better than mindfulness for work distractions
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Finding meaning through projects, perspective, and community
Noah Kagan
October 18, 2020
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
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- Frankl's three-part formula: project, optimistic suffering, community
- The 'if it weren't for me' exercise reveals your irreplaceable impact
- Building a company is building a community — pressure forces growth
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Ten years of therapy: lessons, frameworks, and when to go
Noah Kagan
October 7, 2020
Identity & self-belief
9
Work-life balance
6
Resilience & grit
5
- Therapy works best when you bring specific problems, not open topics.
- Good therapists reflect your behaviour back — they never tell you what to do.
- Fulfilment isn't at the next level; it's already available right now.
Practical strategies for motivation, collaboration, and productivity in lockdown
How I Work
October 7, 2020
Motivation
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Resilience & grit
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Communication
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- Autonomy, mastery, or connection: diagnosing which is missing fixes most slumps.
- Phone beats video for hard conversations and genuine emotional reading.
- Six five-minute movement breaks outperform one long break for sustained energy.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Nine business and life lessons from mountain biking
Noah Kagan
October 5, 2020
Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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- Why practising deliberately beats just playing the game
- First time hard, second time easy — fear shrinks the moment you act
- Smile at the suffering: reframe hard work as something to lean into
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Ten mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make and how to avoid them
Noah Kagan
September 23, 2020
Resilience & grit
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Customer discovery
6
- Find paying customers before building anything — always.
- Your day job is your investor; don't quit until $1k/month.
- Courses and trending niches are procrastination in disguise.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport's planning system, Slack's hidden cost, and building a deep life in your 20s
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
September 14, 2020
Deep work & focus
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Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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- Slack fixes email anxiety but makes context-switching dramatically worse
- Satisfaction comes from daily craft and discipline, not reaching milestones
- Planning works at daily, weekly, and quarterly scales — monthly adds nothing