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有一種創業家，叫做Street smart Entrepreneur。有一本暢銷書，叫做The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up，台灣譯作＜師父：那些我在課堂外學會的本事＞（早安財經出版）。

Street smart，是課堂外學不到的事，街頭的智慧是什麼樣的智慧？我們一起看看。

Definition:
A trait that helps one cope with the everyday person or situation in the Ghetto and also in personal life and business. A people person. One good with words. Smooth-talker. Being street smart means knowing how to keep yourself safe; having the knowledge and experiences needed to survive. 知道如何讓自己遠離危險或麻煩，生存能力高人一等。

Street smart可以當形容詞，形容人有生存的本事，也可以當名詞，複數加S，最初指的是在貧民區危險街頭的生存智慧。要是一個人有 street smarts，在街頭跑警察、跟攤販打交道、很少能夠佔你便宜。Street smarts之後也用在很大城市生存需要的 street smarts。像不走暗巷、不隨便攔計程車、不要讓陌生人跟進電梯等等，都算是street smarts。我們來看一個例子：

“I never got a chance to go to college. My dad died when I was fourteen, and I had to go to work selling hotdogs out of a pushcart on a street corner. But this taught me lots of street smarts, and today I own a chain of fast-food restaurants in sixteen different cities.”

既然有street smart，當然就有它的相反詞，book smart！顧名思義，是knowledge from reading很會讀書，書本教出來的聰明。

Try to be more “street smart” than “book smart.” 一位有實際生活經驗而機警生存頭腦的人要比死讀書的人好些。 

文創英語學程，是開著英語快車，載著文化創意，通向全球市場的高速公路。GO!