Zhang Liang: had unsuccessfully sneaked up on Emperor Qin Shi Huang while he was traveling east

Liu Bang: had lost to Xiang Yu several times

Mao Zedong: had lost leadership

Liu Bei; had almost been killed by Cao Cao

Cao Cao: had failed miserably in his attack on Dong Zhuo

Si Ma Qian: had been put to death by corruption and made his book "The Records of History"

Sun Zhongshan: had fled abroad several times

Sun Bin: had been crippled by Pang Juan

Sun Bin: had been crippled by Pang Juan <

Sun Yat-sen: fled abroad several times

Sun Bin: was crippled by Pang Juan

Zhu Yuanzhang: was defeated by Chen Youliang

Zhang Haidi: was physically handicapped

Edison: slapped until he went deaf for a scientific experiment

Nobel: paid the price of blood for scientific experiments for him and his family

Barenie was disabled by illness as a child, his mother's heart was like a knife, but she held back her grief. What the child needed most now, she thought, was encouragement and help, not a mother's tears. The mother came to Bareni's hospital bed, took his hand and said: "Son, mom believes that you are a person with ambition, I hope you can use your own legs, on the road of life bravely! Good Bareni, are you able to promise mom?" Mother's words, like a hammer hit Bareni's heart, he "wow", jumped into his mother's arms and cried. From then on, his mother practiced walking and gymnastics for him whenever she had time, often sweating profusely. Once her mother had a bad cold, she thought, "Motherhood is not only about words, but also about teaching by example. Despite her high fever, she got out of bed and helped Bareni practice walking as planned. Sweat like soybeans dripped down her face, she wiped it off with a dry towel, gritted her teeth, and helped Bareni complete his exercise program for the day. Physical activity made up for the inconvenience caused by his disability. His mother's example was an inspiration to Bareni, and he was able to withstand the harsh blows of fate. He studied hard and was always at the top of his class. Finally, with excellent results into the University of Vienna Medical School. After graduating from the university, Barenie with all the energy, dedicated to the study of otological neurology. Finally, finally on the podium of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

Hua Luogeng. After graduating from junior high school, Hua Luogeng was enrolled in the Shanghai Chinese Vocational School, due to tuition fees and dropped out, so only a junior high school diploma in his life.

After that, he began to study on his own, and in five years he completed all the math courses in high school and the lower grades of college. 1928, he contracted typhoid fever, and was saved by his wife's care, but he was left with a disabled left leg, and at the age of 20 he was asked to work at Tsinghua University for a paper that was a sensation in the mathematical world.

Since 1931, Hua Luogeng worked and studied at Tsinghua University, completing the entire math department in a year and a half.

In the summer of 1936, Hua Luogeng was sent to the University of Cambridge for further study, and in two years he published more than ten papers, which aroused the appreciation of the international mathematical community.

In 1938, Hua Luogeng returned to China from his visit to the United Kingdom, and in a cowshed-like attic on the outskirts of Kunming, he struggled to write his masterpiece, A Theory of the Stacked Prime Numbers.

Late in the night of December 1914, Edison's manufacturing equipment was badly damaged by a fire that cost him about $1 million and the vast majority of his work record, which is difficult to quantify in monetary terms. The next morning, he took a walk beside the ashes that buried the fruits of his years of labor. The inventor said, "Disasters have their value; all our mistakes have been burned away, and now we can begin again." Edison's achievements are really admirable, but even more admirable is his courage in the face of setbacks. Life's journey, there will inevitably be difficulties, bumps or heavy blows. In the face of these, you can be sad, you can regret, but it is important not to lose the courage to face it.

Han Xin

Poverty in the early years Han Xin, Peng Yue and Ying Bu were the three main generals in Liu Bang's fight for the world. Han Xin was a native of Huaiyin (southeast of present-day Huaiyin City, Jiangsu Province). When he was young, his family was poor. His parents died early. When his mother died, he had no money to bury her, "but he camped on a high and spacious land, so that he could put ten thousand families next to her". As a poor man, Han Xin could not be elected as a government official and had no money to do business, so he had to wander around for food and was often stared at in the face. He often ate at the house of the chief of Nanchang pavilion in his hometown. After a long time, the wife of the head of the pavilion was so disgusted with him that she ate in advance, so that Han Xin could not eat when he arrived. When Han Xin went to the bottom of the city to fish, there were some old mothers there. One of the old mothers, seeing that he was always hungry, gave him her own food for dozens of days. Han Xin was grateful and said, "I will repay my mother in kind." The old mother said angrily, "A great man can't eat for himself, but I'm mourning for the king's grandson, so I don't expect to repay him!" A young butcher in Huaiyin, seeing that Han Xin was tall and well armed with a sword, but he went around begging for food, insulted him in public, saying, "If Xin can die, stab me. If you can't die, come out from under my hakama." The onlookers were up in arms, waiting for Han Xin's choice. He endured the humiliation and "exhorted him to get out from under his hakama and lie down. The city laughed at him and thought he was cowardly."

