What I’m Reading – Week of September 6th

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

[Pic: weekly ruck in the Santa Monica mountains]

  • Thinking For Oneself

“Wisdom is earned, not given. When other people give us the answer, it belongs to them and not us.”

https://fs.blog/2020/07/thinking-for-oneself/

  • How Smart People Make Better Decisions

“Every decision has a consequence, and that consequence has another consequence you are probably not aware of.”

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/second-and-third-order-thinking-how-smart-people-make-better-decisions-50d0842ac812

  • Time Anxiety

“We limit ourselves by always calculating the best potential outcome through our personal perception of possible. Beating time anxiety means shifting our focus from outcomes to output so we can spend our energy on things we can actually control.”

https://nesslabs.com/time-anxiety

  • What Visual Illusions Can Teach Us About Our Polarized World

“We’re not seeing reality. Our vision runs 100 milliseconds behind the real world.”

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/20978285/optical-illusion-science-humility-reality-polarization

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