{"id":1248,"date":"2020-12-20T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2020-12-20T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:34:48","slug":"what-im-reading-week-of-december-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/what-im-reading-week-of-december-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of December 20th"},"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\n<p>[pic: @LegacyMentorOfficial IG page]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-rilke-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-rilke-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-rilke-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-rilke-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IG-rilke.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CI67sxZn_Jk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CI67sxZn_Jk\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>&#8220;Don\u2019t Look Back and Don\u2019t Look Down&#8221;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>We\u2019re talking here about a discipline of the mind. Mental toughness. A choice that you and I make (and hold ourselves to) as professionals \u2026 a deliberate act<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevenpressfield.com\/2020\/12\/dont-look-back-and-dont-look-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/stevenpressfield.com\/2020\/12\/dont-look-back-and-dont-look-down\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Highlights From 2020\u2019s Farnam Street \u201cAsk Me Anything\u201d Sessions (Video and Text)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/12\/2020-amas\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/12\/2020-amas\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Marc Andreessen On Productivity, Scheduling, Reading Habits, Work, and More<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The sheer load of the number of things coming at me and coming at the senior partners here is just very intense. That has forced a comprehensive shift to a far more structured way of living. It\u2019s actually by far the most structured I\u2019ve ever been.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/2020\/09\/07\/on-productivity-scheduling-reading-habits-marc-andreessen\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/a16z.com\/2020\/09\/07\/on-productivity-scheduling-reading-habits-marc-andreessen\/<\/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=\"noreferrer noopener\">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=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Don\u2019t Look Back and Don\u2019t Look Down:  &#8220;We\u2019re talking here about a discipline of the mind. Mental toughness. A choice that you and I make (and hold ourselves to) as professionals \u2026 a deliberate act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Highlights From 2020\u2019s Farnam Street \u201cAsk Me Anything\u201d (Video)<\/p>\n<p>* Marc Andreessen On Productivity, Scheduling, Reading Habits, Work, and More:  &#8220;The sheer load of the number of things coming at me and coming at the senior partners here is just very intense. That has forced a comprehensive shift to a far more structured way of living. It\u2019s actually by far the most structured I\u2019ve ever been.&#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\/1248"}],"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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}