96年，在我跟另一位網友的生日聚會上，有一位網友送了我這本英文書：“All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”。

“All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”，意思是說，以後該知道的、該學會的，很多人生的大道理，其實我們在幼稚園都學會了。
作者說：
These are the things I learned:

• Share Everything.
• Play fair.
• Don’t hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your own mess.
• Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
• Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a Balanced life- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Sytrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup- they all die. So do we.
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned- the biggest word of all — LOOK.

在“CEO要你知道的事”一書的序言，也有此書的介紹：

一本談論生活體驗的人生書──All I Really Need to Know, I learned in Kindergarten。這也是提醒世間人，滾滾紅塵，何不回到純真的童年（Back to Childhood，B to C），回想爸爸媽媽或是幼稚園小學的老師教導我們人生基本的道理，
例如：
不可以拿別人的東西（尊重財產權、隱私權、智財權）、
分享時刻（溝通、互動、簡報）、
撞到別人要說「對不起」（處理衝突、給人麻煩）、
「馬路如虎口，過馬路要牽手」（面對危險時要互助合作）等等。
我們不必太擔憂新科技、新人類、新經濟會導致我們無法適應新的挑戰，其實我們在小時候和在路邊攤學到的基本功夫，只要能學好它、活用它、昇華它，雖不中亦不遠矣。為人處世的基本面和企業經營的基本面相似，都是在提醒我們簡單就是美，回到原點，根基打好，就能夠不斷茁壯，迎向變化與挑戰。

寫這篇文，是希望提醒自己不要忘記在幼稚園已經學會的事。
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