指尖阅读—你的生涯你做主（二十一）

读书是一种充实人生的艺术。没有书的人生就像空心的竹子一样，空洞无物。书本是人生最大的财富。犹太人让孩子们亲吻涂有蜂蜜的书本，是为了让他们记住：书本是甜的，要让甜蜜充满人生就要读书。读书是一本人生最难得的存折，一点一滴地积累，你会发现自己是世界上最富有的人。

大家好，许久未见，今天我们将继续和大家一起阅读《the start -up of you》。

Usually, however, single assets in isolation don’t have much value. A competitive edge emerges where you combine different skills, experiences, and connections. For example, Joi Ito, a friend and head of the MIT Media Lab, was born in Japan but raised in Michigan. In his mid-twenties he moved back to Japan and set up one of the first commercial Internet service providers there. He also kept developing connections in theUnited States, investing in Silicon Valley start-ups like Flickr and Twitter,establishing the Japanese subsidiary for the early American blogging company Six Apart, and more recently helping to establish Linkedin Japan. Is Joi the only person with start-up experience who does angel investing in the Valley?No. But combining these transpacific, bilingual, tech-industry assets gives hima competitive advantage over other investors and entrepreneurs.

Your asset mix is not fixed. You can strengthen it by investing in yourself – that’s what this book is about. So if you think you lack certain assets that would make you more competitive, don’t use it asan excuse. Start developing them. In the meantime, see how you can turn aweakness into a strength. For example, you may not see inexperience as an asset to highlight, but the flip side of inexperience tends to be energy, enthusiasm,and a willingness to work and hustle in order to learn.

财富来自于我们自身的技能，经历，关系网络的提升，财富没什么神秘的，依照我们的天份，我们大部分人都不会限于贫穷，我们很多时候的困境是因为我们丢失了自我，从而失去了我们赖以发展的金钥匙。只要我们不断把任何可以促成我们成功的因素积累起来，用起来，财富也会获得更轻松。