Mindset: Resilience & grit

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Resilience & grit

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How leaders can build lasting happiness without waiting for success

Bill Gallagher September 9, 2020


Resilience & grit 9
Management 7
Work-life balance 6
  • Deferring happiness to a future milestone is the most common entrepreneur trap.
  • Meditation, gratitude journaling, and body check-ins cost nothing and work.
  • The time-anger gap: you choose how long negative emotion runs your day.

Goal setting

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's rules for building an extraordinary life

Founders August 23, 2020


Goal setting 9
Resilience & grit 7
Bootstrapping 6
  • Schwarzenegger was a millionaire before 30 — from bricklaying and mail order, not movies
  • Skipping the ladder: always seek the hardest competition, never the safe next step
  • Harsh upbringing became fuel — he credits his father's cruelty for driving him to America

Productivity & habits

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Productivity habits: systems, skill-building, boredom, and deep work

Deep Questions with Cal Newport August 20, 2020


Productivity & habits 9
Deep work & focus 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • No productivity system removes the hard work — stop switching.
  • Interview career role models for their story, not their advice.
  • If a grad could do 80% of your job in a day, alarm bells.

Resilience & grit

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Scaling Up Insights: Stress, Think Time, Pivoting, and Trends with Three Coaches

Bill Gallagher August 12, 2020


Resilience & grit 9
Deep work & focus 8
Pivoting 7
  • Believing stress is harmful — not stress itself — raises mortality risk 43%.
  • Strategy Fridays and day-parting protect irreplaceable deep-work time.
  • Separate what you deliver from how: the delivery mechanism is the pivot point.

Resilience & grit

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How the law of 100 stops you quitting too early

Noah Kagan August 12, 2020


Resilience & grit 9
Productivity & habits 7
  • Commit to 100 reps before judging results — ever.
  • Quitting early is a data problem, not a motivation problem.
  • Nine concrete tactics to stay consistent until 100.

Resilience & grit

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Eight steps to rebuild income and momentum from zero

Noah Kagan August 6, 2020


Resilience & grit 7
Cash flow management 6
Prospecting & outreach 5
  • Stabilise cash first — bill stress kills the space to think clearly
  • Bring proof of work to job applications; most candidates bring nothing
  • Start building an audience now — it takes years to compound

Resilience & grit

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Scaling up in uncertainty: stress, thinking time, and business pivots

Bill Gallagher August 5, 2020


Resilience & grit 8
Pivoting 7
Remote teams 6
  • Believing stress is harmful makes it physically harmful — mindset is the lever
  • Think time must be scheduled like client work or it disappears
  • Separate what you deliver from how you deliver it to find your pivot

Resilience & grit

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16 fastest-growing remote jobs in 2020 and how to land one

Noah Kagan June 22, 2020


Resilience & grit 9
Identity & self-belief 7
Delegation 5
  • Do the work for free first — then ask to get paid.
  • Offline businesses moving online created 16 concrete job opportunities.
  • Avoid freelance marketplaces; direct outreach gets you paid far more.

Resilience & grit

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Navigate crises by building networks and seizing emerging opportunities

Masters of Scale June 3, 2020


Resilience & grit 8
Identity & self-belief 6
  • In chaos, established patterns break—exploit the openings for emerging opportunities.
  • Build networks early; their compounding value over decades determines career trajectory.
  • Seek roles at industry hubs where smart people and momentum concentrate.

Resilience & grit

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The mindset of an extreme winner: Larry Ellison's relentless competition

Founders May 20, 2020


Resilience & grit 9
Motivation 8
Identity & self-belief 6
  • Extreme winners create games within games to sustain competitive intensity over decades
  • Will and desire to win trump talent every time—how Ellison rebuilt Oracle and won America's Cup
  • Sports provide unmistakable feedback; business's endless quarters lead nowhere without competition

Resilience & grit

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Charles Kettering: The professional amateur inventor

Founders May 15, 2020


Resilience & grit 9
Identity & self-belief 7
Case studies 6
  • Progress comes from unusual people with imagination and willingness to work independently and courageously.
  • Treat yourself as a professional amateur: embrace learning through trial and error and repeated failure.
  • The unknown unknowns far outweigh what we know; approach all work with humble curiosity.

Productivity & habits

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Energy management, the three selves, and the work-rest ratio

Noah Kagan May 14, 2020


Productivity & habits 9
Resilience & grit 6
  • Recovery isn't the opposite of performance — it's the mechanism
  • Any strength overused becomes a liability; find its positive opposite
  • Under pressure, a survival self hijacks decisions — quieting the body restores the adult

Resilience & grit

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Managing stress and emotional blocks for entrepreneurs in crisis

Bill Gallagher May 13, 2020


Resilience & grit 9
Communication 6
  • Your crisis reaction is likely an old childhood trauma, not the current event.
  • Avoiding emotional discomfort costs businesses months and millions in delayed decisions.
  • A three-step process to name, story-test, and root-trace any emotional block.

Productivity & habits

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Using military after action reviews to build personal discipline

Noah Kagan May 1, 2020


Productivity & habits 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • Two categories — sustain or improve — replace every self-help framework
  • A broken upbringing gives you more material to work with, not less
  • Downtime is preparation time: be ready to sprint when the door opens

Resilience & grit

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What a difficult ayahuasca experience taught about courage and self-discovery

Noah Kagan April 28, 2020


Resilience & grit 8
Identity & self-belief 7
  • Running shirtless into the dark wasn't the failure — coming back was the point.
  • No one is coming to save you; the answers are already inside.
  • Any deliberate challenge works; ayahuasca is one tool, not the only one.

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