出版時(shí)間:2010-9 出版社:清華大學(xué)出版社 作者:克里斯·加德納 頁(yè)數(shù):281
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前言
Whenever I’m asked what exactly it was that helped guide me through my darkest days not only to survive but to move past those circumstances and to ultimately attain a level of success and fulfillment that once sounded impossible, what comes to mind are two events.One of them took place in the early 1980s, when I was twenty-seven years old, on an unusually hot, sunny day in the Bay Area. In the terminally overcrowded parking lot outside of San Francisco General Hospital, just as I exited the building, a flash of the sun’s glare temporarily blocked my vision. As I refocused, what I saw changed the world as I knew it. At any other point in my life it wouldn’t have struck me so powerfully, but there was something about that moment in time and the gorgeous, red convertible Ferrari 308 that I saw slowly circling the lot—driven by a guy obviously in search of a parking spot—that compelled me to go and have a life-changing conversation with him.Some years before, fresh out of the Navy, I had first arrived in San Francisco—lured to the West Coast by a prestigious research job and the opportunity to work for one of the top young heart surgeons in the country. For a kid like me who’d barely stepped foot outside the six-block square of the’hood in Milwaukee—not counting my three-year stint as a Navy medic in North Carolina— San Francisco was the be-all and end-all. The city was the Land of Milk and Honey and the Emerald City of Oz rolled into one. Rising up out of the bay into golden glowing mists of possibility, she seduced me from the start, showing off her studded hills and plunging valleys as she laid herself out with arms open. At night the town was an aphrodisiac—with city lights like rare jewels sparkling down from Nob Hill and Pacific Heights, through the better neighborhoods and along the rougher streets of the Mission and the Tenderloin (my new ’hood), spilling out of the towers of the Financial District and reflecting into the bay by Fisherman’s Wharf and the Marina.
內(nèi)容概要
在這本溫馨、勵(lì)志、令人落淚的自傳中。作者克里斯遭親生父親遺棄,繼父更是脾氣暴虐,克里斯發(fā)誓無(wú)論將來(lái)怎樣,都要認(rèn)真負(fù)責(zé)地?fù)狃B(yǎng)自己的孩子長(zhǎng)大成人。但克里斯所經(jīng)歷的一切艱難坎坷足以讓任何人都意志動(dòng)搖,在最困難時(shí),他和牙牙學(xué)語(yǔ)的兒子無(wú)家可歸,只能將僅有的財(cái)產(chǎn)背在背上,一手提著尿布,一手推著嬰兒車(chē),流浪街頭,甚至寄宿于地鐵站洗手間……但他始終沒(méi)有放棄夢(mèng)想,以幽默及毅力面對(duì)逆境,并憑借過(guò)人的智慧與勤懇的努力,終于迎來(lái)幸福的時(shí)刻——成為一名成功的股票經(jīng)紀(jì)人。
本書(shū)是美國(guó)著名黑人投資專(zhuān)家克里斯·加德納生平的真實(shí)寫(xiě)照,他用生命詮釋了責(zé)任和奮斗以及如何去實(shí)現(xiàn)夢(mèng)想,永不放棄夢(mèng)想,永遠(yuǎn)奮力前行。書(shū)名中“Happyness”的拼寫(xiě)錯(cuò)誤其實(shí)別具匠心,它暗指了書(shū)中一個(gè)非常重要的場(chǎng)景,讀者可親自揭開(kāi)謎底。
作者簡(jiǎn)介
克里斯·加德納(Chris
Gardner),1954年生于威斯康星州密爾沃基市的一個(gè)貧寒之家。高中畢業(yè)后應(yīng)征入伍,成為一名實(shí)習(xí)醫(yī)師。退伍后進(jìn)入加州大學(xué)醫(yī)療中心擔(dān)任助手職位。1976年,他在舊金山一個(gè)醫(yī)學(xué)實(shí)驗(yàn)室擔(dān)任主管,并與他人合著了多篇文章發(fā)表在醫(yī)學(xué)雜志上。一個(gè)偶然的機(jī)會(huì),他
書(shū)籍目錄
Part One
Chapter 1 Candy
Chapter 2 The No-Daddy Blues
Chapter 3 Where's Momma?
Chapter 4 Bitches Brew(side a)
Chapter 5 Bitches Brew(side b)
Part Two
Chapter 6 The World Beyond
Chapter 7 Pictures of a Life
Chapter 8 Turned Out(an intro)
Chapter 9 Turned Out(advanced)
Chapter 10 California Dreamin
Part Three
Chapter 11 Roses in the Ghetto
Chapter 12 Sphere of Influence
EPILOGUE
章節(jié)摘錄
The first person I had told in San Francisco was Dr. Ellis. If I was looking forsomeone to beg me to reconsider, Robert Ellis wasn't that person. Genuinely pleased forme, he went on to loan me the hundred bucks I needed for a suit to get married in, and thenhe shocked me even more by suggesting, "Take an extra day off." For a guy who was asobsessed with work as Buffalo Bob, that was unbeard of. My next stop was the jewelry district on Market Street, where I miraculously found adiamond ring for nine hundred dollars that I bought on credit. It looked old-fashioned, withclusters of little diamonds in a flower shape and a band that tumed out to be white gold. Enroute to Virginia on the airplane, I was so nervous carrying a diamond ring in my pocketthat I had to check on it every five minutes to make sure it hadn't been mysteriously stolenduring that time. It was the nicest thing I'd ever bought for anyone, and I was sure Sherrywas going to like it.
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