The thing is, no amount of experience meeting a payroll helps you understand issues that are critically affected by the way things add up at a macro level.

问题是，与你个人工资相关的那些感受实在无助于你对在宏观层面上以整体方式深刻影响着的那些道理进行思考的。

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Mark told me at our first meeting that he believes whichever eight critically endangered species they had chosen back then, the chances are that a quarter would now be extinct.

马克在第一次会面时就告诉我，他相信不管当时他们选择了哪八种濒危野生动物，现在都会有四分之一惨遭灭绝。

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We make snap judgments of people within the first five seconds of meeting them which is why controlling your image is critically important.

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