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I'm the fourth of five children raised by a single mother in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
我是一位單身母親五個孩子中的第四個，我們在紐約布魯克林一個混亂的街區生活。
We never owned a home, a car, a washing machine, and for most of my childhood, we didn't even have a telephone.
我們從未擁有過一個家，一輛車，或是一個洗衣機，在我童年的大部分時間，我們甚至沒有一部電話。
So I was highly motivated to understand the relationship between business success and Scrappers,
因此我有很強的意愿去理解生意場的成功和“拳擊手”的關聯，
because my life could easily have turned out very differently.
因為我的人生很容易就會發展出不同的結局。
As I met successful business people and read profiles of high-powered leaders, I noticed some commonality.
我見過成功的商人，也閱讀過具備出色領導能力的人的資料，我發現了其中的一些共性。
Many of them had experienced early hardships, anywhere from poverty, abandonment,
他們中的很多人經歷過早年的困頓，可能是貧窮，被拋棄，
death of a parent while young, to learning disabilities, alcoholism and violence.
親人的早逝，也可能是學習障礙，酗酒和暴力。
The conventional thinking has been that trauma leads to distress, and there's been a lot of focus on the resulting dysfunction.
傳統的思維認為創傷會導致痛苦，而且還重點強調了失敗的結果。
But during studies of dysfunction, data revealed an unexpected insight:
但在我研究這些不成功的案例期間，得到的數據卻揭示了一個出乎意料的結論：
that even the worst circumstances can result in growth and transformation.
即便是最糟的境遇也能導致成長和轉變。
A remarkable and counterintuitive phenomenon has been discovered, which scientists call Post Traumatic Growth.
一個顯著但有悖常理的現象已經被發現了，科學家們稱之為“創后成長”。
