People and situations often appear perfect from the outside, but everyone has struggles and secrets hidden beneath the surface.

Perception vs. Reality

Rachel's journey shows the danger of self-doubt and the necessity of reclaiming trust in one's instincts, even after mistakes.

The Importance of Trusting Yourself

The book highlights how unresolved trauma and addiction can cloud judgment and complicate relationships.

The Impact of Trauma and Addiction

Abusive and manipulative relationships, like Rachel's with Tom, can severely damage a person’s sense of self-worth and reality.

Toxic Relationships Are Harmful

Despite her struggles, Rachel’s persistence leads her to uncover the truth, demonstrating resilience even in the face of adversity.

The Strength of Determination

"An alcoholic woman becomes entangled in a missing person investigation, uncovering shocking truths about herself and the people she thought she knew."

The #1 New York Times bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year and now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt.   Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple having breakfast on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Don't get bogged down by the seriousness of life; make time for fun, joy, and playfulness.As adults, we often forget the simple joy of living in the moment. Remember that life is finite, so embrace lightness and find ways to enjoy the journey.

Life Isn't Meant to Be So Serious

Life will inevitably throw challenges your way, but you have the power to choose how you respond to them. View challenges as opportunities for growth and redirection. Don't let difficult circumstances define you; instead, focus on finding meaning and learning from them.

Circumstances Don't Define You

Become aware of your thoughts and emotions, and don't let them control you. Many of our thoughts are automatic and influenced by external factors. Practice mindfulness, meditation, and gratitude to cultivate a more positive and calm mindset.

Control Your Mind, or It Will Control You

Accept that you can't please everyone and that's okay. People have different opinions and perspectives. Don't waste your energy trying to win everyone's approval. Focus on being true to yourself and let go of the need for external validation.

You Can't Please Everyone

Authenticity is key to happiness. Don't try to be someone you're not to fit in. Embrace your individuality and express yourself freely. The right people will appreciate you for who you are, and the wrong people will naturally fall away.

Be Yourself

Don't let negative people or circumstances steal your joy. Some people might try to bring you down, but you have the power to protect your inner peace. Stay true to your values, cultivate positivity, and be a source of light for others.

Protect Your Joy

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Remember, training is not what is ultimately important, . . . Performance is.

As reported in the book Transfer of Training, by Mary Broad and John Newstrom (1992, p. ix), "Most of [the] investment in organizational training and development is wasted because most of the knowledge and skills gained in training (well over 80 percent by some estimates) is not fully applied by those employees on the job."

Application Is Critical For Success

In 1970, Joe Harless (Dixon, 1988, pp. 65-68) coined the term "front-end analysis." Use front-end analysis to focus on what people are expected to accomplish on the job versus what they are expected to learn."Solutions to problems are like keys and locks; they don't work if they don't fit. And if solutions aren't the right ones, the problem doesn't get solved."

Start With A Front-end Analysis

Those who work effectively in the future must be able to:<ul><li>Develop collaborative working relationships with key managers and other partners</li><li>Clearly understand the vision and strategies that management is striving to achieve</li><li>Identify the performance required of employees if the organization is to thrive</li><li>Determine the conditions in the work environment that must be modified if needed performance is to take root</li><li>Work with people in and out of management to determine all the interventions required if high performance is to be achieved</li></ul>

Performance Consultant Must Be Able To…

help to identity the specific performance that is required for each group—<ul><li>the decisions they need to make,</li><li>the analyses they need to do</li><li>the actions that must be taken if that performance is to change.</li></ul>Someone in the role of Performance Consultant thinks in terms of what people must DO if business goals are to be achieved. This is different from the traditional training process of focusing on what people must LEARN.

Training Vs. Performance

TRAINER VS PERFORMABCE CONSULTANT ROLES

performance consultants develop four sets of skills and knowledge and utilize these techniques daily<ol><li>Business knowledge </li><li>Knowledge of human performance technology </li><li>Partnering skill</li><li>Consulting skill</li></ol>

4 Areas Of Knowledge And Skill Are Needed To Be Successfull

human performance technology — a systematic approach to analyzing improving and managing performance in the workplace through the use of appropriate and varied interventions. human performance is a function of many influences: feedback, accountability, rewards, or incentives and motivation, etc. PCs operate from the assumption that performance is a function of a system and not of any one element--solutions to performance problems will be systemic in nature and not unidimensional that is training alone will not be the solution.

<ul><li>ake the initiative to meet work with and get the trust of managers and others within the organization.</li><li>Form partnerships with various people in the organization: senior managers, other managers, supervisors thought, leaders, subject matter, experts, customers, and suppliers</li><li>Represent a “one stop shopping“ benefit to their partners and act as a broker in Identifying the Training or performance need and find a way to address it. </li></ul>

Partnering

performance consultant is a role and not a job. It is distinguished from the role of traditional Treanor by its focus on what people must DO rather than on what they must LEARN.

