{"id":905,"date":"2020-04-12T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2020-04-12T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:14:31","slug":"im-reading-week-april-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-april-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of April 12th"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/legacymentorofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[pic from our Instagram page]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-907\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IG-at-TIME-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IG-at-TIME-1.png 649w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IG-at-TIME-1-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How Rituals and Focus Can Turn Isolation Into a Time for Growth<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;The response to COVID-19 suggests one answer: care for yourself and others. So take a breath and take the time to change the daily rituals that make up life. Throw yourself into them as if your life were at stake, which it is.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1v1mlTrmyl5gVCToiutnk0o5Z2ZPIQHnD\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE FOR PDF ACCESS<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two Things We Know With High Confidence<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Unknowns exceed knowns even in the best of times. Today, that\u2019s increased exponentially.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/two-things-we-know-with-high-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/two-things-we-know-with-high-confidence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Preparing for the Unknown<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;We\u2019re often advised to excel at one thing. But as the future gets harder to predict, preserving optionality allows us to pivot when the road ahead crumbles.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/03\/preserving-optionality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/03\/preserving-optionality\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Take The Long View<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you\u2019re too close to see the edges of a problem, you lose the sense that there\u2019s anything outside of it, before it, or after it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2020\/04\/take-the-long-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2020\/04\/take-the-long-view\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Time Alone (chosen or not) Can Be A Chance To Hit The Reset Button<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;In a culture fueled by fast-paced lifestyles and convenient technologies, we are easily pulled by our devices and our obsession with productivity. When we are alone, we find ourselves working, and when we have a free moment, we want to catch up with what other people are doing by picking up our phones.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/time-alone-chosen-or-not-can-be-a-chance-to-hit-the-reset-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/time-alone-chosen-or-not-can-be-a-chance-to-hit-the-reset-button<\/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>* Preparing for the Unknown:  &#8220;We\u2019re often advised to excel at one thing. But as the future gets harder to predict, preserving optionality allows us to pivot when the road ahead crumbles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* How Rituals and Focus Can Turn Isolation Into a Time for Growth:  &#8220;The response to COVID-19 suggests one answer: care for yourself and others. So take a breath and take the time to change the daily rituals that make up life. Throw yourself into them as if your life were at stake, which it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Two Things We Know With High Confidence: &#8220;Unknowns exceed knowns even in the best of times. Today, that\u2019s increased exponentially.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Time Alone (chosen or not) Can Be A Chance To Hit The Reset Button:  &#8220;In a culture fueled by fast-paced lifestyles and convenient technologies, we are easily pulled by our devices and our obsession with productivity. When we are alone, we find ourselves working, and when we have a free moment, we want to catch up with what other people are doing by picking up our phones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Take The Long View:  &#8220;If you\u2019re too close to see the edges of a problem, you lose the sense that there\u2019s anything outside of it, before it, or after it.&#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":[639,212,20,183,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}