Science-Backed Toughness Guide for Action‑Driven Procrastinators
A practical, science based guide to toughening up — for those who can only “just do it” when conditions are right. @DrAndyGalpin PERFORM podcast hits another grand slam:
Enduring Confidence Comes From Competence or Resilient Learning
Real (durable) confidence can only be earned via either developed competence and/or the meta skill of being able to try something, get rejected, learn from it and keep trying until you get good.
Resilience Pays: Clive Davis Bounced Back Stronger
Clive Davis was fired by Columbia, pushed out at Arista, but bounced back stronger each time. It’s a great lesson on resilience and leverage.
Mastering Speech Anxiety: Mind, Body, Logistics
Q: How do you handle the anticipation of waiting your turn to make a speech? A: Many participants ask this question in every single speaking class I teach. There are more facets to this question than you may realize, including mental,...
Emotional Regulation Beats Marketing in E‑commerce Success
The most underrated ecom skill isn't marketing. It's emotional regulation. Staying calm when your best ad account gets banned. Not getting euphoric over one good sales day. That's the real game.
Create Self‑Running Systems to Escape Daily Grind
Major life hack: build systems that run without you, or you'll never escape the day-to-day.
Hire for Resilience and Agency, Not Just IQ/EQ
Most hiring conversations focus on IQ and EQ. But Tako co-founder Sebastian Mejia spends most of his time on 2 other corners: AQ ("adversity quotient" or resilience) and Agency. His framing: to build a global company, you need to attract...
Treat Therapy and Exercise as Job Search Essentials
Therapy, physical activity, and meditation during a job search aren't luxuries. They're part of the strategy. Protect your mental state like it's a job requirement.
Release Resistance: Breathe, Relax, and Embrace Experience
" Let go of the battle. Breathe deeply and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. open to whtever you experience without fighting." ~ Jack Kornfield https://t.co/4UqZmgP2vZ
Great Leaders Turn Criticism Into Growth Data
Leaders are people too. It’s easy to take things personally. But the best leaders have mastered the art of objectivity. They don’t let criticism derail them... It’s a data point used for growth. Here’s how to do it:
Eliminate Friction: Make Your Time Work Efficiently
LIVE NOW: The Friction Problem: Why Your Time Isn't Working (and What to Do About It) https://t.co/fwFxX4CMqr via @YouTube
Scale Fast, but only when Your Business Is Ready
One of the hardest things a founder has to deal with is moving as fast as possible without rushing. Trying to grow a business that isn't ready for it is pushing on a string and will lead to burnout.
Success Isn’t Enough—Therapy Keeps Me Grounded
Decided I'm gonna go back to therapy. I'm actually the happiest I've been in a long time. I've finally built great friendships and a found family in New York, I just tackled the last remnants of some old financial trauma I...
Reconnecting Body Awareness Boosts Sleep and Healing
72% of people in trauma therapy can describe their emotions in detail. Only 28% can locate where those emotions live in their body. That gap has a name, "interoceptive dissociation." Here's how to rebuild it, and why your sleep, your emotions, and...
Four Questions to Know When to Delegate Decisions
Should You Delegate That Decision? Ask These 4 Questions - https://t.co/ZYqetPMEAZ - https://t.co/1oObzNjeuR - by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
Stop Overthinking, Start Enjoying the Present Moment
When we are caught up in thoughts about life we tend to enjoy it less. We get caught up listening to the commentary. https://t.co/oO66gxPptN
Stop Context Switching to Boost Bioinformatics Productivity
🧵 Bioinformaticians: Drowning in multiple projects? Here's why context switching is killing your productivity—and how to fix it. https://t.co/VIGWIz78Zt
Excellence Is a Habit, Not a One‑Time Act
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Insight Is Evidence, Not the Decision Itself
Insight Is Evidence, Not an Answer https://t.co/RIBOEtPZ3R Orgs don’t stall because they lack #insight. They stall because they mistake insight for the answer. There’s this expectation that insight should/will arrive already translated into a decision. #decisionmaking #leaders https://t.co/vqHYapT1w6
Avoid FOMO: Build Success with Skill, Discipline, Experience
The one piece of advice I wish I would have given myself 10 years ago is to never make a single decision out of FOMO. All great things come from skill, discipline, and experience.
Diagnose First, Close Later: Rethink Sales Strategy
Worst sales advice I ever received: "Always be closing." It creates desperate, pushy, approval-seeking behavior. The best advice I ever received: "Always be diagnosing." Diagnose the problem deeper than anyone else. The close takes care of itself.
Focus on Output, Not Busyness, to Achieve Goals
Busyness is often just procrastination in disguise. Track output, not hours. If it doesn’t move your goal forward, it doesn’t get your time.
Feel First, Think Second, Let Performance Follow
In physical training most coaches lead with the performance results. I think about those last. My prescription follows: Feel first. Mind second. Performance third. Performance is almost always a byproduct of getting the first two right.
