{"id":674,"date":"2019-10-06T12:21:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2019-10-06T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T19:21:06","slug":"im-reading-week-october-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-october-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of October 7th"},"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=\"aligncenter wp-image-172 size-large\" 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<ul>\n<li><strong>The Surfer\u2019s Secret to Happiness<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If you added up the seconds that a good surfer actually spent riding the waves, it would amount to only the smallest fraction of an entire life. Yet surfers are surfers all the time<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/10\/opinion\/disability-surfers-happiness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/10\/opinion\/disability-surfers-happiness.html<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Letter To My Younger Self<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;You\u2019re going to be part of something else. You\u2019re going to be part of changing the women\u2019s game. Of showing other girls who felt they didn\u2019t belong that they do belong.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/en-us\/articles\/marta-brazil-letter-to-my-younger-self\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/en-us\/articles\/marta-brazil-letter-to-my-younger-self<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Fast Track To A Life Well Lived Is Feeling Grateful<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;At base, emotions are about the future, not the past. From an evolutionary standpoint, feeling pain or pleasure that can\u2019t change anything would be a useless waste of the brain\u2019s efforts. The true benefit of emotions comes from their power to guide decisions about what comes next.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/the-fast-track-to-a-life-well-lived-is-feeling-grateful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/the-fast-track-to-a-life-well-lived-is-feeling-grateful<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why We Can Never Do Just One Thing<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;We can\u2019t expect to interact with any system without repercussions. Over time, even minor externalities can cause significant strain in our lives and relationships.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/09\/externalities-why-we-can-never-do-one-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2019\/09\/externalities-why-we-can-never-do-one-thing\/<\/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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Letter To My Younger Self:  &#8220;You\u2019re going to be part of something else. You\u2019re going to be part of changing the women\u2019s game. Of showing other girls who felt they didn\u2019t belong that they do belong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Why We Can Never Do Just One Thing:  &#8220;We can\u2019t expect to interact with any system without repercussions. Over time, even minor externalities can cause significant strain in our lives and relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Fast Track To A Life Well Lived Is Feeling Grateful:  &#8220;At base, emotions are about the future, not the past. From an evolutionary standpoint, feeling pain or pleasure that can\u2019t change anything would be a useless waste of the brain\u2019s efforts. The true benefit of emotions comes from their power to guide decisions about what comes next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Surfer\u2019s Secret to Happiness:  &#8220;If you added up the seconds that a good surfer actually spent riding the waves, it would amount to only the smallest fraction of an entire life. Yet surfers are surfers all the time.&#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":[510,512,511,20,509,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}