{"id":382,"date":"2018-12-27T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2018-12-27T17:31:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T01:31:59","slug":"end-year-post-im-reading-week-december-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/end-year-post-im-reading-week-december-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Year Post &#8211; What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of December 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for reading along as I have navigated the launch of this weekly newsletter.\u00a0 The feedback has been amazing &#8211; folks from all walks of life &#8211; not just business or tech or personal development &#8211; who write to tell me the value they are extracting from the resources I&#8217;m sharing.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to continuing to serve you more valuable and unique content.\u00a0 Also, I plan on getting back to more traditional blogging in the new year so be on the lookout for some fresh perspectives from where I stand.<\/p>\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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>My Favorite Year-End Lessons Learned Post<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thereformedbroker.com\/2018\/12\/21\/my-big-lessons-from-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thereformedbroker.com\/2018\/12\/21\/my-big-lessons-from-2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>These are the major things I\u2019ve learned this year, in no particular order\u2026<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Cultivating and Sustaining Love<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/love-is-an-ongoing-practice-46412a2d68ba?sk=566d6fca60fbb7a9db9ac1421acde479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-growth\/love-is-an-ongoing-practice-46412a2d68ba?sk=566d6fca60fbb7a9db9ac1421acde479<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Love is losing yourself in the process of caring about and showing undivided attention to someone or something, through ups and downs. It\u2019s as simple and as hard as that.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Planning For The Ups and Downs of Happiness<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abnormalreturns.com\/2017\/12\/19\/disappointed-and-pessimistic-planning-for-lifes-happiness-trough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/abnormalreturns.com\/2017\/12\/19\/disappointed-and-pessimistic-planning-for-lifes-happiness-trough\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>There are time when all the lies you have told yourself about yourself just fall away<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Attention Being A Valuable Resource<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakperformancebook.net\/single-post\/2018\/10\/10\/You-Are-What-You-Pay-Attention-To\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.peakperformancebook.net\/single-post\/2018\/10\/10\/You-Are-What-You-Pay-Attention-To<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>In many ways, we are what we pay attention to. The things that we work on also work on us. Everything we take in has an effect on the taker-inner, on us. Our attention is perhaps the most precious resource there is. We need to use it as skillfully as we can<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Fake Versus Real Toughness<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakperformancebook.net\/single-post\/2018\/10\/03\/Youarewhatyoupayattentionto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.peakperformancebook.net\/single-post\/2018\/10\/03\/Youarewhatyoupayattentionto<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The strongest people we know\u200a\u200atend to be caring, considerate, and calm. The people we know who want to be strong and tough\u200a\u2014\u200abut who are not\u200a\u2014\u200atend to be loud, defensive, and overly proud.<\/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<p>Some of the most popular reading notes this year:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-sept-10-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-sept-10-2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-december-15th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-december-15th\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-september-29th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-september-29th\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* My Favorite Year-End Lessons Learned Post: &#8220;These are the major things I\u2019ve learned this year, in no particular order\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Cultivating and Sustaining Love: &#8220;Love is losing yourself in the process of caring about and showing undivided attention to someone or something, through ups and downs. It\u2019s as simple and as hard as that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Planning For The Ups and Downs of Happiness:  &#8220;There are time when all the lies you have told yourself about yourself just fall away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Attention Being A Valuable Resource: &#8220;In many ways, we are what we pay attention to. The things that we work on also work on us. Everything we take in has an effect on the taker-inner, on us. Our attention is perhaps the most precious resource there is. We need to use it as skillfully as we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Fake Versus Real Toughness: &#8220;The strongest people we know\u200a\u200atend to be caring, considerate, and calm. The people we know who want to be strong and tough\u200a\u2014\u200abut who are not\u200a\u2014\u200atend to be loud, defensive, and overly proud.&#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":[194,198,19,193,75,190,49,37,201,181,196,200,192,191,195,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}