{"id":347,"date":"2018-11-09T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2018-11-09T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:58:35","slug":"im-reading-week-november-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-november-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of November 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-229\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Overhead_Books-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Overhead_Books-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Overhead_Books-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Overhead_Books-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Overhead_Books.jpg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How Nostalgia Can Help Us Find Our Meaning in Life\u00a0 (PODCAST)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/podcast-353-nostalgia-benefits-downsides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/podcast-353-nostalgia-benefits-downsides\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Clay takes us deep into the psychology of nostalgia. We begin by discussing what exactly nostalgia is, what it feels like, and what induces nostalgic feelings. Clay then delves into the benefits of nostalgia, such as alleviating depression and loneliness and providing meaning in your life.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Living a Perfectly Imperfect Life<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/wabi-sabi-the-japanese-philosophy-for-a-perfectly-imperfect-life-11563e833dc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/wabi-sabi-the-japanese-philosophy-for-a-perfectly-imperfect-life-11563e833dc0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It\u2019s about being compassionate with yourself as you are, and building on whatever that is\u200a\u2014\u200anot feverishly trying to rebuild yourself in order to pose as something else entirely<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How The Ones We Love Destroy Us (On Veteran Suicide)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/havokjournal.com\/culture\/ones-love-destroy-us-ones-love-save-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/havokjournal.com\/culture\/ones-love-destroy-us-ones-love-save-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have failed many times, over and over again. I have sinned. I have judged. I have caused pain in the lives of my family members and friends. But so is the burden of life. I recognize my sins and mistakes. And I learn from them. &#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Strategy and Execution<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/25iq.com\/2018\/10\/28\/execution-is-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/25iq.com\/2018\/10\/28\/execution-is-everything\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it\u2019s about deliberately choosing to be different. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On The Advantages of Being Underemployed<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/the-advantage-of-being-a-little-bit-underemployed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/the-advantage-of-being-a-little-bit-underemployed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It\u2019s not about working less. It\u2019s the opposite: A lot of knowledge jobs basically never stop, and without structuring time to think and be curious you wind up less efficient during the hours that are devoted to sitting at your desk cranking out work<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Stories That Saved a Prisoner&#8217;s Life<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/library-stories\/the-books-that-saved-my-life-in-prison-d0c5b8f86f34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/library-stories\/the-books-that-saved-my-life-in-prison-d0c5b8f86f34<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I didn\u2019t just live for that library. I lived because of that library. The Patuxent prison library saved me from crushing despair. It saved hundreds of other guys, too<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As always, follow my Legacy Mentor feed on Instagram for daily quotes, book and product reviews, and knowledge bombs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post originally appeared at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.damondamore.com\/\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* How Nostalgia Can Help Us Find Our Meaning in Life\u00a0 (PODCAST):  What exactly nostalgia is, what it feels like, and what induces nostalgic feelings<\/p>\n<p>* On Living a Perfectly Imperfect Life:  &#8220;It\u2019s about being compassionate with yourself as you are, and building on whatever that is\u200a\u2014\u200anot feverishly trying to rebuild yourself in order to pose as something else entirely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Strategy and Execution: \u201cStrategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it\u2019s about deliberately choosing to be different. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* On The Advantages of Being Underemployed: &#8220;It&#8217;s not about working less &#8211; it&#8217;s the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Stories That Saved a Prisoner&#8217;s Life:  &#8220;I didn\u2019t just live for that library. I lived because of that library. The Patuxent prison library saved me from crushing despair. It saved hundreds of other guys, too.&#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":[160,158,161,163,20,157,156,162,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}