Liu Qi reads with a burning ogi. Liu Qi (刘绮), a native of Pengcheng (彭城) in the Liang Dynasty (1644-1911), "was a poor man who was orphaned and could not afford to buy a lamp, so he used to buy an ogi (荻) and burn it to make a lamp.

Sutin blowing fire reading. "less than the father's intention, often mixed with the servants, and good learning. Every want to read, always no light, tasted in the stables, borrowing fire to read books, its bitter so."

Changlin, with the scriptures, plowed and hoed. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Chang Lin, "was a good student, and plowed and hoeed with a scripture. His wife often feeds him, and although he is in the field, he is as respectful as a guest."

Li Mi's cow horn hanging book. Li Mi of Sui Dynasty, when he was a teenager, he was assigned as a guard in Emperor Yang's court. He was flexible by nature, and when he was on duty, he looked left and right, which was discovered by Emperor Yang of Sui, who thought that the boy was not very honest and exempted him from his duties. Li Mi did not feel sorry for him, but went home and studied hard to be a learned man. Once, Li Mi rode an ox and went out to see his friends. On the way, he hung the Book of Han on the bull's horn and read it as fast as he could. This incident was rumored to be a good story.

Dong Zhongshu did not peep into the garden for three years. Dong Zhongshu concentrated on his studies and was tireless. Although there was a garden behind his study, he concentrated on reading and studying, and did not enter the garden for three years to enjoy a glance. Dong Zhongshu was so dedicated to his studies that he became a famous thinker of the Western Han Dynasty.

Guan Ning cut the seat to sit separately. In the Han Dynasty, Guan Ning and Hua Xin were good friends. One day, the two men sat together to study, there are dignitaries passing by in a car, tube Ning undisturbed, reading as usual, while Hua Xin went out to watch, envious. Guan Ning saw Hua Xin and himself are not really like-minded friends, then cut the seat to sit separately. The tube Ning afterward finally successful career!

Kuangheng chiseled wall to steal light. During the Western Han Dynasty, there was a particularly learned man named Kuang Heng, Kuang Heng was poor when he was a child, in order to study, he chiseled through the wall of his neighbor Wen Buzhi's house, and borrowed a wisp of candlelight to read, and finally touched his neighbor Wen Buzhi, and with everyone's help, the little Kuang Heng achieved success in his studies. In the reign of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Kuangheng was recommended by Shi Gao, a general of the Imperial Court, and he was appointed as a doctor and moved to the rank of Langzhong.

Che Yin's night reading. Che Yin, the word Wuzi, Jin Dynasty Nanping (now the city of public security in Hubei Province) people, from a young family penniless, but reading is very diligent, "the family is poor and not always get oil, the summer months are practicing the bag to hold dozens of fireflies to illuminate the book, to the night after the day Yan." Che Yin bag firefly read the story, in history has been passed down as a beautiful story, inspired by later generations of readers.

Chen Ping endured the humiliation of hard reading. Chen Ping, a famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty, when he was poor, and his brother, in order to uphold his father's orders, shining family, not to do production, closed-door reading, but for his sister-in-law, in order to eliminate the contradiction between brother and sister-in-law, the face of repeated humiliation, stoicism, with the sister-in-law's intensification, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and ran away from home, wanting to wander the world, was recovered by the older brother, and regardless of the previous suspicion, blocking his brother to rest his sister-in-law, the story was passed down as a beautiful one in the local community. The story goes that an old man came to the city to teach his students free of charge, and after he finished his studies, he assisted Liu Bang and achieved a great success.

