I picked up this book because it was listed in a recommended book list from a personal development seminar I recently did called Direct Access.There are some similarities between what I learned in the seminar and what I am learning from reading this book (I'm about halfway through the book now). The Direct Access seminar identified that action is correlated to how things occur to people, and the first law of performance is that how people perform correlates to how situations occur to them.If you think about it, this is a radical notion. Our society is conditioned to look for some kind of psychological assessment for why people do what they do (an "internal to external" explanation for why people do what they do). Looking from the perspective that people's action is correlated to how things occur to them is more of an "external to internal" explanation for why people do what they do. In other words, if something occurs a particular way, my actions will be correlated to that occurring. The power of this is that it gives me an access point to doing something about my (and others') performance because, as I am learning from this book, I can do something about shifting how situations occur to me (but I can't do much about my psychology).One of the other notions that struck me in this book is the explanation for the phenomenon of how the more things change the more they stay the same. It distinguish between changing things in the content versus shifting the context inside of which that content shows up. If the context remains the same and you change the content then that new content will show up in the old context thus reinforcing the old context - hence the more things change the more they stay the same. But if you shift the context (which this book distinguishes how to do) then you can have new possibilities available that weren't possible in the old context.These ideas have already given me new insights and perspectives in my personal relationships. The "is-ness" of the people in my life is beginning to break up. My judgments about people are separating from who the people really are. And my judgments about myself are separating from who I really am.Not only is this book distinguishing that people's performance (action) is correlated to how things occur, but it is giving illustrations (stories), and distinctions, and processes for shifting/altering how things occur so that performance/action is enhanced.I highly recommend this book!Aaron