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
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Management
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Work-life balance
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- 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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's rules for building an extraordinary life
Founders
August 23, 2020
Goal setting
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Resilience & grit
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Bootstrapping
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- 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
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Deep work & focus
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Resilience & grit
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- 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
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Deep work & focus
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Pivoting
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- 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.
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How the law of 100 stops you quitting too early
Noah Kagan
August 12, 2020
Resilience & grit
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Productivity & habits
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- 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
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Cash flow management
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Prospecting & outreach
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- 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
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Scaling up in uncertainty: stress, thinking time, and business pivots
Bill Gallagher
August 5, 2020
Resilience & grit
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Pivoting
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Remote teams
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- 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
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16 fastest-growing remote jobs in 2020 and how to land one
Noah Kagan
June 22, 2020
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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Delegation
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- 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
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Identity & self-belief
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- 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
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Motivation
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Identity & self-belief
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- 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
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Identity & self-belief
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Case studies
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- 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
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Resilience & grit
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- 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
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Communication
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- 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
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- 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
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Identity & self-belief
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- 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.