Lu Yu abandoned Buddhism to pursue literature. The famous Tang Dynasty scholar Lu Yu, an orphan since childhood, was raised by Zen master Zhi Jie. Although Lu Yu was raised in a temple, he did not want to spend his days chanting Buddhist scriptures, but preferred to read poetry and books. Lu Yu was opposed by the Zen master when he insisted on going down the mountain to study. The Zen master asked Lu Yu to learn how to brew tea in order to give him a hard time and also to educate him better. In the process of studying the art of tea, Lu Yu came across a kindly old woman and learned not only the complicated techniques of tea brewing, but also a lot about reading and being a human being. When Lu Yu finally brought a cup of steaming hot bitter tea to the Zen master, he finally agreed to his request to study in the mountains. Later, Lu Yu wrote the widely circulated "Tea Sutra," which carried forward the tea culture of his country!

Junior Bao Zheng learns to solve cases. Bao Zheng Bao Qingtian, since childhood, intelligent, diligent learning, especially like reasoning case, his father and the county governor close interaction, Bao Zheng childhood, learn a lot of knowledge, especially in the case of the burning temple to kill monks, Bao Zheng according to the traces of the scene, peeling the cocoon and extracting the threads, after investigating the suspects, and then pretending to be the king of Yan, the truth of the matter, and assisted the governor to apprehend the murderer for the people to eliminate the evils. He studied hard to learn the knowledge of law and criminal justice, and laid a deep knowledge foundation for the people after he grew up to solve the cases like God, and redress the wrongs for the people.

Wanshitong studied hard behind closed doors. Wanshitong, a famous scholar and historian in the early Qing Dynasty, participated in the compilation of China's important history book, the Twenty-Four Histories. But Wanshitong was also a naughty child when he was small. Due to his playfulness, Wanshitong lost face in front of his guests and thus was criticized by them. Enraged, Wanshitong overturned the guests' table and was locked up in the study by his father. Wanshitong went from being angry and averse to reading to shutting down and being inspired by the Tea Sutra to start reading by heart. More than a year passed, Wanshitong read a lot of books in the study house, his father forgave his son, and Wanshitong also understood his father's good intentions. After a long period of diligent study, Wanshitong finally became a famous scholar who knew history and read a lot of books, and took part in the work of compiling the Ming History, one of the Twenty-four Histories.

Tang Pak Fu studied painting. Tang Pak Fu was a famous painter and writer in the Ming Dynasty, and showed superhuman talent in painting when he was small. Tang Pak Fu worship teacher, under the great painter Shen Zhou, learning naturally more hard and diligent, master painting skills very quickly, praised by Shen Zhou. Unexpectedly, due to Shen Zhou's praise, this time so that the always modest Tang Bohu also gradually produced complacency, Shen Zhou see in the eyes, in the heart, a meal, Shen Zhou let Tang Bohu to open the window, Tang Bohu found himself under the window is actually the teacher of Shen Zhou's a painting, Tang Bohu is very ashamed, and from now on to learn to paint.

Qu Yuan studied hard in the cave. In spite of the opposition of his elders, Qu Yuan hid in a cave to read the Book of Poetry in spite of the wind, rain and freezing weather. After three whole years, he familiarized himself with 305 pieces of the Book of Songs, absorbed rich nutrients from these folk songs and ballads, and finally became a great poet.

Fan Zhongyan (范仲淹) broke pieces of rice to make porridge. Fan Zhongyan grew up in a poor family, and in order to study, he saved his money. Finally, his diligence touched the temple elders, who sent him to study in Nandu Academy. Fan Zhongyan still insisted on his simple living habits and refused to accept gifts from rich families in order to sharpen his will. After studying hard, he finally became a great writer.

Sima Guang's police pillow inspirational. Sima Guang is a playful and sleepy child, for which he was not less chastised by Mr. and companion ridicule, in the Mr.'s teaching, he was determined to change the bad habits of sleepy, in order to get up early, he went to bed before he drank a full stomach of water, the result is that the morning did not be suffocated to wake up, but pissed the bed, so the smart Sima Guang with a garden wood for a police pillow, the morning of a turn over, his head slipped in the bed boards, naturally awakened, and from then on he Every day early to get up and read, perseverance, and finally became a learned, wrote the "Ziji Tongjian" of the great writers.

