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All right, have a great day, have a great week, have a great month and I’ll see you againsoon, bye-bye.www.EffortlessEnglishClub.com
Hidden Curriculum VIP – Point of ViewHello this is A.J. Welcome to the point-of-view stories, our grammar practice stories, forthis month’s VIP Lesson. Let’s get started. Same story, different versions.Now the first is going to be happening now, as if we’re with Carol as its happening.* * * * *So, Carol has always been a good girl. Most of her life she has been a good girl. Duringmost of that time period, she has been a good girl. In fact, in school she always gotstraight A’s.However, one day she goes to work and, see, she had always been a good employeetoo and followed the rules all the time, but her boss calls her and talks to her and herboss says “Carol, I’m sorry. You are good, but you’re unremarkable and so we have tocut costs and we have to let you go.”That’s right, she gets laid off. Carol gets laid off from her job and because of that, ofcourse, she has no money and no job, but that’s not the worst thing that happens to her.The worst thing is that she feels like a huge failure.Remember, she had always been a good girl. She had always gotten straight A’s. Shehad always followed the rules. She thought that meant she would always be successful,but it didn’t. So, of course, she cries and she cries after getting laid off. She cries andshe cries and she goes home and cries some more. She cries and cries and cries fordays and weeks and months and she beats herself up.She beats herself up by saying lots of bad, critical things to herself. She says “Oh, I amso stupid. Oh, I’m a failure. Oh, something’s wrong with me.” And she feels a lot of selfpity. She feels sorry for herself. She says “Poor me. Poor me.” Well, she bests herselfup and she pities herself for 27 long months. Cries and cries and cries every single day.So, finally, one day she gets out of the house and she goes to a bookstore and as she’sbrowsing through the bookstore looking through the books, she sees one that stand out.She notices it. The title is Linchpin and the author is Seth Godin. Well, it looks veryinteresting, so she buys it and she reads it and the book is very different than anythingshe has read before.You see, the book is all about breaking the rules, about how to be irreplaceable andremarkable and it tells her to do the opposite of everything she used to do. Instead ofbeing normal, it tells her to be abnormal. Instead of following the rules like a good girl allthe time, it tells her to break the rules, intelligently, in order to be excellent, remarkable,www.EffortlessEnglishClub.com
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