为什么最棒的雇员没有最完美的简历？

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我是一位单身母亲五个孩子中的第四个，我们在纽约布鲁克林一个混乱的街区生活。我们从未拥有过一个家，一辆车，或是一个洗衣机，在我童年的大部分时间，我们甚至没有一部电话。因此我有很强的意愿去理解生意场的成功和“拳击手”的关联，因为我的人生很容易就会发展出不同的结局。我见过成功的商人，也阅读过具备出色领导能力的人的资料，我发现了其中的一些共性。

I'm the fourth of five children raised by a single motherin a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.We never owned a home, a car, a washing machine,and for most of my childhood, we didn't even have a telephone.So I was highly motivatedto understand the relationship between business success and Scrappers,because my life could easily have turned out very differently.As I met successful business peopleand read profiles of high-powered leaders,I noticed some commonality.

他们中的很多人经历过早年的困顿，可能是贫穷，被抛弃，亲人的早逝，也可能是学习障碍，酗酒和暴力。传统的思维认为创伤会导致痛苦，而且还重点强调了失败的结果。但在我研究这些不成功的案例期间，得到的数据却揭示了一个出乎意料的结论：即便是最糟的境遇也能导致成长和转变。一个显著但有悖常理的现象已经被发现了，科学家们称之为“创后成长”。

Many of them had experienced early hardships,anywhere from poverty, abandonment,death of a parent while young,to learning disabilities, alcoholism and violence.The conventional thinking has been that trauma leads to distress,and there's been a lot of focus on the resulting dysfunction.But during studies of dysfunction, data revealed an unexpected insight:that even the worst circumstances can result in growth and transformation.A remarkable and counterintuitive phenomenon has been discovered,which scientists call Post Traumatic Growth.

在一项设计用来衡量逆境对困苦的孩子会产生怎样影响的研究表明，在698位参与测试的孩子，在经历了最艰苦严苛的考验后，他们中的三分之一长大后获得了健康、成功以及丰富的人生。尽管经历了巨大的艰难，但最后还是成功了。有三分之一这么多。

In one study designed to measure the effects of adversityon children at risk,among a subset of 698 childrenwho experienced the most severe and extreme conditions,fully one-third grew up to lead healthy, successful and productive lives.In spite of everything and against tremendous odds, they succeeded.One-third.

看看这份简历。他被亲生父母抛弃，交由他人收养。他没有完成大学学业。他在某段时期频繁跳槽，在印度逗留了一年，不止如此，他还有阅读障碍。你会雇用他吗？他的名字是史蒂夫·乔布斯。

Take this resume.This guy's parents give him up for adoption.He never finishes college.He job-hops quite a bit,goes on a sojourn to India for a year,and to top it off, he has dyslexia.Would you hire this guy?His name is Steve Jobs.

一个对全球最成功企业家群体的研究表明，相当数量的企业家有阅读障碍。在美国，35%的企业家有阅读障碍。值得注意的是——这些企业家中那些经历过创后成长的人，成功后的他们将这样的学习障碍看作是值得经历的困难，这样的困难给予了他们优势，他们因此成为更好的听众，并且更加关注细节。他们在经历逆境前，并没有看到自己的潜力，而因为逆境，他们准确地定位了自己。他们拥抱伤害和困顿，这是他们成为成功企业家的关键要素，他们知道，如果没有这些经历，他们也许没有办法发展出成功者需要具备的勇气和毅力。

In a study of the world's most highly successful entrepreneurs,it turns out a disproportionate number have dyslexia.In the US,35 percent of the entrepreneurs studied had dyslexia.What's remarkable — among those entrepreneurswho experience post traumatic growth,they now view their learning disabilityas a desirable difficulty which provided them an advantagebecause they became better listeners and paid greater attention to detail.They don't think they are who they are in spite of adversity,they know they are who they are because of adversity.They embrace their trauma and hardshipsas key elements of who they've become,and know that without those experiences,they might not have developed the muscle and grit requiredto become successful.