{"id":423,"date":"2019-02-10T18:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2019-02-12T06:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:55:36","slug":"im-reading-week-february-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-february-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of February 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 wp-image-172 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"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-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thinking Around Human Bling Spots<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/platform\/amp\/science-and-health\/2019\/1\/31\/18200497\/dunning-kruger-effect-explained-trump?__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/platform\/amp\/science-and-health\/2019\/1\/31\/18200497\/dunning-kruger-effect-explained-trump?__twitter_impression=true<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We can take some idea and spin a complete and compelling story around it&#8230;and it doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that it&#8217;s right<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How To Maximize Serendipity<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perell.com\/blog\/serendipity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.perell.com\/blog\/serendipity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Serendipity is a state of mind. Serendipity births unexpected opportunities which fuel progress and push us in fruitful directions.&nbsp;Serendipity is a skill, which means it can be learned<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Argument For Spending More Time Outdoors<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/03\/spend-5-percent-day-outside\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/03\/spend-5-percent-day-outside\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We think shopping makes us happy, or streaming Netflix, eating ice cream\u2014and those things do make us happy, but we get a tremendous boost from being outside in a natural.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Defending Your Time<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/want-to-get-more-work-done-in-a-single-day-than-most-people-do-in-a-week-defend-your-time-6836d07ef17c?sk=2f26905dac4184cf293caaa93117a20a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/swlh\/want-to-get-more-work-done-in-a-single-day-than-most-people-do-in-a-week-defend-your-time-6836d07ef17c?sk=2f26905dac4184cf293caaa93117a20a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>One thing at a time doesn\u2019t mean one thing, then another thing, then another thing in quick succession<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For daily inspiration, actionable ideas and knowledge bombs&nbsp;follow my Legacy Mentor feed on Instagram.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post originally appeared at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.damondamore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* How To Maximize Serendipity: &#8220;Serendipity is a state of mind. Serendipity births unexpected opportunities which fuel progress and push us in fruitful directions.\u00a0Serendipity is a skill, which means it can be learned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Defending Your Time: &#8220;One thing at a time doesn\u2019t mean one thing, then another thing, then another thing in quick succession.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Thinking Around Human Bling Spots: &#8220;We can take some idea and spin a complete and compelling story around it&#8230;and it doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that it&#8217;s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Argument For Spending More Time Outdoors: &#8220;We think shopping makes us happy, or streaming Netflix, eating ice cream\u2014and those things do make us happy, but we get a tremendous boost from being outside in a natural.&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"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=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}