{"id":523,"date":"2019-06-09T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T04:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2019-06-09T21:32:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T04:32:39","slug":"im-reading-week-june-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-june-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of June 9th"},"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<ul>\n<li><strong>The Dangers Of Comparing Yourself To Others<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>You can be anything but you can\u2019t be everything. When we compare ourselves to others, we\u2019re often comparing their best features against our average ones<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/06\/comparing-yourself-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/06\/comparing-yourself-others\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>People Don&#8217;t Actually Know Themselves Very Well<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>People know themselves best on the traits that are tough to observe and easy to admit<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/people-don-t-actually-know-themselves-very-well\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/people-don-t-actually-know-themselves-very-well<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Peculiar Blindness of Experts<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/06\/how-to-predict-the-future\/588040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/06\/how-to-predict-the-future\/588040\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why Bad Things Happen to Good Decisions<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We want to deserve success. The problem is the world doesn\u2019t always comply with our wishes. Following a good process can lead to a bad outcome because of uncertainty<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2012\/10\/bad-things-good-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2012\/10\/bad-things-good-decisions\/<\/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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.damondamore.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/books-1024x682.jpg 1024w, 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.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Why Bad Things Happen to Good Decisions:  &#8220;We want to deserve success. The problem is the world doesn\u2019t always comply with our wishes. Following a good process can lead to a bad outcome because of uncertainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Peculiar Blindness of Experts:  &#8220;Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* People Don&#8217;t Actually Know Themselves Very Well:  &#8220;People know themselves best on the traits that are tough to observe and easy to admit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Dangers Of Comparing Yourself To Others:  &#8220;You can be anything but you can\u2019t be everything. When we compare ourselves to others, we\u2019re often comparing their best features against our average ones.&#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":[354,75,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}