Why Your Life Needs Novelty, No Matter Your Age (3)
And then you might experience loss or grief.
And then you enter your 30s and that's it.
No more powerful first experiences and life repeats itself over and over.
Something about that seems so unfulfilling.
Now imagine if you were a kid from a community like the Bronx.
While the Bronx offers amazing experiences, by the time you turn 14 or 15, you can feel like you've experienced all the powerful first experiences in that environment.
And so I became obsessed with figuring out how to give more powerful first experiences to others.
My organization, Gentlemen's Retreat, focuses on young men of color from the inner city who end up going to top colleges and universities, such as Brown University.
These young men are gifted and they're special.
They just felt they experienced everything their community had to offer.
We call these young men Gs for gentlemen.
And while working with these gentlemen and giving them powerful first experiences, I realized it was shaping their identities in a positive way, but it was also increasing their cultural and their social capital.
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然后你会经历失去和伤痛。
然后到了 30 岁，全剧终。
再也没有震撼的第一次，生活一次又一次地反复上演。
这种感觉太没意思了。
想象一下你是一个布朗克斯之类的社区里的小孩。
虽然布朗克斯确实会给你留下一些神奇的经历，但是等你到了 14 或 15 岁,你就会感觉你已经经历过这个环境中所有震撼的第一次了。
我很想知道如何为他人带来更多的震撼的第一次。
我的组织"绅士的静修"（Gentlemen's Retreat）主要关注内陆城市的有色人种，他们最终在顶尖大学院校就读，如布朗大学。
这些年轻人很有天赋，他们是独特的。
他们感觉自己已经经历过他们的社区可以提供的所有事了。
我们称这些年轻人为"G"，代表"绅士"（Gentlemen）。
和这些绅士合作，给他们带来震撼的第一次，我发现这种方式正以积极的方式塑造着他们的身份，同时也在增加他们的文化和社会资本。
An individual has cultural capital because of the environment that they come from.
The knowledge, skills and belief of that environment can be seen as capital or an asset.
And having the combination allows an individual to have economic advantages and other advantages.
And when you collect powerful first experiences, you're collecting cultural capital from different environments.
Social capital is a set of shared values and resources that allows individuals to come together to achieve a common goal.
It can also be thought of as the ability to access resources and favors and information from your network.
Countless connections are fostered when the gentlemen develop intimate relationships in places such as Paris, London and even Montana.
As they spend time with locals, entrepreneurs and even venture capitalists.
They develop a more expansive network and idea of the world.
And increasing cultural and social capital doesn't just benefit the gentlemen, it also benefits the communities that they bless with their presence.
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人们的文化资本来源于他们出身的环境。
关于这个环境的知识、技能和信仰都可以被视为资本或资产。
有了这些，这个人就有了经济上的优势和其他优势。
如果你去积累震撼的第一次，你就积累了来自不同环境的文化资本。
社会资本指的是一些共享的价值和资源，让人们可以齐心协力达成一个共同的目标。
也可以将其想象成从你的社交网络中获取资源、帮助和信息的能力。
随着这些绅士在巴黎、伦敦，甚至是蒙大拿发展了亲密关系，就建立起了无数联结。
他们和当地人、企业家，甚至是风投共度了时光。
他们形成了更宽广的世界网络和全球视野。
增加文化和社会资本不仅仅会为绅士们带来好处，还会让他们出身的社区受益。