【TED】是一個(gè)會(huì)議的名稱,它是英文technology,entertainment, design三個(gè)單詞的首字母縮寫。它是社會(huì)各界精英交流的盛會(huì),這里有當(dāng)代最杰出的思想家,這里有當(dāng)代最優(yōu)秀的科學(xué)家,這里有迸發(fā)著最閃耀的思想火花,這里孕育著最光輝的夢(mèng)想。 Jessica Jackley Jessica Jackley is the co-founder of , an online community that helps individuals loan small amounts of money, called microloans, to entrepreneurs throughout the world.
In the years following, the other stories I heard about the poor growing up were no more positive. For example, I saw pictures and images frequently of sadness and suffering. I heard about things that were going wrong in the lives of the poor. I heard about disease, I heard about war -- they always seemed to be kind of related. And in general, I got this sort of idea that the poor in the world lived lives that were with suffering and sadness, devastation,hopelessness.
And after a while, I developed what I think many of us do, is this predictable response, where I started to feel bad every time I heard about them. I started to feel guilty for my own relative wealth, because I wasn't doing more, apparently, to make things better. And I even felt a sense of shame because of that. And so naturally, I started to distance myself. I stopped listening to their stories quite as closely as I had before. And I stopped expecting things to really change.