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The User Manual for Founder Psychology
Content that helps founders scale.
Two Emotional Failure Modes: Reactivity and Paralysis
Founders commonly believe their emotions are a problem because they get habitually stuck in one of two emotional failure modes: reactivity or paralysis. Learn how to overcome both.
How to Process Your Emotions
Start processing your emotionns in 4 easy steps using this simple exercise adapted from Tara Brach's work.
Time Audit
This exercise is helpful for founders when they’re in The Pinch - when there is simply too much for any single human to do under the constraints of physical time.
Anxiety: A Functional Analysis
Realizing that anxiety serves a helpful function helps founders change their relationship to it in the moment.
Resentment
Resentment speaks to an imbalance in the relationship that you're ultimately responsible for - and capable of - solving.
Processing Your Emotions is a Competitive Advantage
Every startup founder feels a huge volume of emotions. Learning to process your emotions - relating to them as data and incorporating them into your workflow - is a competitive advantage.
Motivation
Motivation is your personal source of energy - the emotional engine that drives your ambition into reality.
Guilt and Burnout
The function that guilt serves is that it's an elastic. It *snaps* us back into line.
A Red Flag Worth Listening To in the Trough of Sorrow
A subtle inflection point worth listening to and learning from.