{"id":1139,"date":"2020-10-25T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T21:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2020-10-25T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T21:37:39","slug":"im-reading-week-october-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-october-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of October 25th"},"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-full wp-image-1140\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IG-kill.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IG-kill.png 528w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IG-kill-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Emotions really do work like sets of spectacles.\u00a0It is a huge help to know which lens you\u2019re seeing the world through, at any given moment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2015\/05\/basic-skill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2015\/05\/basic-skill\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"><strong>On the Illusion of Choice (short video)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<em>Young people have the illusion of choices. But if you want to be good, you have no choices.<\/em>\u201d &#8211; Nick Saban<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R0CAAlMo3f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R0CAAlMo3f8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What Sharks Can Teach Us About Survivorship Bias<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;If we focus only on the survivor stories, we might think that being a real estate agent or an architect is safer than starting a technology company.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/10\/sharks-survivorship-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/10\/sharks-survivorship-bias\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Resilience: What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Planning for forever is essentially impossible, which can actually be freeing: It brings you back into the present.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/23\/sports\/sled-dogs-mushing-unknowns-planning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/23\/sports\/sled-dogs-mushing-unknowns-planning.html<\/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>* On the Illusion of Choice (short video): \u201cYoung people have the illusion of choices. But if you want to be good, you have no choices.\u201d &#8211; Nick Saban<\/p>\n<p>* A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids:  &#8220;Emotions really do work like sets of spectacles.\u00a0It is a huge help to know which lens you\u2019re seeing the world through, at any given moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* What Sharks Can Teach Us About Survivorship Bias:  &#8220;If we focus only on the survivor stories, we might think that being a real estate agent or an architect is safer than starting a technology company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Resilience: What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown:  &#8220;Planning for forever is essentially impossible, which can actually be freeing: It brings you back into the present.&#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":[64,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"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=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}