{"id":354,"date":"2018-11-23T20:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T04:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2018-11-23T20:41:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T04:41:52","slug":"im-reading-week-november-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-november-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of November 24th"},"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-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 Why We Often Remember Bad Memories Rather Than Good<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2018\/11\/01\/why-we-often-remember-bad-better-than-good\/?utm_term=.60decf5c249d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2018\/11\/01\/why-we-often-remember-bad-better-than-good\/?utm_term=.60decf5c249d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Memories are fallible. Long-term memories are nearly always wrong<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On the Importance of Long Term Thinking in a Society Dominated by Instant Gratification<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ofdollarsanddata.com\/great-things-take-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ofdollarsanddata.com\/great-things-take-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The information you consume will likely one day provide you with some benefit, you just don\u2019t know where yet. It just takes time<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>When a Stress Expert Battles Mental Illness<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2279856\/anxiety-cant-be-trained-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2279856\/anxiety-cant-be-trained-away<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It\u2019s hard to reconcile being an &#8216;expert&#8217; on performance and experiencing what I\u2019m experiencing. At times, I feel like a fraud and an impostor, fragile and scared<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Taking Risk and Timing<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blairbellecurve.com\/mine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/blairbellecurve.com\/mine\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Isn\u2019t that what drives us? The desire to acquire more, even if not necessarily more things but more knowledge, more skills, more experiences, more praise, more power<\/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>* On Why We Often Remember Bad Memories Rather Than Good: &#8220;Memories are fallible. Long-term memories are nearly always wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* On the Importance of Long Term Thinking in a Society Dominated by Instant Gratification: &#8220;The information you consume will likely one day provide you with some benefit, you just don\u2019t know where yet. It just takes time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* When a Stress Expert Battles Mental Illness: &#8220;It\u2019s hard to reconcile being an &#8216;expert&#8217; on performance and experiencing what I\u2019m experiencing. At times, I feel like a fraud and an impostor, fragile and scared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Taking Risk and Timing: &#8220;Isn\u2019t that what drives us? The desire to acquire more, even if not necessarily more things but more knowledge, more skills, more experiences, more praise, more power.&#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":[166,165,161,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}