Are You Born To Be A Billionaire?
你天生是个百万富翁吗？
Fifty-three billion smackers. That's how much telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, the wealthiest human on the planet, is worth by Forbes' latest exhaustive count. (Actually, the tally was $53.5 billion--when you're dealing in 10 digits, every decimal place counts.)
据福布斯最新资产评估，530亿美元，这就是世界首富电信巨头卡洛斯・斯利姆・埃卢的身价。（事实上他的身价是535亿元。当你处理10位数时，每个小数字都很重要。）
Those kinds of numbers can't help but make you think: What exactly does it take to amass that kind of wealth? More important, do you have it?
这些数字禁不住会让你思考：到底是什么让他们能够积累如此的财富，我们有吗？
"People who are very successful have an incredible sense of optimism," says Joan Kane, a Manhattan psychologist who treats many a high-powered executive. "They don't have the sense of limitations that most people have. There's no limit to their capacity to achieve and keep going. Age and family commitments don't deter them."
曼哈顿心理学家Joan Kane，接触过很多高层的执行官。他说：“那些成功人士都有极强的乐观精神，他们没有我们平常人那种自我束缚感。他们不折不扣的去争取并不断前进。年龄和家庭的负担都不能束缚他们。”
Unbounded optimism. Insatiable need to win. These are but two characteristics of the stratospherically wealthy. There are many more.
无限的自信，对胜利的永不满足。这是那些财富巨人的2个特征，当然还有其他的一些特征：
Self-Assessment: Are You Born To Be A Billionaire?
自我评估：你是天生的百万富翁吗？