{"id":585,"date":"2019-08-10T17:48:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T00:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2019-08-10T17:48:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T00:48:56","slug":"im-reading-week-august-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-august-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; The Week of August 11th"},"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. (Some I read at the park with my pup&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-586\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ground_hugs_with_Dubs_is_my__meditation_The_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ground_hugs_with_Dubs_is_my__meditation_The_b.jpg 640w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ground_hugs_with_Dubs_is_my__meditation_The_b-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>We&#8217;ve Reached Peak Wellness and Most of It Is Nonsense<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;According to decades of research, wellness is a lifestyle or state of being that goes beyond merely the absence of disease and into the realm of maximizing human potential.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2399826\/wellness-industry-lies-what-really-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2399826\/wellness-industry-lies-what-really-works<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How To See Things As They Are<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;We have a habit of looking at what surrounds us through a self-referential lens. We don\u2019t just see a thing, we see the way that thing fits, or doesn\u2019t fit, into our lives.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2019\/08\/how-to-see-things-as-they-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2019\/08\/how-to-see-things-as-they-are\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why You Should Try Micromastery<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;A micromastery isn\u2019t about spending 10,000 hours becoming an expert at something. Because the skills tackled in a micromastery are often simple and always repeatable, it almost always guarantees a payoff.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elemental.medium.com\/why-you-should-try-micromastery-90b080b3befa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/elemental.medium.com\/why-you-should-try-micromastery-90b080b3befa<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brutal Deconstruction of Self Will Drive Improvement and Success<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m not suggesting becoming something that you are not, but rather understanding completely who you are. It took a while, but I realized that while every toolbox needs a hammer, every problem ain&#8217;t a nail.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/brutal-deconstruction-of-self-will-drive-improvement-and-success-kpkn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/brutal-deconstruction-of-self-will-drive-improvement-and-success-kpkn\/<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* How To See Things As They Are:  &#8220;We have a habit of looking at what surrounds us through a self-referential lens. We don\u2019t just see a thing, we see the way that thing fits, or doesn\u2019t fit, into our lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* We&#8217;ve Reached Peak Wellness and Most of It Is Nonsense:  &#8220;According to decades of research, wellness is a lifestyle or state of being that goes beyond merely the absence of disease and into the realm of maximizing human potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Why You Should Try Micromastery:  &#8220;A micromastery isn\u2019t about spending 10,000 hours becoming an expert at something. Because the skills tackled in a micromastery are often simple and always repeatable, it almost always guarantees a payoff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Brutal Deconstruction of Self Will Drive Improvement and Success:  &#8220;I\u2019m not suggesting becoming something that you are not, but rather understanding completely who you are. It took a while, but I realized that while every toolbox needs a hammer, every problem ain&#8217;t a nail.&#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":[416,188,221,415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}