標題：Why being wrong is good for you

Even the most prolific blunderers can go on to do great things

正文：“Mistakes are the portals of discovery,” wrote James Joyce in “Ulysses”. In 1888 Lee Kum Sheung, a young

cook in a coastal province in southern China, forgot the oyster soup he was boiling on the stove until it simmered down to a thick, sticky gravy. Once he discovered how tasty it was, he decided to sell his “oyster sauce” in jars. That lucky mistake would make him and his heirs rich. According to Forbes, the Lee siblings—his great-grandchildren—are worth $17.7bn, making them the fourth-richest family in Hong Kong.

知識點：portal n.

1. a large, impressive gate or entrance to a building壯觀的大門；豪華的入口

2. a website that is used as a point of entry to the Internet, where information has been collected that will be useful to a person interested in particular kinds of things 門戶網站；入口站點

a business/news/shopping portal商務╱新聞╱購物門戶網站

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