{"id":488,"date":"2019-05-05T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2019-05-05T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T01:08:00","slug":"im-reading-week-may-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-may-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of May 5th"},"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 Lies We Tell<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We make up stories in our minds and then against all evidence, defend them tooth and nail. Understanding why we do this is the key to discovering truth and making wiser decisions<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/04\/lies-we-tell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/04\/lies-we-tell\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Useful and Overlooked Skills<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The ability to recognize that your wins might not signal that you did anything right in the same way your losses might not signal you did anything wrong is vital to learning something valuable from real-world feedback<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/useful-and-overlooked-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/useful-and-overlooked-skills\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On Being Alone<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a sign of weakness to feel lonely<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/i-thought-i-was-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/i-thought-i-was-alone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Truth About Burnout<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>When we are obsessively passionate, we are constantly striving for things that are outside of our control. When it&#8217;s not firmly grounded in a strong foundation, striving leads to craving, and craving leads to suffering.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.passionparadoxbook.com\/single-post\/2019\/03\/28\/Burnout-Runs-Deeper-Than-Too-Much-Work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.passionparadoxbook.com\/single-post\/2019\/03\/28\/Burnout-Runs-Deeper-Than-Too-Much-Work<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Time Management Through a New Lens<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Productivity Isn\u2019t About Time Management. It\u2019s About Attention Management.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/28\/smarter-living\/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html#click=https:\/\/t.co\/hjUE4giX5P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/28\/smarter-living\/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html#click=https:\/\/t.co\/hjUE4giX5P<\/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 noreferrer\">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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DD-BW2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DD-BW2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DD-BW2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DD-BW2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DD-BW2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* The Truth About Burnout: &#8220;When we are obsessively passionate, we are constantly striving for things that are outside of our control. When it&#8217;s not firmly grounded in a strong foundation, striving leads to craving, and craving leads to suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Time Management Through a New Lens: &#8220;Productivity Isn\u2019t About Time Management. It\u2019s About Attention Management.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Useful and Overlooked Skills: &#8220;The ability to recognize that your wins might not signal that you did anything right in the same way your losses might not signal you did anything wrong is vital to learning something valuable from real-world feedback.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Lies We Tell: &#8220;We make up stories in our minds and then against all evidence, defend them tooth and nail. Understanding why we do this is the key to discovering truth and making wiser decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* On Being Alone: &#8220;I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a sign of weakness to feel lonely.&#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":[316,315,317,311,313,22,9,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}