{"id":1424,"date":"2021-08-09T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2021-08-09T09:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:30:40","slug":"what-im-reading-week-of-august-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/what-im-reading-week-of-august-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of August 8th"},"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=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IG-guy-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IG-guy-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IG-guy-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IG-guy-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IG-guy.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>* How to Think<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Poor thinking has a cost. When it comes to thinking the mind has an optimal way to be operated. When operated correctly you\u2019ll find yourself with plenty of free time. When operated incorrectly, most of your time will be consumed correcting mistakes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2015\/08\/how-to-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2015\/08\/how-to-think\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>How to Get out of Your Own Head<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;The thinking mind has no master plan, just ideas.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2021\/07\/how-to-get-out-of-your-own-head\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2021\/07\/how-to-get-out-of-your-own-head\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Casualties of Perfection<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;There is no perfect species, one adapted to everything at all times. The best any species can do is to be good at some things until the things it\u2019s not good at suddenly matter more.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/inefficient\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/inefficient\/<\/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 rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.damondamore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* How to Get out of Your Own Head:  &#8220;The thinking mind has no master plan, just ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* How to Think:  &#8220;Poor thinking has a cost. When it comes to thinking the mind has an optimal way to be operated. When operated correctly you\u2019ll find yourself with plenty of free time. When operated incorrectly, most of your time will be consumed correcting mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Casualties of Perfection:  &#8220;There is no perfect species, one adapted to everything at all times. The best any species can do is to be good at some things until the things it\u2019s not good at suddenly matter more.&#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\/1424"}],"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=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}