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Scrapper and spoon (A- The Silver Spoon (The one who clearly had…

- - - - Speaker is a scrapper
        
        She was highly motivated to understand the relationship between business success and Scrappers, because her life could easily have turned out very differently.
        
        She's the fourth of five children raised by a single mother.
        
        They never owned a home, a car, a washing machine, and for most of my childhood, they didn't even have a telephone.
      - Steve Jobs
        
        His parents give him up for adoption.
        
        He never finishes college.
        
        He job-hops quite a bit, goes on a sojourn to India for a year, and to top it off, he has dyslexia.
      - Speaker's colleague
        
        At age 13, his parents were relocated to the countryside, the schools were closed and he was left alone in Beijing.
        
        Today, he holds a master's degree, and his daughters each have degrees from Cornell and Harvard.
    - - Many of them had experienced early hardships, anywhere from poverty, abandonment, death of a parent while young, to learning disabilities, alcoholism and violence.
      - Trauma leads to distress, and there's been a lot of focus on the resulting dysfunction. Even the worst circumstances can result in growth and transformation.
    - - Among a subset of 698 children who experienced the most severe and extreme conditions, fully one-third grew up to lead healthy, successful and productive lives.
      - In the US, 35 percent of the entrepreneurs studied had dyslexia.
      - Those entrepreneurs who experience post traumatic growth now view their learning disability as a desirable difficulty which provided them an advantage because they became better listeners and paid greater attention to detail.
    - - Somewhere along the way, they find people who bring out the best in them and who are invested in their success.