一天，在書上看到一道選擇題，覺得很有意思，便把它帶到單位，讓同事做出選擇：

一、今天一次性給你100萬元。

二、今天給你1元，連續30天每天都給你前一天2倍的錢。

　　你會選哪一個？結果所有的同事都選擇了一。

　　然而，選擇一的，只能得到100萬元。而如果選擇二，卻能在第30天得到5億多元！當我把這個結果說出來時，同事們都不敢相信：第一天僅有1元，每天也只是比前一天增加一倍，怎么到了第30天就積蓄到5億多元呢？一些固執者甚至運用中學所學的數學知識來進行驗證，結果果然如此。

　　Experience Life 體驗生活

　　I have known want and struggle and anxiety and despair. I have always had to work beyond the limits of my strength. As I look back upon my life, I see it as a battlefield strewn with the wrecks of dead dreams and broken hopes and shattered illusions--a battle in which I always fought with the odds tremendously against me, and which has left me scarred and bruised and maimed and old before my time.

　　Yet, I have no pity for myself; no tears to shed over the past and gone sorrows; no envy for the women who have been spared all I have gone through. For I have lived.They only existed.

　　I have drunk the cup of life down to its very dregs. They have only sipped the bubbles on top of it. I know things they will never know. I see things to which they are blind.

　　It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

　　I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dreading the morrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us. I put that dread from me because experience has taught me that when the time comes that I so fear, the strength and wisdom to meet it will be given me. Little annoyances no longer have the power to affect me. After you have seen your whole edifice of happiness topple and crash in ruins about you, it never matters to you again that a servant forgets to put the doilies under the finger bowls, or the cook spills the soup.