Content that scales you
The User Manual for Founder Psychology
Drawn from thousands of hours coaching YC Founders, The User Manual for Founder Psychology contains essays and practical frameworks that help founders build resilience, trust, and authentic leadership as their startups scale.
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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.
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.
How to Process Your Emotions
Start processing your emotionns in 4 easy steps using this simple exercise adapted from Tara Brach's work.
Motivation
Motivation is your personal source of energy - the emotional engine that drives your ambition into reality.
Resentment
Resentment speaks to an imbalance in the relationship that you're ultimately responsible for - and capable of - solving.
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.
Anxiety: A Functional Analysis
Realizing that anxiety serves a helpful function helps founders change their relationship to it in the moment.
What It Means to Scale Yourself
Your startup will challenge you to to grow in three dimensions simultaneously: scale your psychology, scale your relationships, scale process and culture.