1、翻了个译，MTI专业辅导 I was six when I had the first chance to learn what patience means.My grandmother gave me a magic box as a birthday present,which neither of us knew would become a gift for life.I became obsessed with magic,and at 20, I became an amateur dove magician.This act of magic requires that I t
2、rain my dovesto sit and wait inside my clothing.As a young magician, I was always in a rush to make them appear,but my teacher told methe secret to the success of this magical actis to make my doves appear only after theyve waited patientlyin my tuxedo.It has to be a mindful kind of patience,the kin
3、d that took me some years to master.When life took me to Shanghai seven years ago,the mindful patience I learned became almost impossible to practice.In China, where everyone and everything is in a hurry,you need to outperform over 1.3 billion other peopleto build a better life.You hack the system,
4、bend the rules,circumvent the boundaries.It is the same when it comes to food .except that when it comes to food,impatience can have dire consequences.In the haste to grow more, sell more,4,000 years of agriculture in a country of rich natural resourcesis spoiled by the overuse of chemicals and pest
5、icides.In 2016, the Chinese government revealedhalf a million food safety violations in just nine months.Alarmingly, one in every four diabetics in the worldnow comes from China.The stories around foodare scary and somewhat overwhelming,and I told myself its time to bring a mindful patience into the
6、 impatience.When I say mindful patience, I dont mean the ability to wait. I mean knowing how to act while waiting. And so, while I wait for the day when a sustainable food system becomes a reality in China, I launched one of Chinas first online farmers market to bring local, organically grown produc
7、e to families. When we went live, 18 months ago, the food we could sell then was somewhat dismal. We had no fruit and hardly any meat to sell, as none that was sent to the lab passed our zero tolerance test towards pesticides, chemicals, antibiotics and hormones. I told our very anxious employees th
8、at we would not give up until weve met every local farmer in China. Today, we supply 240 types of producefrom 57 local farmers.After almost one year of searching,we finally found chemical-free bananasgrown in the backyards of villagers on Hainan Island.And only two hours away from Shanghai,on an isl
9、and that even Google Maps does not have coordinates for,we found a place where cows eat grassand roam free under the blue sky.We also work hard on logistics.We deliver our customers orders in as fast as three hourson electric vehicles,and we use biodegradable, reusable boxesto minimize our environme
10、ntal footprint.I have no doubt that our offerings will continue to grow,but it will take time,and I know a lot more people are needed to shape the future of good food.So last year, I founded Chinas first food tech accelerator and VC platformto help start-ups to shape the future of good foodthe way they want,be that through using edible insects as a more sustainable source of proteinor using essential oils to keep food fresh for longer.翻了个译，MTI专业辅导
