How I learned to read and trade stocks in prison(2)（每日一篇・聆聽）

日期：2025.4.2

節錄自：TED Talk - How I learned to read, and trade stocks, in prison - Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll

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今天我們還是聽昨日挑選的TED Talk～不過是不同的時間段，大家一齊來聽聽～

指引：先按以上的連結指定的錄音內容，今天我們會聆聽4分02秒至3分08秒，你也可以提早開始聽聽，熱身一下～做聆聽練習的時候，不要開字幕，邊看下面的文字，一邊在紙上寫上答案，看看內容播完後自己答對了多少題。有需要的話可以調慢錄音的語速或多聽幾次哦～

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But little did I know I was receiving the greatest gifts I had ever dreamed of: self-worth, knowledge, (1) ________. I was so excited to be reading that I read everything I could get my hands on: candy wrappers, (2) ________, street signs, everything. I was just reading stuff! Just reading stuff.

I was so excited to know how to read and know how to spell. The homey came up, said, "Man, what you eating?" I said, "C-A-N-D-Y, candy." He said, "Let me get some." I said, "N-O. No." It was (3) ________. I mean, I can actually now for the first time in my life read. The feeling that I got from it was (4) ________. And then at 22, feeling myself, feeling (5) ________, I remembered what the OG told me. So I picked up the business section of the newspaper. I wanted to find these rich (6) ________.

So I looked for that glimpse. As I furthered my career in teaching others how to financially manage money and (7) ________, I soon learned that I had to take responsibility for my own actions. True, I grew up in a very complex environment, but I (8) ________ to commit crimes, and I had to own up to that. I had to take responsibility for that, and I did. I was building a (9) ________ that could teach incarcerated men how to manage money through prison employments. Properly managing our lifestyle would provide (10) ________ that we can use to manage money when we reenter society, like the majority of people did who didn't commit crimes.

Then I discovered that according to MarketWatch, over 60 percent of the American population has under 1,000 dollars in (11) ________. Sports Illustrated said that over 60 percent of NBA players and NFL players go broke. (12) ________ of marital problems derive from financial issues. What the h***? You mean to tell me that people worked their whole lives, buying cars, clothes, homes, and material stuff but were living (13) ________? How in the world were members of society going to help incarcerated individuals back into society if they couldn't manage their own stuff? We are screwed. I needed a better plan. This is not going to work out too well.

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答案

1. discipline
2. clothing logos
3. awesome
4. amazing
5. confident
6. white folks
7. invest
8. chose
9. curriculum
10. transferable tools
11. savings
12. 40 percent
13. check to check

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