Damon D'Amore

* Self-Competition: Only Compete With Your Past Self: “When you try to compete with others, you are following rules instead of creating your own game.”

* Financial Advice For My New Daughter: “Her only job now is eating and sleeping. But, one day, when she needs financial advice, here’s what I’ll tell her.”

* I Don’t Know: “The pursuit of ignorance will help you grow. Next time you don’t know the answer, see if you can will yourself to tell the other person ‘I don’t know.'”

* What To Do When It All Goes Wrong: “One of the hardest things to do is to get out of a rut. When things are going poorly, and you know you can do better. And you’re helpless.”

* It’s Better To Focus On Where You Are Going Than How You Are Feeling: “Think of valued living as going about your daily life in the service of values that you find important, whereby engaging in these actions creates a sense of meaning and purpose.”

* The Illusory Truth Effect: “Truth is a precarious thing, not because it doesn’t objectively exist, but because the incentives to warp it can be so strong.”

* How to Create Gratitude: “It’s important that it’s an ordinary moment, because those are the kinds of moments that often seem neutral in value. Abundant and unremarkable.”

* Emotionally Intelligent People Insert a Pause Between Action And Reaction: “Understanding your emotions is great, but what’s even more useful for you is making use of that knowledge.”

* Even The Best Are Really Bad At Part Of Their Job: “Olympians who participate in some of the hardest endurance races there are finishing in the BOTTOM 20% of the Grit Scale.”

* The Difference Between Getting By and Getting Better: “When you’re a kid learning to navigate life, you inevitably find certain things particularly challenging. So you figure out a way to get by.”

* Seth Godin / Brian Koppelman Interview on Professionals versus Hacks

* The Narrative Fallacy: “The deep structure of the mind is such that stories, reasons, and causes, things that points an arrow in the direction of Why, are the ones that stick most deeply.”

* Why Trying Too Hard Can Be Counterproductive: “If we can overcome the instinct to get in our own way and be more comfortable trusting in our innate abilities, the results may well be surprising.”

*Time Anxiety: “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

* Lessons from Roger Federer on Emotional Intelligence and Mental Toughness: “It is through modeling our behavior, in replication of transcendent people of high achievement that practice and preach time-tested values, that motivates us to high-levels of accomplishment.”

*11 Reasons Not to Become Famous: “If you’re interested in building a large audience to become rich and famous, some warnings and recommendations are in order. If you’re interested in building a large audience you also truly care about and with whom you are vulnerable, even more precautionary tales are in order.”

* Be Better At Life By Thinking About Yourself Less: “The more motivated we are, the greater the perception of effort we are willing to tolerate.”

* The Subtle Art of Minimizing Your “Ideal Self” Regrets: “Making a decision can be painful — not because you might get it wrong, but because it forces you to sacrifice all but one of your possible futures.”

* Risk Is What You Don’t See: “It’s impossible to plan for what you can’t imagine, and the more you think you’ve imagined everything the more shocked you’ll be when something happens that you hadn’t considered.”

* My Legacy: “I want to share my experiences as a female leader and as an entrepreneur. I want women to feel inspired that they can close the gender gap too! I want to have a tangible impact on the world.”

* Is Vulnerability a Choice?: “It’s a reality of living. What we do with that vulnerability can either open doors to deeper connection, or throw up walls that stifle growth and fulfillment.”

* How to Write a Book in Your Spare Time – On Time Management: “Time management is often more about the things you avoid as opposed to the things you do.”

* Why Developing Serious Relationships in Your 20s Matters: “As with coding and management and matters of finance and marketing, relationships have a learning curve.”

* Exercise Officially Makes You Happier Than Money: “You’d have to earn quite a lot more for your earnings to give you the same happiness-boosting effect any sport has.”

Below are some of the most intriguing, thought-provoking and actionable performance-related content pieces I read, watched or listened to this week. How To Go Deeper in 2020 “New worlds you will one day consider a part of yourself might lie only inches deeper than places you’ve been many times.” https://www.raptitude.com/2019/12/how-to-go-deeper-in-2020/ A Better Way To Think … Read more