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Discover What's Holding Back Your Focus

Free 3-minute Focus Diagnostic

Sep 1, 2025 • Daniel Matteo

Discover Your Leadership Style

Answer 18 questions in <2 minutes and find out 💃

Jul 11, 2024 • Daniel Matteo

Why high-achievers set goals they never finish

The three problems with 'important' goals

Feb 3 • Daniel Matteo

Four Disciplines to Actually Execute Your Goals

Why even the clearest goals fail and how to fix it

Jan 27 • Daniel Matteo

Captured Attention, Captured Democracy

The Habits That Ruin Our Democracy #2

Jan 21 • Daniel Matteo

Recent posts

The Case for Being Unreasonable

The Habits That Ruin Our Democracy #1

Jan 13 • Daniel Matteo

My two lessons on focus as a new dad

Also relevant for non-parents

Jan 6 • Daniel Matteo

Three Levels of Clarity I Almost Missed

Foundational, systematic and in-the-moment

Sep 16, 2025 • Daniel Matteo

The One Thing You Know (But Aren't Doing)

A 7-day experiment to act on what you know

Sep 9, 2025 • Daniel Matteo

Podcast

35:31

Jennifer Nadel - Broken Politics & Compassion in Politics

Mental wellbeing crisis in politics and what we can do

Oct 22, 2024 • Daniel Matteo

18:44

Inner Game of Politics: 5 Obstacles

Lack of Focus, Chronic Stress, Cognitive Bias, House Divided, Power

Sep 10, 2024 • Daniel Matteo

32:24

Felix Sproll - Local politics, Europe, handling threats, and being honest

From Civil Society to the City Council of Munich

Jun 18, 2024 • Daniel Matteo

21:11

Better Decisions With Mental Models

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" George E.

Jun 4, 2024 • Daniel Matteo

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Resources

Book Review: The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Jan 23 • Daniel Matteo

Why Flow made my top 5 (and might deserve a spot in yours)

Plus: my book notes on the classic 'Flow' by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Jul 1, 2025 • Daniel Matteo

Book Review: Essentialism by Greg McKeown

The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Jun 24, 2025 • Daniel Matteo

Book Review: The Good Life by Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz

Lessons From The World's Longest Study on Happiness

Jul 30, 2024 • Daniel Matteo

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