HeyJaredThe Daily Discipline from Project MNDST
Project MNDST: Daily Discipline is your daily mental training in under 3 minutes.Each episode delivers one powerful mindset framework—drawn from elite athletes like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, cutting-edge psychology, Stoic philosophy, and peak performance science.What…
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Episode 144: Hormesis: The Right Dose of Stress (opens the original)
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Today's episode teaches hormesis — the biological principle that the right dose of stress is the signal to adapt and grow. Drawing on exercise science, Kelly McGonigal's research on stress and mortality, and Nassim Taleb's concept of antifragility, the episode shows how calibrated difficulty makes us stronger — and why removing all friction removes the instruction to improve. The one action: find the thing you've been avoiding and do it once today, at full commitment. Key Topics: hormesis, resil
Episode 143: Systems Over Goals (opens the original)
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Today's episode teaches Scott Adams's model of Systems Over Goals — the idea that a goal tells you where you want to go, but a system is what you actually do each day to get there. From Adams's own account in How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big to the British Cycling team's decade-long transformation under Dave Brailsford, the episode shows why durable progress lives in daily behavior, not distant targets. Your one small action today: name one thing you want to improve and write d
Episode 142: Digital Minimalism: Choose Your Tools on Purpose (opens the original)
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Today's episode teaches Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport's framework for choosing your tools on purpose rather than letting them accumulate by default. We look at the real cost of an unconsidered digital environment — from Gloria Mark's research on attention recovery to Newport's thirty-day declutter — and land on one small act of reclamation you can try right now. Key Topics: digital minimalism, focus, attention, Cal Newport, intentional technology use, distraction, mental clarity Subscribe to T
Episode 141: The Flywheel: How Momentum Actually Builds (opens the original)
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Today's episode teaches the Flywheel Effect, Jim Collins's model from his landmark research in Good to Great — the idea that lasting momentum isn't built by one dramatic push, but by consistent turns that gradually make the wheel spin itself. We trace it through Amazon's compounding growth loop and the quiet daily work behind Michael Jordan's championships, and land on one small action you can take today. Key Topics: flywheel effect, Jim Collins, momentum, consistency, habit and systems, action
Episode 140: Expected Value: The Math Under Every Real Bet (opens the original)
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Today's episode teaches expected value — one of the oldest and most clarifying tools in decision theory — and how thinking in probabilities and payoffs can shift you from chasing outcomes to building better judgment. From Buffett's purchase of See's Candies to a single hand of poker, the model shows up anywhere serious decisions get made, and today's small action gives you a way to apply it to something you're facing right now. Key Topics: expected value, decision-making, probability, mental mod
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