{"id":364,"date":"2018-12-09T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2018-12-09T16:31:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:31:38","slug":"im-reading-week-december-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-december-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of December 8th"},"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 What You Can&#8217;t Buy<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ofdollarsanddata.com\/what-you-cant-buy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ofdollarsanddata.com\/what-you-cant-buy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of the money in the world can\u2019t satisfy your soul. \u00a0\u00a0Wealth can\u2019t satisfy the need to belong to something bigger than yourself. \u00a0As someone who writes about finance every single week, I can tell you that there are some things that money can\u2019t buy. \u00a0Things like character. Things like integrity. Things like beliefs.<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8216;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Happiness and Enjoying Life<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2018\/12\/how-to-enjoy-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2018\/12\/how-to-enjoy-life\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We can easily spend nine-tenths of our lives trying to appreciate the free time, hammocks, bike rides, and coffee breaks to come, or we can spend that time\u2014which amounts to decades\u2014appreciating what is already happening. And there\u2019s nothing subtle about the difference it makes<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Regret<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/youthnow\/what-its-like-to-be-90-something-368780082573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/youthnow\/what-its-like-to-be-90-something-368780082573<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We all have joys, hopes, fears, and longings that never go away no matter how old we get<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Asking Not Telling<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/work\/1472600\/the-life-changing-art-of-asking-instead-of-telling\/?utm_source=Daily+AR&amp;utm_campaign=6a63eaa05f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c08a59015d-6a63eaa05f-144116929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/qz.com\/work\/1472600\/the-life-changing-art-of-asking-instead-of-telling\/?utm_source=Daily+AR&amp;utm_campaign=6a63eaa05f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c08a59015d-6a63eaa05f-144116929<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We put tasks and achievements before relationships, without recognizing the damage it does to our colleagues or families<\/em>. &#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Impostor Syndrome<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/59vdjx\/how-to-deal-with-imposter-syndrome-according-to-experts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/59vdjx\/how-to-deal-with-imposter-syndrome-according-to-experts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>All that separates an imposter from a real person is the willingness to grow. As long as you push your comfort zone a little bit each day, you&#8217;re never an imposter<\/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 Happiness and Enjoying Life:  &#8220;We can easily spend nine-tenths of our lives trying to appreciate the free time, hammocks, bike rides, and coffee breaks to come, or we can spend that time\u2014which amounts to decades\u2014appreciating what is already happening. And there\u2019s nothing subtle about the difference it makes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Regret: &#8220;We all have joys, hopes, fears, and longings that never go away no matter how old we get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Asking Not Telling:  &#8220;We put tasks and achievements before relationships, without recognizing the damage it does to our colleagues or families. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On What You Can&#8217;t Buy: &#8221; All of the money in the world can\u2019t satisfy your soul.   Wealth can\u2019t satisfy the need to belong to something bigger than yourself.  As someone who writes about finance every single week, I can tell you that there are some things that money can\u2019t buy.  Things like character.  Things like integrity.  Things like beliefs. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>* On Impostor Syndrome: &#8220;All that separates an impostor from a real person is the willingness to grow. As long as you push your comfort zone a little bit each day, you&#8217;re never an impostor.&#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":[177,180,178,179,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}