Productivity & habits

Podcast

Six Stoic rules to make 2026 your best year

The Daily Stoic January 2, 2026

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 7

Resilience & grit 6

• Most suffering happens in the mind long before reality arrives.
• Wanting more is the most avoidable form of poverty — reduce desires instead.
• Deliberate discomfort builds courage; comfort breeds fear of losing it.

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Prospecting & outreach

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Four-step cold call framework that actually books meetings

The Science of Scaling January 2, 2026

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Prospecting & outreach 10

Objection handling 8

• Your opener fails because it skips asking permission to continue
• 30 seconds of LinkedIn research earns more attention than any pitch
• Close on 15 minutes of conversation, never on the solution itself

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

How behavioral science makes personal and organizational change stick

Masters of Scale January 1, 2026

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Productivity & habits 9

Management 6

Processes & SOPs 5

• Fresh starts boost motivation briefly — sustained change needs more tools.
• Pair dreaded tasks with guilty pleasures to rewire how they feel.
• Batch hiring in groups, not one-offs, reliably increases team diversity.

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Physical & cognitive performance

YouTube

Micronutrients and hormetic stress for brain and longevity

Andrew Huberman January 1, 2026

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Physical & cognitive performance 8

Physical health & longevity 6

• 70% of Americans are vitamin D deficient — it controls 5% of your genome
• Omega-3 index of 4% vs 8% equals a five-year difference in life expectancy
• Sauna 4-7x weekly cuts cardiovascular death risk by 50%

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Pricing psychology

YouTube

How copywriters build leverage, lifestyle alignment, and client-free income

Matthew Volkwyn January 1, 2026

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Pricing psychology 8

Pricing strategy 7

Work-life balance 6

• Contract clauses can earn you more without changing your stated price
• Scaling to $10M often delivers the same lifestyle as $50K/month now
• Work that feels aligned needs no discipline — misalignment is the real burnout signal

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AI tools & automation

YouTube

Build AI Specialists with Projects and Gems Across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

Dylan Davis January 1, 2026

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AI tools & automation 10

Automation & tools 6

• Persistent AI specialists beat one-off chats by eliminating repeated context-setting.
• WWH framework — What, Why, How — structures prompts; optimizer then improves them automatically.
• A/B test specialists across all three platforms to find per-task model winners.

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Pitching investors

YouTube

Seven-step Shark Tank elevator pitch formula that converts

StoryBrand With Donald Miller January 1, 2026

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Pitching investors 9

Motivation 6

• Clarity triggers the brain's fluency effect, making your offer feel credible.
• Lead with the problem for four steps before introducing your product.
• One decisive call-to-action removes cognitive dissonance and boosts conversions.

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Influencer & partnerships

Podcast

How founders can use AI and influencers to grow niche consumer brands

How I Built This with Guy Raz January 1, 2026

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Influencer & partnerships 9

AI tools & automation 8

Vision & mission 6

• Micro-influencers beat paid ads for early-stage consumer brands.
• Multiple brand accounts fragment reach — one voice wins on social.
• AI can make physical toys interactive and subscription-driven.

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Using stoic principles to structure daily life and creative work

The Daily Stoic January 1, 2026

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 7

• Structure creates space for creativity — chaos alone drains it.
• Use social media as broadcast, not conversation, to stay sane.
• Notice diminishing returns, not the clock, to end a work session.

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Intellectual property

YouTube

How to create and protect intellectual property as a small business

KeyPersonOfInfluence January 1, 2026

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Intellectual property 9

Business models 7

• Copyright attaches automatically to anything you publish publicly.
• Descriptive names cannot be trademarked; invented names can.
• Productise IP across four categories: gift, prospects, core, clients.

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AI tools & automation

Podcast

Running an eight-figure B2B business with 1.2 humans and 20 AI agents

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth January 1, 2026

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AI tools & automation 10

B2B sales 7

Automation & tools 6

• SaaStr replaced 10 salespeople with 20 agents at equal revenue
• Mediocre SDRs and BDRs are effectively extinct within 12 months
• Agents only work when you train them yourself — vendors can't do it alone

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Long-term planning

YouTube

Focus on the critical few things to build compounding momentum

Cameron Herold December 31, 2025

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Long-term planning 8

Deep work & focus 6

• More initiatives slow growth — one or two focused bets compound.
• Redirect Health's 3,000 five-star reviews came from one relentless push.
• Escape velocity: heavy effort early, then momentum pays dividends forever.

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Goal setting

Podcast

Sahil Bloom on building a scoreboard that reflects what matters

How I Work December 31, 2025

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Goal setting 9

Identity & self-belief 7

Relationships & family 6

• Wrong metrics drive wrong actions — money alone is a broken scoreboard
• The new opportunity test: assume twice as hard, half as rewarding — still yes?
• Tiny consistent relationship actions compound more than occasional grand gestures

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

James Clear on habit identity, flexibility, and starting 2026 well

The Daily Stoic December 31, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Identity & self-belief 7

Deep work & focus 5

• Ask who you want to become, not what you want to achieve
• Real consistency means showing up small, not perfectly or not at all
• Goals produce one win; systems produce repeated wins

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Deep work & focus

YouTube

Bob Dylan's obsessive apprenticeship and the value of going where the action is

Tim Ferriss December 31, 2025

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Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 8

Vision & mission 6

• Dylan mastered folk music obsessively before he ever innovated
• He hitchhiked to New York to find one specific mentor: Woody Guthrie
• Physical epicenters multiply luck — serendipity can't be prompted

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