{"id":1283,"date":"2021-01-24T17:57:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T01:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2021-01-24T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T01:57:21","slug":"what-im-reading-week-of-january-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/what-im-reading-week-of-january-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of January 24th"},"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: IG @legacymentorofficial]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"874\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/342567-1024x874.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/342567-1024x874.png 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/342567-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/342567-768x655.png 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/342567.png 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Why You Should Practice Failure<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;How many of us make deliberate mistakes? How often do we try to fail in order to learn from it?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2021\/01\/practice-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2021\/01\/practice-failure\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Clean the Tiles &#8211; Not the Floor<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The real pain of many tasks is psychological, arising from the way the mind processes them, not so much from the actions that constitute the tasks themselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2021\/01\/clean-the-tiles-not-the-floor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2021\/01\/clean-the-tiles-not-the-floor\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>On Cultivating and Sustaining Love<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Love is losing yourself in the process of caring about and showing undivided attention to someone or something, through ups and downs. It\u2019s as simple and as hard as that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/love-is-an-ongoing-practice-46412a2d68ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/love-is-an-ongoing-practice-46412a2d68ba<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>On Planning For The Ups and Downs of Happiness<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>There are time when all the lies you have told yourself about yourself just fall away<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abnormalreturns.com\/2017\/12\/19\/disappointed-and-pessimistic-planning-for-lifes-happiness-trough\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/abnormalreturns.com\/2017\/12\/19\/disappointed-and-pessimistic-planning-for-lifes-happiness-trough\/<\/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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.damondamore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Why You Should Practice Failure: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many of us make deliberate mistakes? How often do we try to fail in order to learn from it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Cultivating and Sustaining Love:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love is losing yourself in the process of caring about and showing undivided attention to someone or something, through ups and downs. It\u2019s as simple and as hard as that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Planning For The Ups and Downs of Happiness<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are time when all the lies you have told yourself about yourself just fall away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*Clean the Tiles &#8211; Not the Floor:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real pain of many tasks is psychological, arising from the way the mind processes them, not so much from the actions that constitute the tasks themselves.&#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\/1283"}],"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=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}