Covey writes, and I believe, we must allow ourselves to undergo paradigm shifts — to change ourselves fundamentally and not just alter our attitudes and behaviors on the surface level — in order to achieve true change.

Covey’s seven habits of highly effective people are broken down like this:

• Habits 1, 2, and 3 are focused on self-mastery and moving from dependence to independence.

• Habits 4, 5, and 6 are focused on developing teamwork, collaboration, and communication skills, and moving from independence to interdependence.

• Habit 7 is focused on continuous growth and improvement and embodies all the other habits.

Jim Hawkins

荟同学校校长

《安娜·卡列尼娜》

推荐理由：“阅读中最美好的时刻，就是当你遇到一种思想，一种感觉，抑或一种看待事物的方式时，你认为这些东西于你来讲是特殊的、独特的。此时，就是这样，坐在一个人身边，一个你从未见过的人，一个甚至已经离世多年的人。就好像一只手从书中伸出来，握住了你的手。”

我第一次读《安娜 · 卡列尼娜》是在高中最后一年。起初，我被小说的篇幅和封面上印着的一长串复杂的俄罗斯名字吓到了，但很快我就完全沉浸其中。阅读这本书的体会就像本奈特说的那样。我简直不敢相信，一个写于19世纪70年代的故事竟然如此生动，而且以如此个人的方式对我诉说。托尔斯泰通过他的文字和人物描述出我“特殊的、独特的”情感和内心想法，这带给我深深的感动和极大的鼓舞。

安娜和渥伦斯基伯爵的悲剧（这不算严重剧透！）通常是电影制作人关注的情节线，但在我看来，与之平行的爱情故事——列文对基蒂的追求和两人的婚姻是更深刻、更有力量的故事。列文是托尔斯泰依照自己的性格和经历改编而成的人物，他在许多方面而言都是这部伟大小说的中心人物。

《安娜 · 卡列尼娜》是一本需要反复阅读的书。最近我又重新拾起了它。自从第一次阅读以来，我已经度过了自己生命中的几十年，我发现与它重聚是一种快乐，当然，我也比第一次阅读收获更多。对我来说，这部小说足以改变人生，过去如此，未来亦然。（译）

Reasons：Alan Bennett, the British playwright, put it so well:

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.”

I first read Anna Karenina when I was in my last year at high school. At first daunted by the length of the novel, and the long list of complex Russian names printed inside the cover, I soon became totally absorbed. The experience of reading it was as Bennett describes. I could not believe how a story – written in the 1870s – could be so vivid, and speak to me in such a personal way. Having my ‘special and particular’ emotions and inner thoughts described by Tolstoy through his words and characters was deeply moving and affirming.

Anna’s tragic affair with Count Vronsky (not a major spoiler!) tends to be the plotline that the filmmakers focus on, but the parallel love story – the courtship and marriage of Levin and Kitty – is, to my mind, the deeper and even more powerful narrative. Tolstoy based Levin on much of his own personality and personal experience and he is in many respects the central figure in this great novel.

Anna Karenina is a book to be read more than once. Picking it up again recently, having had a few decades of my own life since that first reading, I found it a joy to be reunited with it and, of course, discovered so much more than I had the first time. For me, this novel has been, and continues to be, truly lifechanging.

Julian Jeffrey

惠灵顿（中国）首席总校长

《The Teaching Life: Professional Learning and Career Progression》

推荐理由：我非常喜欢这本书。它讲述了教师应该如何发展自己的职业，并在个人生活和职业生涯上获得更多成就感。这本书中有一个关于国际教学的章节，这一部分的内容非常引人入胜，其中关于如何规划培训和职业发展（从教师自身及学校层面来讲）的部分更是颇有见地。至关重要的是，这本书可以帮助教师在职业生涯中做出明智的决定。最后，它还吸收了来自惠灵顿成员的洞察与见解，本书的作者之一还曾与我在英国惠灵顿公学的历史组共事过。对于任何对教学感兴趣的人来说，这都是一本非常值得推荐的读物。