{"id":468,"date":"2019-04-15T14:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:38:34","slug":"im-reading-week-april-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-april-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of April 14th"},"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>The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>People who are on the energetic, motivated, and creative side are both more likely to be entrepreneurial and more likely to have strong emotional states. Those states may include depression, despair, hopelessness, worthlessness, loss of motivation, and suicidal thinking<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/201309\/jessica-bruder\/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.inc.com\/magazine\/201309\/jessica-bruder\/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.html<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why Smart People Fall For Fads<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Two of the three variables are highly relevant to why smart people fall for fads: 1. Our need for control over our lives; 2. Our need for belonging<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.passionparadoxbook.com\/single-post\/2019\/04\/12\/Why-Do-Smart-People-Believe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.passionparadoxbook.com\/single-post\/2019\/04\/12\/Why-Do-Smart-People-Believe<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why Every Detail of Your Craft Matters (PODCAST)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I don\u2019t have a problem catering to individual needs, but if I\u2019m going to do it, then I\u2019ve got to do it my way and just make it better than what the perception would have been<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/dan-kluger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/dan-kluger\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How Experiences Influence How You Think About Risk and Reward<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>People with different experience than us aren\u2019t necessarily smarter.\u00a0Part of why learning through experience isn\u2019t necessarily good or bad is due to the lessons we take away from experience<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/you-have-to-live-it-to-believe-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/you-have-to-live-it-to-believe-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Importance of Knowing Yourself<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Don\u2019t let anyone decide who you are<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ofdollarsanddata.com\/just-one-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ofdollarsanddata.com\/just-one-more\/<\/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>* The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship: &#8220;People who are on the energetic, motivated, and creative side are both more likely to be entrepreneurial and more likely to have strong emotional states. Those states may include depression, despair, hopelessness, worthlessness, loss of motivation, and suicidal thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Importance of Knowing Yourself: &#8220;Don\u2019t let anyone decide who you are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* How Experiences Influence How You Think About Risk and Reward: &#8220;People with different experience than us aren\u2019t necessarily smarter.\u00a0Part of why learning through experience isn\u2019t necessarily good or bad is due to the lessons we take away from experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Why Smart People Fall For Fads: &#8220;Two of the three variables are highly relevant to why smart people fall for fads: 1. Our need for control over our lives; 2. Our need for belonging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Why Every Detail of Your Craft Matters (PODCAST): &#8220;I don\u2019t have a problem catering to individual needs, but if I\u2019m going to do it, then I\u2019ve got to do it my way and just make it better than what the perception would have been.&#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":[277,276,275,272,231,37,274,270,132,273,271,269,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}