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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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Relationship Debt & the Level 3 Conversation
Relationship debt is just like technical debt: It builds when founders avoid tough conversations and emotions, and it kills founding teams when left unchecked. Learn how a ‘Level 3 Conversation’ will clear relationship debt and keep your relationship healthy.
Tough Conversation Starter Pack
A list of questions that cofounders commonly disagree about that you should start discussing *now*.
Confidence
'Self trust' is a synonym for confidence. Rebuilding it doesn’t require you to take the 'right' action, and it doesn't require you to believe in yourself either. All it takes is for you to make - and keep - small promises to yourself, over and over again.
Motivation
Motivation is your personal source of energy - the emotional engine that drives your ambition into reality.
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.