{"id":1018,"date":"2020-06-21T15:04:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2020-06-21T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T22:04:03","slug":"im-reading-week-june-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-june-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of June 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are some of the most intriguing, thought-provoking and actionable performance-related content pieces I read, watched or listened to this week.<\/p>\n<p>[pic: Happy Birthday this week to my pup Dubya who turned 9 years old]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1019\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dubya-spring-2016-1024x974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dubya-spring-2016-1024x974.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dubya-spring-2016-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dubya-spring-2016-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dubya-spring-2016.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stop Preparing For The Last Disaster<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;The same disasters tend not to happen twice in a row. A more effective approach is simply to prepare to be surprised by life, instead of expecting the past to repeat itself.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/06\/last-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/06\/last-disaster\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Body Of Work<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;It exists inside you \u2026 and has existed from the moment you were born, and possibly even before that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenpressfield.com\/2020\/06\/a-body-of-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/stevenpressfield.com\/2020\/06\/a-body-of-work\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why Do People Avoid Facts That Could Help Them?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Deliberate ignorance is a widespread preference not only in relation to painful news and events, such as death and divorce, but also pleasurable ones, such as birth. Research shows that people enjoy the suspense.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-do-people-avoid-facts-that-could-help-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/why-do-people-avoid-facts-that-could-help-them\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Luck Relative to Hard Work<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u201cAbsolute success is luck. Relative success is hard work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesclear.com\/luck-vs-hard-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/jamesclear.com\/luck-vs-hard-work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, follow my Legacy Mentor feed on Instagram for daily quotes, book and product reviews, and knowledge bombs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post originally appeared at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.damondamore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Stop Preparing For The Last Disaster:  &#8220;The same disasters tend not to happen twice in a row. A more effective approach is simply to prepare to be surprised by life, instead of expecting the past to repeat itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* A Body Of Work:  &#8220;It exists inside you \u2026 and has existed from the moment you were born, and possibly even before that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Why Do People Avoid Facts That Could Help Them?:  &#8220;Deliberate ignorance is a widespread preference not only in relation to painful news and events, such as death and divorce, but also pleasurable ones, such as birth. Research shows that people enjoy the suspense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Luck Relative to Hard Work:  \u201cAbsolute success is luck. Relative success is hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,66],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[91,92,37,93,96,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}