【推荐3】One day a man was asked to paint a boat by the owner of the boat. He brought with him paint and ________ and began to paint the boat bright red, as the owner asked him. While painting, he ________ there was a hole in the boat and decided to repair it. When he finished painting, he received his ________ and left.

The next day, the owner of the boat came to the painter and ________ him with a nice check, much higher than the payment for painting, the painter was ________.“You've already paid me for painting the boat！”he said.

“But this is not for the paint ________. It's for having repaired the hole in the boat.”

“But it was such a(n) ________ service. Certainly it's not worth paying me such a high amount for something so unimportant！”

“My dear friend, you do not ________. Now let me tell you what happened. When I asked you to paint the boat, I ________ to mention about the hole. When the boat dried, my kids took the boat and ________ a fishing trip. They did not know that there was a hole in the boat. I was not at home at that time. When I returned and noticed they had taken the boat, I was ________ because I remembered that the boat had a hole. Imagine my ________ and joy when I saw them returning from fishing.

“Then, I ________ the boat and found that you had repaired the hole！You see, now, what you did？You ________   my children！I do not have enough money to pay your ‘small’ good deed.”

So, no matter who, when or how, just ________ repair all the “leaks” you find.

【推荐2】True leadership is not just the ability to identify the talent and skill of the polished individuals around you. It involves being able to dig beneath the surface and discover ________.

Once there was a boy who constantly sat and talked in his math class, and seemed ________ in group activities. Most teachers would ________ think of him as a problem student.

However, Anna was different. She believed the student was above________ in other areas so she created a strategy to find out.

Anna didn't contact the parents. Instead she organized a handful of activities in the class to get more information. In place of calling out for volunteers in class she created a ________ for each Friday: Girls vs. Boys.

The first week the class was totally _________ Everyone wanted to win. Even the boy had his hand up the whole time trying to get a turn._________, Anna waited, and waited, and waited. Finally the wise teacher paired the boy with the most ________ girl student in class.

Now the two teams had a________ score, all the students sat back eager to see the result. As the teacher placed the question on the board, most of the students began to shake their heads: this was a question they had never ________ in class.

"________!" the teacher yelled. Both students started doing it slowly, thinking of how to solve the complex question. Their classmates, full of ________, exclaimed, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" The boy finished it just seconds before the girl and spun around with his ________ raised, "I won!" Almost nobody could believe the student they admired failed until Anna ________ the result.

This was what Anna tried to get, it turned out that the student wasn't bad, he was bored. So we can see that ________ hidden abilities is not always easy but the end results can be magical. Try your hand at this quality of leadership now and report your results.

【推荐3】A couple of weeks ago, when we were leaving one of those horrible giant trampoline bouncy（弹跳床）places, my 11-year-old daughter said to me, “I don’t think I’m very _______. You know, like Rocket (her brother). He seems to be really good at sports.”

What came out of my mouth _______ me: “No, you’re kind of not.”

Okay, let me back up. As you may have guessed, this child has been with me for about 11 years, _______ I’ve had enough time to _______ her engaged in physical acts: jumping, climbing, running, and organized sports.

And the kid is just _______ me: two left feet. If anybody was ever NOT a “natural” _______, that person is me.

But even _______ these facts, my first instinct（本能反应）was to snow her with some _______: “Oh, no, honey. You’re good at sports! You just have to keep _______!” But I decided to tell her the ________, and I could see it hurt a bit.

So I said more: “Ava, we all have things we are particularly, ________ good at. Like you and ________. You’re in the 5^th grade and read Charles Dickens. That isn’t ________, but you’ve done it without even trying. But all of us also have things that we are ________ in. If we want to get good at those things, we have to put in twice the ________ of the people around us to get to a decent（相当的）point and even harder if we want to be ________.”

She was nodding. She totally ________ it. Why? Because it’s the truth. Sometimes I wonder why we run around talking nonsense（胡扯）to our kids when they can ________ the truth. And they can smell rubbish from a mile away. In other words, they can easily recognize you are ________. In addition, if they don’t know where they ________ now, they’ll never know how to get somewhere new.