Below are some of the most intriguing, thought-provoking and actionable performance-related content pieces I read and watched this week:
- On The Value of Distraction
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-new-theory-of-distraction
“What if, in fact, we’re not very good at being distracted? What if we actually don’t value distraction enough?”
- On Self Doubt
https://stevenpressfield.com/2018/09/self-doubt-is-good/
“For every measure of self-doubt we experience consciously, there is an equal and opposite measure of self-belief growing and enlarging itself unconsciously. Our self-doubt is the inverse manifestation of our artistic dream.
The greater the one, the greater the other.”
- On The Different Types of ‘Smart’
https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/different-kinds-of-smart/
“The smart way to handle long-term thinking is enjoying what you’re doing day to day enough that the terminal rewards don’t constantly cross your mind.”
- On The Value of Not Knowing
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/11/value-dont-know/
“The way we traditionally conceive of ignorance—as an absence of knowledge—leads us to think of education as its natural antidote. But education can produce illusory confidence.”