{"id":453,"date":"2019-03-25T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T20:29:07","slug":"im-reading-week-march-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-march-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of March 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 wp-image-230 size-large\" 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>Why Second Chances Are Important<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>My whole life is a second chance. People need (and usually deserve) second chances because often the first version of themselves they put out into the world is not even close to the finished product they\u2019ll want everyone to see them as.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thereformedbroker.com\/2019\/03\/21\/second-chances-are-important\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thereformedbroker.com\/2019\/03\/21\/second-chances-are-important\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Getting Busy on the Proof<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We tend to equate or at least connect intelligence and rational thinking. However, that does not appear to be the case in actual assessments of intelligence and cognitive bias. Intelligent people can and do believe crazy things. It is highly likely that you and I believe crazy things<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rpseawright.wordpress.com\/2019\/03\/06\/getting-busy-on-the-proof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/rpseawright.wordpress.com\/2019\/03\/06\/getting-busy-on-the-proof\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What The Hell Is Going On?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;A snapshot of our current place in history related to commerce, education, information scarcity and politics.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perell.com\/blog\/what-the-hell-is-going-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.perell.com\/blog\/what-the-hell-is-going-on<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overcoming Your Demons<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Morgan&#8217;s struggle with stuttering and his public-facing career.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/overcoming-your-demons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/overcoming-your-demons\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What Is Amazon?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>An amazingly detailed essay on Amazon, Walmart and retail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zackkanter.com\/2019\/03\/13\/what-is-amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/zackkanter.com\/2019\/03\/13\/what-is-amazon\/<\/a><\/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>* Why Second Chances Are Important:  &#8220;My whole life is a second chance. People need (and usually deserve) second chances because often the first version of themselves they put out into the world is not even close to the finished product they\u2019ll want everyone to see them as.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Overcoming Your Demons: Morgan&#8217;s struggle with stuttering and his public-facing career.<\/p>\n<p>* What Is Amazon? An amazingly detailed essay on Amazon, Walmart and retail.<\/p>\n<p>* Getting Busy on the Proof:  &#8220;We tend to equate or at least connect intelligence and rational thinking. However, intelligent people can and do believe crazy things. It is highly likely that you and I believe crazy things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* What The Hell Is Going On? &#8220;A snapshot of our current place in history related to commerce, education, information scarcity and politics.&#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":[259,257,255,254,258,256,37,260,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}