{"id":1360,"date":"2021-03-21T16:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T23:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2021-03-21T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T23:32:38","slug":"what-im-reading-week-of-march-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/what-im-reading-week-of-march-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of March 21st"},"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 @<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\">legacymentorofficial<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JP-1024x884.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JP-1024x884.png 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JP-300x259.png 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JP-768x663.png 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JP.png 1164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Avoiding Bad Decisions<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Our evolutionary programming conditions us to do what\u2019s easy over what\u2019s right. After all, it\u2019s often easier to signal being virtuous than to actually be virtuous.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2021\/03\/avoid-bad-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2021\/03\/avoid-bad-decisions\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Pure Downside, No Silver Lining<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Pessimism is usually just extrapolating bad events without considering the offsetting reactions that push things in the other direction. That\u2019s why it\u2019s often wrong.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/pure-downside-no-silver-lining\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/pure-downside-no-silver-lining\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>On Going Deep Versus Going Broad<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Depth wasn\u2019t so much a game of persistently striving to top myself, it was more like a new lens for looking at the tools and opportunities that had always been there<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2018\/12\/why-the-depth-year-was-my-best-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2018\/12\/why-the-depth-year-was-my-best-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>On Being Alone<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a sign of weakness to feel lonely<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/i-thought-i-was-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/i-thought-i-was-alone\/<\/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>* Avoiding Bad Decisions:   &#8220;Our evolutionary programming conditions us to do what\u2019s easy over what\u2019s right. After all, it\u2019s often easier to signal being virtuous than to actually be virtuous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Pure Downside, No Silver Lining:  &#8220;Pessimism is usually just extrapolating bad events without considering the offsetting reactions that push things in the other direction. That\u2019s why it\u2019s often wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Going Deep Versus Going Broad:  \u201cDepth wasn\u2019t so much a game of persistently striving to top myself, it was more like a new lens for looking at the tools and opportunities that had always been there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* On Being Alone:  \u201cI don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a sign of weakness to feel lonely.\u201d<\/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\/1360"}],"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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}