What I’m Reading – The Week of November 24th

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

  • On Why We Often Remember Bad Memories Rather Than Good

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/01/why-we-often-remember-bad-better-than-good/?utm_term=.60decf5c249d

Memories are fallible. Long-term memories are nearly always wrong.”

  • On the Importance of Long Term Thinking in a Society Dominated by Instant Gratification

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/great-things-take-time/

The information you consume will likely one day provide you with some benefit, you just don’t know where yet. It just takes time.”

  • When a Stress Expert Battles Mental Illness

https://www.outsideonline.com/2279856/anxiety-cant-be-trained-away

It’s hard to reconcile being an ‘expert’ on performance and experiencing what I’m experiencing. At times, I feel like a fraud and an impostor, fragile and scared.”

  • On Taking Risk and Timing

http://blairbellecurve.com/mine/

Isn’t that what drives us? The desire to acquire more, even if not necessarily more things but more knowledge, more skills, more experiences, more praise, more power.”

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