{"id":1128,"date":"2020-10-17T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T00:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2020-10-17T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T00:35:55","slug":"im-reading-week-october-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-october-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of October 18th"},"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: @LegacyMentorOfficial IG page]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1129\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JP-1024x1022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JP-1024x1022.png 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JP-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JP-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JP-768x766.png 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/JP.png 1298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Common Causes of Very Bad Decisions<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Being influenced by the actions of people who are playing a different game than you are.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/bad-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/bad-decisions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How To Practice Long-Term Thinking When You Can Barely See Past Tomorrow<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;While the future is certain, you can still create it by what you choose to do or fail to do.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/how-to-practice-long-term-thinking-when-you-can-barely-see-past-tomorrow-a5f68540aa8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/how-to-practice-long-term-thinking-when-you-can-barely-see-past-tomorrow-a5f68540aa8a<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Foster Wallace On The Meaning Of Life (Audio)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;2005 commencement speech which was the basis for his book on the same subject.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2012\/04\/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2012\/04\/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Survivorship Bias<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;While optimism can actually be helpful, inflating our likelihood of success because we forget to include failures in our dataset will add unnecessary risk to an already complex decision-making process.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesslabs.com\/survivorship-bias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/nesslabs.com\/survivorship-bias<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Common Causes of Very Bad Decisions:  &#8220;Being influenced by the actions of people who are playing a different game than you are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* How To Practice Long-Term Thinking When You Can Barely See Past Tomorrow:  &#8220;While the future is certain, you can still create it by what you choose to do or fail to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Survivorship Bias:  &#8220;While optimism can actually be helpful, inflating our likelihood of success because we forget to include failures in our dataset will add unnecessary risk to an already complex decision-making process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* David Foster Wallace On The Meaning Of Life (Audio):  &#8220;2005 commencement speech which was the basis for his book on the same subject.&#8221;<\/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":[326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128"}],"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=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}