Xuanzang studied Buddhism hard. Xuan Award is a monk in the Tang Dynasty, in order to seek the original text of the Buddhist scriptures, Xuanzang left Chang'an in August of the third year of Zhenguan, 10,000 miles of trekking, westward to obtain the scriptures, and finally arrived in India, which lasted seventeen years, authored the "Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty", which made great contributions to Buddhism and human progress and world civilization.

Yue Fei learns the art. National hero Yue Fei was born in the chaotic times, poor since childhood, under the financial support of neighbors, worship Shaanxi master Zhou Tong martial arts, during the period, witnessed the destruction of mountains and rivers, the people displaced, developed the ambition to learn the art of serving the country, to overcome the complacency of the mood. In the summer and winter, hard practice, in the famous teacher Zhou Tong's careful guidance, finally practiced Yuejia snatch, and led Wang Gui, Tang Xian and other partners, to join the patriotic flood of anti-Golden salvation of the country.

Li Gui Zhen learns to paint tigers. Five generations of the tiger painting master Li Guizhen from childhood like to paint, especially like to paint the tiger, but due to not have seen the real tiger, always painted the tiger as a sick cat, so he was determined to enter the deep forests, visit the real tiger, after a lot of painstakingly, in the hunter's uncle's help, and finally saw the real tiger, through a large number of sketching copying, its tiger painting techniques by leaps and bounds, under the pen of the tiger life-like, a few can be messed with the real tiger. Since then, he spent most of his life traveling to many famous mountains and rivers, saw more birds and beasts, and finally became a generation of painting masters.

Shen Kuo went up the mountain to see peach blossoms. "April on earth, the peach blossom on the mountain temple began to bloom", when reading this poem, Shen Kuo's eyebrows into a knot, "why we here flowers are blossomed, the peach blossom on the mountain only began to bloom?", in order to solve this mystery, Shen Kuo's eyebrows into a knot. In order to solve this mystery, Shen Kuo about a few buddies on the mountain field trip, in April on the mountain, how warm and cold, cool winds, freezing people shivering, Shen Kuo spear thatched, it turns out that the temperature on the mountain than under the mountain to be a lot lower, so the flower season only came later than the mountain down ah. With this spirit of inquiry and empirical methods, grew up after Shen Kuo wrote the "Mengxi Bianan".

Xu Xiake's ambition was the world. One day, a strange thing happened by the river, many people were salvaging the stone lion that fell into the water, but could not find it. At this time, a child named Xu Xiake said, as long as the river upstream, you can find the stone lion. Sure enough, the stone lion was found, and everyone praised this clever kid. It turned out that he was Xu Xiake, who grew up to be a great geographer and traveler.

Li Sheng practiced as a divine archer. Li Sheng's father was a mighty general, and Li Sheng wanted to grow up to be like his father. However, his father always said that he was too young to practice martial arts. Unwilling to do so, Li Sheng secretly learned archery, and finally practiced to become an archer with a hundred hits, impressing his father.

Lu You book nest hard learning. Lu You, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, he grew up hardworking and diligent, keen and studious. In his house, the table is decorated with books, the cabinet is filled with books, and the bed is stacked with books, which is called the book nest. He was diligent in creation and left more than 9,000 poems in his life, becoming an outstanding great writer in the history of China.

Liu Fenghua Buddhist temple borrowed to read. Late at night, the Buddhist temple suddenly came to the sound of reading aloud. The young monks were frightened, thinking that there were ghosts inside, and immediately reported to the old monk. So, the old monk led the little monk to catch the ghost, I did not realize that the "ghost" was a poor child called Liu Fo, who was borrowing the Buddha's lamp to read. After studying hard, Liu Fu finally became a great writer.

Yan Ruo璩 stuttered and became a great scholar. Yan Ruoqu, a famous scholar, was a stuttering child when he was young, and was often ridiculed and bullied. Encouraged by his mother and teachers, Yan Ruoqu studied hard with the spirit of "diligence can make up for clumsiness" and made several times the efforts of others to catch up with his normal classmates, and thereafter, Yan Ruoqu became a famous scholar with the spirit of "good learning and willingness to endure hardship".

Gu Yanwu read through ten thousand books. Gu Yanwu, a thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was very unfortunate in his childhood, and smallpox disease almost took away his life. Although he was weak and sickly, under the teaching and encouragement of his mother, Gu Yanwu studied diligently and copied the Ziji Tongjian by hand with great perseverance, and finally became a generation of great scholars.

