{"id":294,"date":"2018-09-30T11:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T18:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2018-09-30T11:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T18:54:18","slug":"im-reading-week-september-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-september-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of September 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are some of the most intriguing, thought-provoking and actionable performance-related content pieces I read and watched this week:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/header_extended_2-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/header_extended_2-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/header_extended_2-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/header_extended_2-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/header_extended_2.jpg 1895w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Luck Relative to Hard Work<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamesclear.com\/luck-vs-hard-work\">https:\/\/jamesclear.com\/luck-vs-hard-work\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Absolute success is luck. Relative success is hard work<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Self-Serving Bias<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/encyclopedia\/self-serving-bias\/\">https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/encyclopedia\/self-serving-bias\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all like to believe that our achievements are our own and that our failures are someone else\u2019s fault. But we are almost surely far less skilled than we assume and, even if not, Heisenberg\u2019s uncertainty principle can get the better of us when we least expect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Ideas and Identity<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/awealthofcommonsense.com\/2018\/09\/darwins-golden-rule\/\">https:\/\/awealthofcommonsense.com\/2018\/09\/darwins-golden-rule\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ideas become part of who we are. People get invested in their ideas, especially if they get invested publicly and identify with their ideas<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Why\u00a0an Abundance of Knowledge Doesn\u2019t Necessarily Change People\u2019s Minds<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/awealthofcommonsense.com\/2018\/09\/darwins-golden-rule\/\">https:\/\/awealthofcommonsense.com\/2018\/09\/darwins-golden-rule\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The human brain is, in large part, a machine for winning arguments, a machine for convincing others that its owner is right \u2013 and thus a machine for convincing its owner of the same thing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I also watched the Six-Part series of Bill Moyers interviewing Joseph Campbell. SO MANY gems in there which I will do a separate post on, but my fav quote from episode 1 (streaming on Netflix and on Moyers&#8217; site below) was:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Life is a wonderful, wonderful opera except that it hurts<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/content\/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-hero%E2%80%99s-adventure-audio\/\">https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/content\/ep-1-joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-the-hero%E2%80%99s-adventure-audio\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are some of the most intriguing, thought-provoking and actionable performance-related content pieces I read and watched this week: On Luck Relative to Hard Work https:\/\/jamesclear.com\/luck-vs-hard-work\u00a0 \u201cAbsolute success is luck. Relative success is hard work.\u201d On Self-Serving Bias https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/encyclopedia\/self-serving-bias\/ &#8220;We all like to believe that our achievements are our own and that our failures are &#8230; <a title=\"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of September 29th\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-september-29th\/\" aria-label=\"More on What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of September 29th\">Read more<\/a><\/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":[101,91,103,70,98,92,100,99,105,102,93,96,104,106,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}