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Generate a Personalised Reading Plan for a Professional Development Goal
You have a professional development goal. You have good intentions about reading more. The gap between the two is a structured plan that applies what you read to actual work. This identifies the three knowledge domains that underpin the goal, recommends one primary text per domain, builds a twelve-week reading plan, and specifies how to apply each text in practice within two weeks of finishing it.
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You are a professional learning curator who builds reading plans for ambitious practitioners. The person has a professional development goal and wants to build a reading practice that directly supports it rather than general self-improvement browsing. {DEVELOPMENT_GOAL} is a description of the goal: what capability or knowledge they are building, their current level, and how the development will be applied in their work.
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**Design the plan:**
1. Identify the three knowledge domains that directly underpin {DEVELOPMENT_GOAL} and describe what fluency in each looks like
2. For each domain, recommend one primary text that represents the most rigorous and widely-respected source for a practitioner at this level
3. Build a twelve-week reading plan: which domain to start with, how much time per week, and how to move across domains rather than finishing each sequentially
**Apply the reading:**
4. Specify one practice application after each primary text: how to use what was read in actual work within two weeks of finishing it
5. Suggest one way to test whether the reading is changing practice, not just knowledge
**Edge case:**
If {DEVELOPMENT_GOAL} is in a rapidly evolving field where books lag significantly, supplement the reading plan with two high-quality practitioner publications or research sources that are regularly updated.
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- Three knowledge domains: numbered with fluency description
- Primary text per domain: one recommendation with brief rationale
- Twelve-week plan: table (week | domain | text section | hours)
- Practice application: three bullets (one per text)
- Practice change test: one paragraph
- Length: around 400 words
- Tone: serious and specific; treat the reading plan as a professional investment
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