Ouyang Xiu borrowed books. Ouyang Xiu, a great writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, was gifted since childhood, but due to poverty, the family could not afford to buy paper and pens, Ouyang Xiu's mother, Zheng, in order to allow her son to practice writing, came up with an ingenious way to use ogi grass instead of brushes to teach little Ouyang Xiu to write. Ouyang Xiu's diligence and hard work resulted in a good handwriting, and he became known as a prodigy, and this spirit of hard work also influenced his young companion, Li Yaosu, who took him on the path of learning.

Pu Songling asked about the road to Cao Ting. Pu Songling, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, built a thatched pavilion by the side of the road to record the stories told by passers-by, and after decades of hard work, coupled with his own sleeplessness, he finally completed the epoch-making and brilliant masterpiece in the history of ancient Chinese literature, Liaozhai Zhiyi (Liaozhai's Stories).

Jia Kui stole the lessons through the fence. Jia Kui, character Jing Bo, born in 30 A.D., a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a famous scribe and astronomer. He was the ninth grandson of Jia Yi, a famous scholar of the Western Han Dynasty. His father, Jia Hui, was also a great scholar. Jia Kui was y influenced by his family and grew up to be intelligent. In order to be able to study, Jia Kui as a child eavesdropped on his teacher's lectures through a bamboo fence.

Meng Ke reformed and studied hard. Mencius was a famous thinker and statesman in the Warring States period. However, Meng Zi was not a born learned person, he was very playful when he was young and did not like to study. Later, in order to educate him, Meng's mother moved three times and cut the cloth to enlighten him. Finally, Mencius understood that he had to work hard and diligently in order to be successful.

Song Lian braved the snow to visit his teacher. Song Lian, a famous essayist and scholar of the Ming Dynasty, was praised by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, as "the first of the founding ministers of literature" because he was not only knowledgeable but also a good writer. Song Lian loves to read, and when he encounters something he doesn't understand, he always tries to get to the bottom of it. This time, Song Lian walked dozens of miles in the snow to consult Mr. Meng Ji, a teacher who was no longer accepting students, in order to clarify a question, but the teacher was not at home. Song Lian was not discouraged, but visited the teacher again a few days later, but the teacher did not receive him. Because of the cold weather, Song Lian and his companions were frozen enough that Song Lian's toes were frostbitten. When Song Lian was visiting alone for the third time, he fell into a snow pit and was fortunately rescued. When Song Lian almost fainted in front of his teacher's house, the teacher was touched by his sincerity and patiently answered Song Lian's questions. Later, Song Lian visited many teachers in order to seek more learning, despite the hardships and difficulties, and eventually became a famous prose writer!

Tao Hongjing's vegetable garden for learning. In ancient times, there are many misconceptions about the natural world, people believe that the screw win is the lacewing into their own son of this ridiculous legend, but also to lead the son called "lacewing son. Tao Hongjing doubted this. He found a nest of Eumenes in the vegetable garden in the village, squatting in the vegetable field to concentrate on all day observation. Tao Hongjing found that they have male and female, after many days of meticulous observation, Tao Hongjing finally uncovered the secret of the Eumenes armored lacewing: the original Eumenes also have their own offspring, lacewing is articulated to the nest to the larvae as food, there is no such thing as "lacewing son of the lacewing"! From then on, Tao Hongjing more feel, everything is best to personally observe, never people cloud.

Confucius was not ashamed to ask questions:

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius was honored as a "sage", and he had two thousand disciples, all of whom asked him for advice. His "Analects" has been passed down through the centuries.

Confucius was a learned man, but he was still open-minded enough to seek advice from others. Once, he went to the Imperial Temple to pay homage to his ancestors. As soon as he entered the temple, he found it strange and asked others about it. Some people laughed and said, "Confucius is very learned, why do you still ask questions?" Confucius heard this and said, "What is wrong with asking about everything?" His disciple asked him, "Why was he called Kong Wenzi after Kong Mang died?" Confucius said, "Being smart and studious, and not being ashamed to ask questions, is what makes him worthy of the name 'Wen'." The disciples thought, "The teacher often asked for advice from others, and was not ashamed of it!"

Being open-minded and willing to learn from all people, including those lower than oneself, is called "not being ashamed to ask questions."