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P.T. 巴纳姆:奋斗与胜利·补录 552
P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导
“Experience is said to be a hard schoolmaster, but I should be sorry to feel that this great lesson in adversity has not brought forth fruits of some value. I needed the discipline this tribulation has given me, and I really feel, after all, that this, like many other apparent evils, was only a blessing in disguise. Indeed, I may mention that the very clock factory which I built in Bridgeport, for the purpose of bringing hundreds of workmen to that city, has been purchased and quadrupled in size by the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company, and is now filled with intelligent New England mechanics, whose families add two thousand to the population, and who are doing a great work in building up and beautifying that flourishing city. So that the same concern which prostrated me seems destined as a most important agent towards my recuperation. I am certain that the popular sympathy has been with me from the beginning; and this, together with a consciousness of rectitude, is more than an offset to all the vicissitudes to which I have been subjected.
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定位:Additional excerpt 552 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
白话
巴纳姆说,经验是严厉的老师,但他庆幸这场逆境没白费。他需要这次磨练,现在觉得这看似灾祸的事其实是伪装的好事。他举例:自己在布里奇波特建的钟表厂,本为招工人来,后来被惠勒-威尔逊缝纫机公司买下并扩大四倍,现在满是新英格兰技工,他们的家庭给城市添了两千人口,正建设美化这座城。所以拖垮他的那个厂,反而可能帮他恢复。他确信公众一直同情他,加上问心无愧,足以抵消所有波折。核心是:坏事可能埋着转机,关键在事后怎么用。做法是:复盘损失时找出意外收益,把剩余资源转向新用途。
上下文
巴纳姆在自传中总结破产经历,提到他建的钟表厂后来被缝纫机公司收购并壮大。
今日一问
你最近一次失败里,有没有像巴纳姆的钟表厂那样,藏着可以转作他用的资源或机会?
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