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My first grade teacher had this brilliant idea.

我一年級的老師有一個很棒的主意。

She wanted us to experience receiving gifts

but also learning the virtue of complimenting each other.

So she had all of us come to the front of the classroom,

所以她讓我們所有人走到教室前面，

and she bought all of us gifts and stacked them in the corner.

她給我們每個人帶了禮物， 堆在牆角。

"Why don't we just stand here and compliment each other?

「讓我們站在這裡並讚美對方吧。

走上前，領取你的禮物並坐下。」

and every time I heard someone's name called,

每一次我聽到別人被叫到名字，

She was like, "Hey, would anyone say anything nice about these people?"

她說：「嘿，有任何人願意 說一些這些同學的好話嗎？」

"No one? OK, why don't you go get your gift and sit down.

「沒人？好吧。那你們 去領取禮物並坐下吧。

someone might say something nice about you."

可能會有人說一些你的好話。」

you probably know I remember this really well.

你可能會知道我對這件事記憶猶新。

But I don't know who felt worse that day.

She must have realized that she turned a team-building event

她一定意識到了， 她把一個團結合作的活動，

into a public roast for three six-year-olds.

變成了三個 6 歲孩子的尷尬時刻。

You know, when you see people get roasted on TV,

你知道當你在電視上 看到別人尷尬的時候，

and I would die to avoid being in that situation again --

我會以死避免那種情況的發生，

I thought, wow, I know what I want to do now.

我認為，哇， 我現在我知道我想做什麼了。

那個晚上我給我的家人寫了一封信，

I will build the biggest company in the world,

I totally embraced this idea of conquering the world --

我完全接受了這個征服世界的主意，

And I didn't make this up, I did write that letter.

我不是憑空捏造，我真的寫了那封信。

This is also bad handwriting, but I did highlight some key words.

字跡很差， 但是我強調了一些重點詞。

I was presented with the opportunity to come to the United States.

because that was where Bill Gates lived, right?

因為這是比爾蓋茨生活的地方，對嗎？

I thought that was the start of my entrepreneur journey.

我認為這是我企業家生涯的開始。

I was actually a marketing manager for a Fortune 500 company.

我事實上是一個 500 強企業的營銷經理。

Where is that 14-year-old who wrote that letter?

那個寫了那封信的 14 歲的孩子去哪了？

It's because every time I had a new idea,

every time I wanted to try something new,

I wanted to speak up in front of people in a group --

我感覺在 6 歲的我 和 14 歲的我之間

between the 14-year-old and the six-year-old.

然而每次那個 6 歲的我都贏了。

And this fear even persisted after I started my own company.

這個恐懼甚至持續 到我開始自己的公司。

I mean, I started my own company when I was 30 --

我的意思是，我在 30 歲的時候成立我的公司，

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