During the shutdown, I had extra time to read.

在封城期間，我有了更多額外的閱讀時間。

Here are five books that I highly recommend.

以下是五本我推薦的書。

The Choice by Dr. Edith Eger.

伊蒂特．伊格所寫的《抉擇》。

It's a hell of a story.

這個故事非常精彩。

The woman was a 16-year-old girl in Auschwitz.

這位女士十六歲時被關在奧許維茲集中營。

She eventually does survive and gets out and moves to Texas and becomes this inspirational therapist.

她最終倖存了，逃出集中營並移居美國德州，後來成為了鼓舞人心的心理治療師。

And half the book is her story, half of it's how she helps other people.

這本書有一半是她自己的故事，有一半是描述她如何幫助他人。

When somebody traumatizes you, the way you think about yourself, and your happiness, and how you relate to the world...

當你個人、你的自我感知、你的快樂以及你和世界的聯繫受到重創時...

You can't control being a victim, but you can control your victimhood.

隨然身為被害者是無法控制的，但是你可以控制自己的受害者心態。

It's kind of a hopeful story but it's a very tough story.

這是個充滿希望的故事，但是也非常殘忍不幸。

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

大衛．米契爾的《雲圖》。

It's such an unusual book, and it's clever.

這本書非常不尋常，而且非常巧妙。

You go through six different epochs in history where you have people making moral choices, where you see how self-centered and bad people can be and how supportive and good people can be.

走過歷史上六個不同的紀元，人們做出各種道德決定，從中看出人類可以多自我中心和惡劣，以及人類可以多鼓勵支持與善良。

You really do feel he captures these different worlds.

在閱讀時真的可以感受到作者生動刻畫了這幾個截然不同的世界。

It's a grand story about human nature, enduring human values.

這個故事的格局相當大，探討了人性以及歷久不衰的人類價值。

The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger.

鮑伯．伊格爾的《畢生之旅》。

It's hard to overstate how demoralized and messed up Disney was.

說迪士尼過去有多麼灰頭土臉、垂頭喪氣都不為過。

Things weren't in great shape when they got rid of Eisner.

當迪士尼擺脫前任執行長麥可．艾斯納時，局面不太樂觀。

I do consider it brilliant of Iger, that in an age where networks are not important and you're going to have to go direct to consumer that you've got to have a critical mass of the greatest content.

我真的認為伊格爾非常出色，在網路還不重要、必須直接面對消費者的時代裡，一定要擁有關鍵大量的頂尖創意內容。

He did a really good job of explaining what the job of the CEO is.

他將執行長的工作解釋得非常好。

The Great Influenza by John Barry.

約翰．巴瑞所寫的《大流感》。

He explains how infections work and how the immune system works.

他在書中解釋疾病的傳染方式以及免疫系統的運作方式。

The 1918 Spanish Flu is the first world epidemic where it basically hits the entire world at the same time.

西元 1918 的西班牙流感是史上第一同時衝擊全世界的傳染疾病。

The world was faced with this challenge.

全世界面臨這項挑戰。

They tried to come up with drugs or therapeutics.

人們試著做出解藥或療法。

None of those efforts were successful.

但是所有努力都沒有成功。

Distancing and masks and seeing who's coughing, that was all they had.

保持距離、戴口罩還有注意咳嗽的人，他們當時只能做這些。

If you read this, you will understand a lot.

閱讀這本書的話，你就會學到很多。

Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.

阿比吉特．班納吉和艾絲特．杜芙若合著的《Good Economics for Hard Times》。

This is the most important book of the group because it really is about what do we know in the field of economics that can take the current divisions and try and do better.

這是今天介紹的書當中最重要的一本，因為它確實探討了我們所知的經濟學如何能解決現有的分歧並且試著進步。

It's global but it's mostly about the U.S.

雖然是關於全球議題，但是主要是描述美國。

But it's addressing the big issues of the day about people in depressed areas.

不過這本書陳述了經濟蕭條地區的人們現今面對的重大問題。

How can we be so rich and so many people feel a lack of purpose?

為什麼我們這麼有錢，很多人還是覺得缺乏目標？

Why aren't we better with economic knowledge of creating more opportunities?

為什麼我們沒有更了解能創造更多機會的經濟知識？

If you want to solve these problems, there's a lot still to learn.

如果你想解決這些問題，還有許多需要學習。

I found all these books really interesting, and I hope you do also.

我認為這些書都十分有趣，我希望你們也是如此。