{"id":447,"date":"2019-03-10T20:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T03:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2019-03-10T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T03:40:33","slug":"im-reading-week-march-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-march-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of March 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>Life Lessons By Daniel\u00a0Kahneman<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/science\/2012\/jul\/08\/this-much-i-know-daniel-kahneman?__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/science\/2012\/jul\/08\/this-much-i-know-daniel-kahneman?__twitter_impression=true<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pure Downside, No Silver Lining<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/pure-downside-no-silver-lining\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/pure-downside-no-silver-lining\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Pessimism is usually just extrapolating bad events without considering the offsetting reactions that push things in the other direction. That\u2019s why it\u2019s often wrong<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How Our Reaction To Failure Influences Future Performance<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceofrunning.com\/2018\/09\/the-blame-game-how-our-reaction-to-failure-influences-future-performance.html?v=7516fd43adaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.scienceofrunning.com\/2018\/09\/the-blame-game-how-our-reaction-to-failure-influences-future-performance.html?v=7516fd43adaa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>As human beings, we are inherently lazy creatures. Couple this with our need to protect our ego, and you get a dangerous combination of a tendency to want to assign blame to recent external items<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Have We Reached Peak Big?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/have-we-reached-peak-big\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/have-we-reached-peak-big\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>No one can know what will happen on the other side of the peak, but eventually we might all in fact be going over the bar backward<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For daily inspiration, actionable ideas and knowledge bombs\u00a0follow my Legacy Mentor feed on Instagram.\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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* How Our Reaction To Failure Influences Future Performance: &#8220;As human beings, we are inherently lazy creatures. Couple this with our need to protect our ego, and you get a dangerous combination of a tendency to want to assign blame to recent external items.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Have We Reached Peak Big?: &#8220;No one can know what will happen on the other side of the peak, but eventually we might all in fact be going over the bar backward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Pure Downside, No Silver Lining: &#8220;Pessimism is usually just extrapolating bad events without considering the offsetting reactions that push things in the other direction. That\u2019s why it\u2019s often wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Life Lessons By Daniel\u00a0Kahneman: &#8220;After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.&#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":[210,244,216,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}