Pearls of Wisdom:
* Don't hate
the Heart that hurts you and don't hurt the Heart that loves you.
* Good
friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
* Most people
walk in and out of your life, but only friend's leave footprints in your heart.
* True
friendship "never" ends. Friends are forever.
* People are
lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
* If we are
incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
* The bond
that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each
other's life.
Rarely do members of one family grow up
under the same roof.
* A change of
heart changes everything.
* Our
greatest glory is not in ever falling, but in rising every time we fall.
* You only
live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
* One
generation plants trees, and the next enjoys the shade.
* It is
difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and
impossible to live in the past.
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Analogies
Analogies can
be powerful tools in business communication and training programs. Tips for
using analogies well.
You are reading a fairy tale to a spellbound
preschooler.
Suddenly her face wrinkles and she asks,
“What does betray mean?” What will you say? “To be disloyal to”? “To deceive”?
Neither of these definitions would be any clearer to her than the word in
question.
Finding oneself in this tricky situation ,
you responded with an analogy: “If you told me a very important secret, and I
promised not to tell anyone, and then you heard me telling it to someone and
laughing, you would feel betrayed.”
The analogy worked. Now the child
understood what had happened to the fairy tale character.
It’s
the power of making connections. When definitions don’t clearly define, when
abstract concepts fall with a thud, analogies—similarities from which we can
draw comparisons—can clear things up and help ideas fly.
Analogies make it easier for listeners to hear
hard truths and for readers to grasp abstractions. They help shape theory into
practice.
Analogies can also make training concepts
come alive. Here are two examples:
* In a class on performance appraisal.
To reinforce that supervisors should collect data throughout the performance
period rather than focusing on one recent example of behavior, use this
analogy: “If you could take snapshots throughout the year in every season—or
shoot a video of just one event during the year—which would more accurately
capture the period?”
* In a workshop on how to welcome and
orient new employees. To convey the reason for spending time and energy on
orientation, this analogy works: “You are dreaming that you are running in a
race. In the dream you don’t know the course, you have no idea where the finish
is, you have not trained for the event, and everyone is speeding past you. Is
this a good dream or a bad dream? How is this dream like the reality of new
employees?”
Here are
tips for using analogies well:
1. Choose analogies that are
familiar to your audience. My landscaping analogy would have fallen short
for a group of apartment dwellers or people who are homeless.
2. Use an analogy as a springboard.
Once it has launched a connection, refer to the analogy only sparingly or to
summarize. In the analogy about taking performance “snapshots,” further
comparisons to cameras, photography, etc., would be distracting.
3. Use analogies from your personal
experience. Then if a class participant or a correspondent takes the
analogy further, you can stay with the discussion.
4. Keep analogies short. It
takes no more than 30 seconds to read the analogy that begins this article. If
it were any longer, it might have lost you.
Analogies are powerful tools in business
writing and training. They make it easier for listeners to hear hard truths and
for readers to grasp abstractions. They help shape theory into practice. They
can make real learning happen.
Q1 – Avail Reflexive Not reflexive
Q2 – Wash Reflexive Not reflexive
Q3 – Pride Reflexive Not reflexive
Q4 – Hurt Reflexive Not reflexive
Q5 – Steel Reflexive Not reflexive
Q6 – Cut Reflexive Not reflexive
Q7 – Dress Reflexive Not reflexive
Q8 – Shave Reflexive Not reflexive
Q9 – Shoot Reflexive Not reflexive
Q10 – Behave Reflexive Not reflexive
Five Men in a Cart
Once a
Guru had told his four disciples that
they were never to do anything without his permission.
One day while
they were on their way to a distant town, The Guru fell asleep in the bullock
cart they were travelling in. His head rolled from side to side and suddenly
his turban slipped from his head and fell on to the road. But as their guru had
told them never to do anything without his permission, none of the disciples
made a move to get down and pick it up. When the guru woke up and was told
about the loss of his turban he was furious.
"Next
time anything falls off pick it up at once!" he thundered. Some time later
the bullock dropped its dung and the four foolish disciples leaped down and
picked it up. The Guru was horrified. He made a list of the things that could
fall off from a moving cart. "Pick up any of these things if they
fall," he told them, handing them the list. "Don't pick up anything
that is not mentioned here."
Just then the
cart lurched violently and the Guru was
thrown headlong into a ditch.
Guru yelled
to his disciples to pull him out.
"We
can't, guruji," said his disciples, sadly. "Your name is not on the
list you gave us." Guru pleaded with them to pull him out, but in vain.
"We know
you are testing us, guruji," they told him. "But you can rest assured
that we will never disobey you. You told us not pick up anything that was not
mentioned in your list and we will not do so."
"Give me
the list!" yelled the Guru . They threw him the list and the pen and the
guru hastily scrawled his name on it. Then and then only did the obedient
disciples pull their beloved guru out of the ditch and put him back into the
cart!
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