{"id":937,"date":"2020-05-03T14:18:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T21:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2020-05-03T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T21:19:47","slug":"what_im_reading_may_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/what_im_reading_may_3\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; Week of May 3rd"},"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: Inspiration from our Instagram Page<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-938\" src=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IG-jordan-sufffer-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IG-jordan-sufffer-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IG-jordan-sufffer-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IG-jordan-sufffer-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IG-jordan-sufffer.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why We Worry<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Coming to grips with our lack of control can be frightening. But focusing on the present is extremely powerful.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesslabs.com\/why-we-worry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/nesslabs.com\/why-we-worry<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Get Out of a Rut in About 20 Minutes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;It doesn\u2019t solve your problems, but dissolves any sense of being bogged down by unexamined concerns, precisely because you have just examined your concerns.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2020\/04\/how-to-get-out-of-a-rut-in-about-20-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.raptitude.com\/2020\/04\/how-to-get-out-of-a-rut-in-about-20-minutes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why We Focus on Trivial Things<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Why is having a clear purpose so critical? Because you use it as the lens to filter all other decisions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/04\/bikeshed-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fs.blog\/2020\/04\/bikeshed-effect\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>History is Only Interesting Because Nothing is Inevitable<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Nothing that\u2019s happened had to happen, or must happen again. That\u2019s why historians aren\u2019t prophets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/history-is-only-interesting-because-nothing-is-inevitable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/history-is-only-interesting-because-nothing-is-inevitable\/<\/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 We Worry:   &#8220;Coming to grips with our lack of control can be frightening. But focusing on the present is extremely powerful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* How to Get Out of a Rut in About 20 Minutes:  &#8220;It doesn\u2019t solve your problems, but dissolves any sense of being bogged down by unexamined concerns, precisely because you have just examined your concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Why We Focus on Trivial Things:  &#8220;Why is having a clear purpose so critical? Because you use it as the lens to filter all other decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* History is Only Interesting Because Nothing is Inevitable:  &#8220;Nothing that\u2019s happened had to happen, or must happen again. That\u2019s why historians aren\u2019t prophets.&#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":[647,648,577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937"}],"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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damondamore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}