最近在读《纳瓦尔宝典》(The Almanack of Naval Ravikant)的时候,第一段是他自述原生家庭,他是单亲家庭,童年也不富裕。但他的口吻特别平常没有抱怨,甚至我发现了一个他的用词,来形容自己的童年自给自足。从英语语言上来说,和情感上,我很喜欢这个词。
“I grew up in a single-parent household with my mom working,going to school, and raising my brother and me as latchkey kids. We were very self-sufficientfrom a very early age. There was a lot of hardship, but everyone goes through hardship. It did help me in a number of ways.”)