{"id":911,"date":"2020-04-19T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2020-04-19T15:07:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:07:48","slug":"im-reading-week-april-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/im-reading-week-april-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of April 19th"},"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>[pic: My pup Dubya on neighborhood watch]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-912\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_082159_279-1024x1019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_082159_279-1024x1019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_082159_279-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_082159_279-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200414_082159_279-768x764.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why Steve Jobs Stole His Ideas<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Innovative ideas have to come from somewhere. No matter how unique or unprecedented a work seems, dig a little deeper and you will always find that the creator stood on someone else\u2019s shoulders.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/04\/shoulders-of-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/04\/shoulders-of-giants\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Take a Break from Your Mind<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;A small amount of imagination-induced pain goes a long way, however. We don\u2019t need to suffer as much as we do.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2020\/04\/how-to-take-a-break-from-your-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2020\/04\/how-to-take-a-break-from-your-mind\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Non-Ideal Productivity<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a productivity failure to have only 24 hours in the day, and more uses for your time than can ever possibly fulfilled. Instead, productivity failures come from the mismanagement of existing resources: time, energy, motivation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pamelajhobart.com\/blog\/non-ideal-productivity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.pamelajhobart.com\/blog\/non-ideal-productivity<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Polymath Advantage<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Range over mastery \u2014 people who embrace diverse skills, experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/mind-cafe\/the-polymath-advantage-people-who-have-multiple-skills-are-more-likely-to-be-successful-25dfe031ca93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/medium.com\/mind-cafe\/the-polymath-advantage-people-who-have-multiple-skills-are-more-likely-to-be-successful-25dfe031ca93<\/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>* Why Steve Jobs Stole His Ideas  &#8220;Innovative ideas have to come from somewhere. No matter how unique or unprecedented a work seems, dig a little deeper and you will always find that the creator stood on someone else\u2019s shoulders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* How to Take a Break from Your Mind:  &#8220;A small amount of imagination-induced pain goes a long way, however. We don\u2019t need to suffer as much as we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Non-Ideal Productivity:  &#8220;It&#8217;s not a productivity failure to have only 24 hours in the day, and more uses for your time than can ever possibly fulfilled. Instead, productivity failures come from the mismanagement of existing resources: time, energy, motivation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Polymath Advantage:  &#8220;Range over mastery \u2014 people who embrace diverse skills, experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.&#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":[70,23,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}