It wrote itself into my memory, and played across the darkness when I closed my eyes more times than I care to admit, and while I was reading The Space Between Worlds, it resurfaced again, ringing in my ears so clearly. “Have you encountered any others who have truly met themselves?” This line from Camren Maria Machado’s short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties stuck in my mind like a dart the first time I read it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined-and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.more So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.īut trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. She works-and shamelessly flirts-with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying-from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is stil An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. So you can be a better leader, a better community member, a better person as you live and lead with intention.An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. This month, take the time to recognize and take control of that space between the stimulus and response. And that sounds so simple, but the second part of that is not just the name, the first thing that you're thinking about, but really to go further and try to give two or three additional names to that emotion that you're feeling.Īnd what that does is to help you to really drill down, to recognize what's really underneath and what's going on for you. But how do you do this, right? And so the first thing you do is to name your emotions.
So that sounds great because we have these complex situations all the time. But within yourself, you can stay calm and you can choose the right response, a response that is more positive and more productive for the situation at hand. And why do we think it's important and why we're taking the time to talk to you about it, is that by understanding what happens between the stimulus and the response, you can better cope with everything else is going on around you. It's an opportunity in this complex, this difficult situation to choose your emotions and to pivot, right? To move forward, to notice them and shift what's happening for you. It's an opportunity to shift the direction of the conversation or the, shift the energy in the room.Īnd along with this, Susan David talks about this as, as emotional agility. I love that too, that the frame of the power, that the power between the stimulus and the response is, that opportunity, an opportunity to choose, the opportunity to choose your emotions. But taking that time to understand, know what happened between that stimulus and response is really important because that's where you have the power to choose what's next. True, this happens a lot with many of us. Have you ever had the situation where someone says something and you instantly respond? And later on you look back and you think, wow, why did I respond that way?