What I’m Reading – Week of February 2nd

Below are some of the most intriguing, thought-provoking and actionable performance-related content pieces I read, watched or listened to this week.

[pic: Keynote speech on Resilience 2019]

  • Time Anxiety

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

https://nesslabs.com/time-anxiety

(Big thanks to Pamela Hobart for introducing me to Ness Labs – her block rocks and lots of great reading resources like this time anxiety post https://www.pamelajhobart.com/)

  • 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.”

https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/

  • 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.”

https://fs.blog/2020/01/inner-game-of-tennis/

  • 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.”

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/what-we-can-learn-from-roger-federer-on-resilience-emotional-intelligence-and-mental-toughness-e7f0a55119fc

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