Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Resilience & grit
Podcast
Using Stoicism to manage negativity, anger, and lazy habits
The Daily Stoic
March 28, 2020
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
6
Productivity & habits
5
- Temperance, not willpower: self-discipline as freedom from your own urges
- Anger is universal — Stoics used audits, pauses, and outlets to domesticate it
- Tommy John's 1-in-100 shot: why the Dichotomy of Control demands full effort
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Being an informed citizen without consuming cable news
The Daily Stoic
February 8, 2020
Resilience & grit
8
Mental health & wellbeing
7
- Heavy news consumers know the most trivia, not the big picture
- Stockdale's Vietnam POW story proves Stoicism works in modern extremes
- Stoics intervene when others are bullied — not when targeted themselves
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Five stoic habits, staying calm, and finding great books
The Daily Stoic
December 28, 2019
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
8
Deep work & focus
5
- Wake early, walk daily, journal — Marcus Aurelius' actual habits
- Calm is contagious: your environment sets your emotional baseline
- Follow the chain method to find books that shaped great thinkers
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Leading yourself through crisis: lessons from a year without food
Bill Gallagher
November 27, 2019
Resilience & grit
9
Crisis leadership
7
- A rare disease left Jeff unable to eat for nearly a year
- Doctors said stop working — he became an interim CEO instead
- Your company's ceiling is set by your own leadership lid
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to ride the entrepreneurial roller coaster without crashing
Cameron Herold
November 14, 2019
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- Entrepreneurs share clinical bipolar traits — and can't escape the pressure.
- Crisis of meaning is predictable; most founders don't recognise it in themselves.
- You can't think or work your way out alone — support is the only exit.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Geoff Ralston's parting advice for startup founders
Y Combinator
September 30, 2019
Resilience & grit
9
Founder interviews
6
- Every startup's path is unique — comparison is a distraction.
- When things go wrong, default to action: write code, talk to users.
- Benevolence isn't idealism — being good makes your company more successful.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How magician Simon Coronel designs tricks, seeks brutal feedback, and performs under pressure
How I Work
August 28, 2019
Resilience & grit
8
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Deep work & focus
6
- Why paying audiences dollar coins for criticism improves any performance
- Smarter people are easier to fool — the brain's lazy evaluation explained
- Never feel ready? The quitting-your-job epiphany that actually works
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Irrational commitment as a common trait in successful founders
Y Combinator
July 16, 2019
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
- Successful founders share an almost irrational, all-in obsession.
- Musk bet his entire fortune on SpaceX — three rockets exploded first.
- Focus, frugality, obsession, love: Buchheit's four-word founder distillation.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to stop a mistake from defining your identity
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
July 15, 2019
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
- Absorbing a mistake into your identity causes more damage than the mistake
- Viktor Frankl's logotherapy: write out every benefit the mistake gave you
- The only bad mistake is one you fail to learn from
10 Rules for Big Career Changes
Masters of Scale
June 21, 2019
Goal setting
9
Resilience & grit
7
Work-life balance
6
- Follow passion, but validate it against real market opportunities and competition.
- Think in tours of duty, not lifelong careers—sideways moves and pivots are the norm.
- Build grit by learning from failure and adjusting strategy, not by repeating what doesn't work.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to handle being fired without damaging your career
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
June 20, 2019
Resilience & grit
8
Communication
6
- Lashing out forces your employer to justify firing you more strongly
- A positive soundbite repeated consistently protects your reputation long-term
- Keeping quiet after one exit secured an executive a multi-million dollar CEO role
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to stop emotions derailing your career and decisions
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
June 20, 2019
Resilience & grit
8
Communication
6
- No clear goal is the real reason emotions hijack you.
- You can lose every battle and still win the war.
- Write down your war — use it as a daily filter.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
High performance without burnout: identity, habits, and sustainable output
Bill Gallagher
June 12, 2019
Identity & self-belief
10
Deep work & focus
8
Resilience & grit
6
- Hustle culture nearly killed him — a mid-flight heart attack changed everything
- Three timed alarms anchor a daily identity in work, health, and family
- One lead behaviour per life domain is enough to win the day
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Reconnecting with nature and awe to survive the stress of leadership
Bill Gallagher
June 5, 2019
Resilience & grit
9
Deep work & focus
5
Communication
5
- Joy is a moral imperative — even amid pain and loss.
- Awe in nature reverses PTSD, isolation, and burnout faster than willpower.
- Skiing Iraq and Afghanistan turns former war zones into human bridges.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Three steps to turn failure into professional growth
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
May 20, 2019
Resilience & grit
10
Management
6
- Failure builds strength only when you honestly acknowledge it.
- Three-step framework: acknowledge, extract a lesson, then adjust behaviour.
- Writing your mistake and fix to a boss earns respect, not firing.