<ol><li>Business needs the goals for a unit department or organization. there are two types: problems which define a gap between what should be occurring operationally and what is actually occurring : and opportunities which focus on a future operational goal.</li><li>Performance needs on the job behavioral requirements of people who are performing a specific job.</li><li>Training needs what people must LEARN if they are to PERFORM successfully</li><li>Work environment needs what systems and processes with the work environment of the performer must be modified if the performance needs are to be achieved</li></ol>

Four kinds of needs

<ol><li>provides guidance in determining what information is important to obtain</li><li>Alerts to missing data in an area for example information about what successful performers do.</li><li>Act as a vehicle for displaying information to management illustrates the inter relationship between business performance training, and the work environment needs.</li></ol>

Performance Relationship Map Purpose

PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP MAP

Mapping The Data— operational Results

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED In America, organizations spend $175 billion in training initiatives and more than $500 billion in human resource solutions every year yet often have little to show for it. One reason is that people “jump to solutions” before they identify the causes of the problem. Performance consultants are effective because they partner with clients to clarify business goals and determine root causes for gaps between desired and current results. Only then are specific solutions agreed upon and implemented. This third edition of the classic book that introduced performance consulting adds a wealth of new material. There are new case examples throughout and four new chapters providing detailed steps for measuring results from performance consulting initiatives on five different levels, including ROI. The book includes a never-before-published Alignment and Measurement Model, allowing you to connect organizational needs and performance consulting initiatives designed to address those needs with the appropriate level of measurement. This remains a profoundly practical book, featuring tools, models, and checklists. It will enable you to make a difference in your organization that is valued, measurable, and sustainable.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other

No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page.

Death is Nature’s remedy for all things

A good opportunity for consideration, surrounded by the advantages of solitude, might influence your destiny to far greater advantage than you influence it for yourself

Repression is the only lasting philosophy

My friend, I will die, perpetuating the system under which I have lived

Better to be a rational creature and accept your natural destiny

You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden

If ever there were love in the world, I love her

I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse

I am like one who died young. All my life might have been

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire

Nothing that we do, is done in vain

So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds

Dust he was and to dust he must return

Desperate games are played for desperate stakes

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age

A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The French Revolution. 'The best story I have written' was Dickens' own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author's unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.

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Alice's journey begins with her curiosity, which leads her down the rabbit hole. The story highlights the importance of being open to exploring the unknown and embracing new experiences.

Curiosity and Exploration

Alice repeatedly questions who she is as she encounters various bizarre characters and situations. This reflects the theme of self-discovery and understanding one's own identity, especially during times of change.

Identity and Self-Discovery

Wonderland operates on its own unique set of rules, often defying conventional logic. This challenges readers to think about the nature of reality and how rules shape our understanding of the world.

The Absurdity of Logic

Alice experiences physical growth and shrinking throughout the story, symbolizing the emotional and intellectual growth that comes with navigating life's challenges and uncertainties.

Growth and Change

The fantastical world of Wonderland celebrates the power of imagination. The story encourages readers to embrace creativity and see the world from different perspectives.

Imagination and Creativity

A curious young girl tumbles into a whimsical world where logic is twisted, identity is questioned, and imagination knows no bounds

Alice can't believe her eyes when a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch dashes by her. She chases after him, down a rabbit hole to a strange land full of exotic creatures, like the Mad Hatter and March Hare, a smiling Cheshire cat, a philosophical caterpillar, and a tempermental croquet-playing queen. Alice can hardly keep track of all the curious characters, let alone herself! Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been adapted to an easier reading level for Stepping Stones, while keeping all the fun, nonsense, and fantastic twists of the original book.

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Mathematics helps us describe, understand, and predict patterns in nature, art, and even human behavior.

Math is a language for patterns

Infinity comes in many sizes and types, such as countable and uncountable infinities, challenging our intuition about what "bigger" means.

Infinity is more than a number

Beyond physical space, dimensions can describe anything with variables, like color or taste, opening up new ways of thinking.

Dimensions can be abstract

Topology focuses on properties of shapes that remain constant through stretching or bending, teaching us to look beyond rigid definitions.

Topology redefines shape

Math is not just about solving problems but creating new ideas and frameworks, much like art or music.

Math models creativity

Math focuses on patterns, relationships, and structures beyond numbers, exploring concepts like shapes, symmetry, and logic, making it a universal language of understanding.

Numbers are not the essence of math

Mathematical symmetry, seen in nature and art, connects balance and aesthetics, highlighting the underlying harmony between the abstract and tangible worlds.

Symmetry explains beauty

Abstraction simplifies problems, revealing universal patterns and solutions. It fosters creativity and cross-disciplinary applications, turning math into a versatile tool for innovation.

The power of abstraction

Math fields like geometry and algebra interweave, demonstrating unity and revealing new insights by applying concepts across disciplines, mirroring the interconnectedness of our world.

Everything is interconnected

Imaginary numbers, rooted in abstraction, enable solutions in engineering and physics, expanding math's scope to tackle previously impossible challenges.

