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Amor Fati - A Stoic and Nietzschean concept meaning 'love of fate' - embracing everything that happens.
Comfort Zone - A psychological state where activities feel familiar, routine, and safe, often limiting growth.
Dichotomy of Control - The Stoic principle of distinguishing between what is within our control and what is not, focusing energy only on the former.
Embrace Failure - The practice of welcoming failure as a necessary and valuable part of growth and achievement.
Embrace Imperfection - Accept that your first iteration may not be perfect and use it as a starting point.
Eventual Success - Success is not a one-time event but a process that comes from relentlessly showing up every day, even when you don't feel like it.
Failing Forward - Transforming failures into learning opportunities by treating each mistake as valuable data for growth.
Failure as Data - Treating each failure as an information point that refines understanding and strategy.
Failure as Feedback - Reframing failure as information about what doesn't work rather than personal inadequacy.
Failure as Identity - The harmful transformation of failure from an action (I failed) into an identity (I am a failure).
Failure Attribution - The explanations people create for why failures occurred, affecting learning and future behavior.
Failure Mindset - A perspective that views failure as necessary feedback and opportunity rather than defeat.
Favorable Principle - Pay attention to opportunities and give yourself a chance to pursue your dreams.
Gradually, Then Suddenly - Major outcomes like success or failure accumulate gradually through small actions before appearing to happen all at once.
Gratitude Mindset - A habitual perspective that notices and appreciates the positive aspects of experiences.
Growth Mindset - The belief that abilities can be developed through effort and learning.
GYST (Get Your Shit Together) - A productivity reset framework for when you're overwhelmed and need to regain control of your work and life.
Inner Critic - The internal voice of harsh self-judgment and negative self-evaluation.
Learned Helplessness - A psychological state where repeated failures lead to giving up even when success becomes possible.
Limiting Beliefs - Self-imposed mental constraints that hold you back from reaching your potential.
Locus of Control - A psychological concept describing whether people believe outcomes are controlled by themselves (internal) or by external forces like fate, luck, or others (external).
Make Peace with the Past - The practice of releasing grudges, regrets, and unresolved issues to prevent them from negatively affecting your present well-being and future growth.
Mastery Approach - Focusing on learning, improvement, and skill development rather than demonstrating performance.
Mental Strength - Building resilience and achieving goals by doing hard things when it's time, whether motivated or not.
Millionaire Behavior - A set of behavioral patterns and mindsets commonly observed among highly successful people who build lasting wealth.
Money as a Tool - Money is a means to achieve goals and create options, not an end goal in itself.
Money Game vs Status Game - A distinction between pursuing wealth (a positive-sum game that can benefit everyone) versus pursuing status (a zero-sum game where gains come at others' expense).
Notes as Cattle, Not Pets - Treat notes as part of a dynamic, evolving system rather than precious individual artifacts.
Overnight Success Myth - The illusion that successful people achieved their success quickly, hiding years of work behind the scenes.
Patience - The deliberate ability to remain calm and think long-term when facing delays, challenges, or adversity, enabling better decisions and personal growth.
Performance Approach - Focusing on demonstrating competence and outperforming others rather than learning.
Persistence - The sustained effort and determination to continue pursuing goals despite obstacles.
Positive Psychology - A field of psychology research that aims to understand how positivity can enable individuals, communities, and organizations to thrive.
Positive Self-Talk - Intentionally using supportive, encouraging internal dialogue to improve mindset and performance.
Process Over Outcome - Focusing on the quality of your process rather than fixating on results leads to better outcomes and more enjoyment along the way.
Productive Laziness - The practice of finding the most efficient path to accomplish goals by eliminating unnecessary work.
Progress is Rarely Linear - Real progress comes in spurts after periods of seemingly stagnant effort.
Radical Ownership - Taking complete responsibility for your life, career, and outcomes - no excuses, no blaming others or circumstances.
Reality-Perception Gap - Problems arise from conflicts between our expectations and our inherently incomplete, biased perception of reality.
Resilience - The capacity to recover from difficulties, adapt to change, and keep going in the face of adversity.
The Second Arrow - A Buddhist parable teaching that while we cannot control external pain (the first arrow), we can choose not to inflict additional suffering on ourselves through our reactions (the second arrow).
Stoic Archer - Focus on what you can control (aim) while accepting what you cannot (wind, outcome).
Stress Mindset - Your beliefs about stress - whether you view it as enhancing or debilitating - affects how it actually impacts you.
Strong Opinions Loosely Held - Committing to a viewpoint while remaining open to changing it when presented with new evidence.
Success Identity - Seeing yourself as someone who succeeds - identity-level belief in your capacity for achievement.
Success Invites Success - When you succeed once, you become more likely to succeed again, creating a virtuous circle through the compound effect.
Success Trap - When past success prevents necessary adaptation and becomes an obstacle to future success.
Talent vs Effort - The debate about whether innate ability or sustained effort matters more for achievement.
The 10 Percent Target - Whatever you want most in life, make 10 attempts - getting comfortable with failing 90% of the time builds resilience and skill.
Time Affluence - The subjective feeling of having abundant time, enabling presence and intentional choices.
Time Perspective - An individual's habitual orientation toward past, present, or future that shapes behavior.
Time Scarcity Mindset - A mental framework that perceives time as perpetually insufficient, driving rushed behavior.
Who Knows Anyway - Others do not necessarily know more than you; impressions should not stop you from pursuing your ideas.
You Are Not Your Code - Separating your identity and self-worth from the quality of the code you write.

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