The unreasonable ask

If you love this content (please share it), but also check out my Podcast & connect with me on YouTube / Twitter. We turn your favorite newsletters into podcasts at 10minmindset.org The ask changes you more than the answer does. Vanessa Bohns, a social psychologist at Cornell, has spent fifteen years asking a simple question: when you ask someone for…

Scott ClaryApril 11, 2026

The treadmill

If you love this content (please share it), but also check out my Podcast & connect with me on YouTube / Twitter. We turn your favorite newsletters into podcasts at 10minmindset.org Gratitude and ambition aren’t opposites. They’re the only two things that keep each other from becoming dangerous. Ed Catmull spent twenty years trying to make a computer-animated film. He’d…

Scott ClaryMarch 1, 2026

Same tools, different taste

If you love this content (please share it), but also check out my Podcast & connect with me on YouTube / Twitter. We turn your favorite newsletters into podcasts at 10minmindset.org In 2013, the Chicago Sun-Times fired all 28 of its staff photographers. Every single one. Including John H. White, who had won a Pulitzer Prize. The plan was simple.…

Scott ClaryFebruary 14, 2026

Happiness is what’s left when you stop adding

If you love this content (please share it), but also check out my Podcast & connect with me on YouTube / Twitter. We turn your favorite newsletters into podcasts at 10minmindset.org You hit the goal. The revenue number. The promotion. The follower count. The thing you told yourself would change how you feel. For about 72 hours, it does. You…

Scott ClaryFebruary 14, 2026

Why smart people stay stuck

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Scott ClaryFebruary 14, 2026

You Don’t Actually Want Good Advice

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.com Asking for advice vs. asking for permission. One seeks truth. The other seeks comfort. We've confused the two so…

Scott ClaryJuly 29, 2025

The Comfort Trap

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.com There's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. One creates results. The other prevents them. The achievement theater…

Scott ClaryJuly 21, 2025

The Certainty Trap

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.com There's a difference between not knowing and pretending to know. One builds credibility. The other destroys it. Not knowing…

Scott ClaryJuly 14, 2025

This Is Dangerous Advice

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.com The most dangerous advice comes from people who survived something you've never experienced. Advice is just other people's trauma…

Scott ClaryJuly 12, 2025

The “Finding Yourself” Epidemic

This is my free weekly edition of my newsletter. For more insights, including weekly deep dives, powerful ideas & proven strategies from my work with some of the world’s most successful people, click here to become a paid subscriber @ newsletter.scottdclary.com Two words I wish someone had told me when I was 22. Choose delusion. Because every single thing you…

Scott ClaryJuly 4, 2025