Imaginary numbers solve real problems

Proofs provide timeless certainty, transcending cultures and eras, offering logical clarity and unshakable truths in an ever-changing world.

Mathematical proof is universal truth

Probability challenges instincts, revealing surprising patterns and empowering informed decisions in uncertain situations like forecasting, finance, or medicine.

Probability defies intuition

Game theory analyzes strategic interactions in economics, politics, and biology, offering frameworks for optimizing outcomes in complex, competitive systems.

Game theory models decision-making

Graphs model relationships in social media, transportation, and communication networks, uncovering structures that drive interconnected systems.

Graphs explain networks

Chaos theory finds order in randomness, explaining phenomena like weather and market fluctuations, revealing patterns in complex systems.

Chaos is structured

Math transcends technical skills, inviting curiosity and discovery, showing its relevance to everyday life and universal accessibility.

Math is for everyone

While many associate math exclusively with numbers, the subject is far broader and more profound. Numbers are just one of the tools mathematicians use to explore relationships, patterns, and abstract structures. Mathematics focuses on the "why" behind the numbers—examining connections, logical systems, and symmetries.

'The whizz-kid making maths supercool. . . A brilliant book that takes everything we know (and fear) about maths out of the equation - starting with numbers' The Times 'A cheerful, chatty, and charming trip through the world of mathematics. . . Everyone should read this delightful book' Ian Stewart, author of Do Dice Play God? The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. The three main branches of abstract math - topology, analysis, and algebra - turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. Or at least, they are when our guide is a math prodigy. With forthright wit and warm charm, Milo Beckman upends the conventional approach to mathematics, inviting us to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and the infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and all how all these concepts fit together. Why is there a million dollar prize for counting shapes? Is anything bigger than infinity? And how is the 'truth' of mathematics actually decided? A vivid and wholly original guide to the math that makes the world tick and the planets revolve, Math Without Numbers makes human and understandable the elevated and hypothetical, allowing us to clearly see abstract math for what it is: bizarre, beautiful, and head-scratchingly wonderful.

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Aslan’s willingness to sacrifice himself to save Edmund symbolizes profound bravery and selflessness. This act mirrors the concept of a noble leader who prioritizes the well-being of others over personal safety. The children, especially Lucy and Peter, also demonstrate courage by stepping into roles of leadership in Narnia’s darkest hour. The story encourages readers to embrace challenges and stand up for what is right, even when afraid.

Courage and Sacrifice

The stark contrast between Aslan (representing good) and the White Witch (representing evil) is central to the narrative. The White Witch’s endless winter signifies oppression and despair, while Aslan’s arrival heralds hope and renewal. This theme emphasizes the idea that good ultimately triumphs over evil, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and that each individual’s choices can tip the balance.

Good vs. Evil

Edmund’s betrayal stems from his jealousy and desire for power, manipulated by the Witch’s false promises. His eventual remorse and redemption underline the importance of acknowledging one’s mistakes and seeking forgiveness. Aslan’s sacrifice to redeem Edmund shows unconditional love and the possibility of a fresh start, teaching readers that no one is beyond redemption.

Redemption and Forgiveness

Lucy’s unwavering belief in Narnia, despite initial skepticism from her siblings, demonstrates the importance of faith in what cannot yet be seen or understood. Aslan’s mysterious but profound presence symbolizes the power of trust and belief in higher ideals or forces. The children’s journey reflects the transition from doubt to belief, a theme that resonates with readers facing uncertainty in their own lives.

Faith and Belief

The Pevensie siblings are strongest when they work together. Each sibling brings unique strengths: Peter’s leadership, Susan’s pragmatism, Edmund’s eventual insight, and Lucy’s compassion. Their unity, despite disagreements, is what helps them triumph over the Witch and restore peace to Narnia. This reinforces the importance of collaboration and mutual respect in achieving common goals.

Unity and Teamwork

Four siblings stumble upon a magical wardrobe that leads to a snow-covered land under the grip of an evil witch, where they must join forces with a noble lion to battle darkness, fulfill an ancient prophecy, and restore hope to a broken kingdom.

Now considered a classic, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is C.S. Lewis's second book of The Chronicles of Narnia, which has captured the imaginations of children for several generations.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

My wit’s diseased

Let me be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: how in my words somever she be shent, to give them seals never, my soul, consent

Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear

Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relived or not at all

How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions

Revenge should have no bounds

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; words without thoughts never to heaven go

For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me, it is a prison

Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love

If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, absent thee from felicity awhile and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight, sweet prince

Hamlet

I am too much in the sun

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man

That one may smile and smile and be a villain

Hic et ubique

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

Brevity is the soul of wit

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t

Hamlet, probably composed between 1599 and 1601, takes place in Denmark and tells how Prince Hamlet carries out his revenge on his uncle Claudius who murdered Hamlet's father, the king, and holds the usurped crown as well as nuptials with Gertrude, the mother of Hamlet. The play is vividly traced around insanity (both real and feigned) and the course from deep pain to inordinate anger. It also explores the themes of betrayal, revenge, incest and moral corruption.

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