Spot the Signs You’re Not Fully Committed
Great post and list of "10 Things That Tell You You’re Not…ALL IN!" Especially #1, #3 and #4 -- most of us have been there at least at one time or another.🫤 https://t.co/1syr4FY3nQ
10 Neuroscience-Backed Tips for a Stronger Brain
This month marks 10 years of TPH so we are celebrating with an episode about the top 10 neuroscience-backed tips for a stronger brain https://t.co/JfCASsdyaN
Embrace Boring Habits for an Extraordinary Life
Who else loves living a “boring” life? Underrated life hack: Being boring in the right ways. Go to bed early. Wake up early. Eat simple foods. Save money. Exercise. Read old books. Avoid drama. These aren’t flashy, but the ordinary will...
Start Now
I know you keep thinking you need to feel different before you begin, but most people start exactly like this.
Results Over Friendliness: Direct Leadership Drives Success
The first day our new Sales VP arrived at TrueSAN in 2001, he came into the all-company meeting and made an announcement in just about this many words: “I am not here to make friends. I have been hired to...
Catastrophic Thoughts Follow a Script—Learn to Interrupt
I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research. Your brain doesn't catastrophize randomly. It follows a script. Here's what the script looks like (and how to interrupt it):
Skip Fancy Systems; Finish One Small Task Daily
You don't need a clever productivity system. You need to finish one small thing at a time.
Master Covey’s 8 Habits for Personal Effectiveness
8 habits of highly effective people, by Stephen Covey: 1 be proactive 2 begin with end in mind 3 put first things first 4 think win-win 5 seek first to understand, then be understood 6 synergize 7 sharpen...
Six Mental Hacks Turned My Writing Into $20M Business
Writing online is one of the best habits you can build. But in my first 9 months: • I had under 100 followers • I wrote blogs no one read • I was ready to quit entirely So I found 6 mental hacks to keep...
Stop Performing, Start Building Real Outcomes
The moment you realize nobody's tracking your progress: You stop performing for an imaginary audience And start building for real outcomes
Swap “I Can’t” For “How Can I?” – It Changes Everything
A lesson I wish I learned earlier: replace “I can’t” with “How can I?” it changes everything.
Simple Daily Habits Are My Ultimate Looksmaxxing Stack
my real “looksmaxxing” stack: - sunlight - 225g protein + single ingredient foods - 6x per week lifting/running - in-person human interaction - sex - evening sauna - wild roman skincare - meaningful deep work - daily walks (no phone) - 7-8 hours of sleep that’s it.
Over‑editing Videos Is Procrastination, Not Dedication
Spending three hours editing a 60-second video is not dedication... it's procrastination, and not a good use of time as a business owner when you need to be making MONEY.
Neuroscience-Backed Tips to Reduce Anxiety & Depression
What's the smallest possible thing you could do today to feel less anxious and depressed? To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 10% Happier podcast, I invited Dr. Wendy Suzuki and Dr. Amishi Jha to share their top 10 neuroscience-backed tips...
Senior Engineers Thrive by Learning, Not Knowing Everything
Being a senior engineer isn’t about knowing everything. It’s about being capable of learning anything. Drop me into a project with a tech stack I’ve never used. I’ll still find a way to make an impact.
Embrace Dimensional Traits Over Fixed Personality Types
Try seeing your personality as dimensional https://t.co/jKkSJBKQUF First Psyche Note to Self by @a_e_arthur @psyche_the_mag I recently learned the distinction between seeing personality in terms of types vs traits – the latter is liberating https://t.co/6mpWPGHrRR
Persistence and Discipline Drive Long-Term Success
“Persistence and discipline are key traits for long-term success in any field.” — Jim Simons https://t.co/lN3TkELdc4
Five Habits That Erode Respect, Says Warren Buffett
5 Common Habits That Make People Lose Respect For You, According To Warren Buffett https://t.co/NYsN1qvGZT
Find Calm in Silence Amid Life's Noise
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste And remember what peace there may be in silence"
Master Four Core Skills for Leadership Attunement
Explore the four core skills that every leader and team member should hone. This is the insight that leaders and teams need to master attunement. https://t.co/5w48xuDobg #leadership #employeeengagement #employees
Your Pace Matters More than Others' Speed
Just because you haven't achieved something as quick as a peer, mentor, friend or colleague - doesn't mean you failed. Don't forget that.
Zero Meetings Drive Faster Growth Through Autonomy
At my company we have ZERO meetings. And we're growing fast. Here's how we do it: 1. ANYONE can make a decision Most meetings are a way to avoid making hard decisions. Or a way to have 107 different people "give their input". Instead,...
GenAI Bridges My Executive Functioning Gaps
I’ve spent the last two months of my free time designing and implementing genAI experiments to help fill some of my executive functioning gaps. The most successful? * An executive functioning assistant trained on neurodivergence, PDA, RSD, and relationship maintenance gaps...
Growth Desired, Yet Habits for It Are Resisted
Most people want growth, but resist the habits that make growth unavoidable over time. ✅
Break Fearful Habits to Unleash Your Strongest Self
A wise friend once told me: The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you’re afraid to break.
Speak Only on What You Actually Know
Saying this with love… don’t come for me. Stop giving advice if you don’t actually know what you’re talking about and have the experience. I only talk about what I actually do and test myself. And even then? I don’t know everything. Pretending...
Overcome Change Resistance by Addressing Fearful Threats
Resistance to change often stems from fear of the unknown. People worry about losing familiar tools, having their expertise centralized, or even job automation. Addressing these perceived threats is key to overcoming resistance. #ChangeManagement #FearOfChange https://t.co/iTioqPIiQd