{"id":1224,"date":"2020-12-13T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T22:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2020-12-14T22:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T06:30:43","slug":"im-reading-week-december-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-december-13th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of December 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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\n\n<p>[pic: @LegacyMentorOfficial IG page]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIjLvJBnoJj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-JP-frotnier-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-JP-frotnier-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-JP-frotnier-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-JP-frotnier-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-JP-frotnier.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Practice = Professional<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;All are here to serve a higher purpose, to seek, in the training and conflict between and among one another, to realize the best of themselves. That\u2019s you and me every day at the easel, at the piano, at the keyboard. That\u2019s a practice.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenpressfield.com\/2020\/12\/practice-professional\/\">https:\/\/stevenpressfield.com\/2020\/12\/practice-professional\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>The Comfortable Misery Syndrome<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;If everything is too good, you\u2019re probably stuck not being awesome.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/the-comfortable-misery-syndrome-why-people-choose-misery-over-change-fee9b3577644\">https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/the-comfortable-misery-syndrome-why-people-choose-misery-over-change-fee9b3577644<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>You\u2019re Only As Good As Your Worst Day<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;As individuals, we tell people the most about who we are when everything goes wrong.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/12\/worst-day\/\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/12\/worst-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, follow my Legacy Mentor feed on Instagram for daily quotes, book and product reviews, and knowledge bombs.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This post originally appeared at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.damondamore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* You\u2019re Only As Good As Your Worst Day:  &#8220;As individuals, we tell people the most about who we are when everything goes wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Practice = Professional:  &#8220;All are here to serve a higher purpose, to seek, in the training and conflict between and among one another, to realize the best of themselves. That\u2019s you and me every day at the easel, at the piano, at the keyboard. That\u2019s a practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Comfortable Misery Syndrome:  &#8220;If everything is too good, you\u2019re probably stuck not being awesome.&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224"}],"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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}