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盖茨父子最佳建议 　　某次,一位蜂蜜来信问小编能否刊登几篇关于比尔?盖茨的文章。嘿嘿,小编这就为你奉上咯,还附赠盖茨爸爸!大家都想知道盖茨是如何成为世界首富的吧?也许正是因为他从小就被“命令”多尝试自己不擅长的事情,才让他知道什么是自己的看家本领――事实证明,不光要听妈妈的话,爸爸的话也要认真聆听哦! 　　 　　It’s certainly a unique father-son relationship. The man who created one of the largest fortunes in history, 　　now in his second career as a philanthropist[慈善家], has his dad working for him as co-chair of the world’s 　　largest charitable organization ? the $27.5 billion Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. Actually, this is a second act for both men. Bill Gates, 53, stepped down from day-to-day work at Microsoft last June, while his father, 　　Bill Gates Sr., 83, retired from the prominent[杰出的] 　　Seattle law firm Preston Gates Ellis (now known as KL Gates), in 1998. These days both men give counsel[建议] to each other, but for years, of course, Dad doled out[少量地发放] indispensable[不可或缺的] advice to his son. 　　Here is my interview with the pair. 　　Serwer: Bill, I’d like to ask you about the best advice that you’ve ever gotten from your dad. 　　Bill Gates: Well, my dad and my mom were great at encouraging me as a kid to do things that I wasn’t good at, to go out for a lot of different sports like swimming, 　　football, soccer, and I didn’t know why. At the time I thought it was kind of pointless, but it ended up really exposing me to leadership opportunities and showing 　　me that I wasn’t good at a lot of things, instead of sticking to things that I was comfortable with. It was fantastic, and now some of those activities I cherish. They had to stick to it because I pushed back a lot, but it was fantastic advice. 　　Serwer: Mr. Gates, do you remember specifically 　　dispensing advice, or was it something that was just a natural part of parenting? 　　Bill Gates Sr.: I think to some extent his mother and I were explicit[明确的] about this, but it was mostly just 　　instinctive. We did feel like he ought to go turn out, go and play on the neighborhood softball team and things of that kind. We thought it would be good for him and that h