Example: Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942. This is a special day. Galileo, the founder of modern science, died on the same day 300 years ago. After graduating from Oxford University, Hawking went to Cambridge University for graduate school. At this time, he was diagnosed with "Lou Gehrig's disease" and soon became completely paralyzed. In 1985, Hawking underwent tracheal surgery due to pneumonia. After that, he was completely unable to speak and relied on a small intercom and language synthesizer installed in his wheelchair to talk to people; when reading, he had to rely on a machine that turned the pages of the book. When documenting, you need to ask someone to spread out each page on a big table, and then he drives the wheelchair to read page by page like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves... It was in this unbelievable difficulty for ordinary people that Hawking became a world-recognized gravitational force. Giant of physical science. Hawking holds the Lucasian Chair Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, where Newton once served. His black hole evaporation theory and quantum cosmology not only shocked the world of natural science, but also had a profound impact on philosophy and religion. After several years of hard writing and revision, the cosmology popular science work "A Brief History of Time" was officially published in April 1988. The book guides readers to travel through the exotic realms of outer space, exploring distant galaxies, black holes, quarks, grand unified theories, "flavored" particles and "spin" particles, antimatter, and the "arrow of time," etc. "A Brief History of Time" has sold 5.5 million copies in 33 languages. Today in the West, people who claim to be educated will be looked down upon if they have not read this book. Doctors had diagnosed Hawking, who was terminally ill, with only two years to live. The most important reason why he can survive to this day and achieve outstanding achievements is that he has a strong sense of mission and an extremely strong will. Hawking's life is a record of human willpower and a miracle created by the scientific spirit.
Don’t give up until you reach your goal - Carnegie Clement Stone is the chairman of the United Insurance Company and one of the largest business tycoons in the United States. Known as the "insurance geek."
Shi Dong lost his father when he was young, and relied on his mother to sew clothes for others to make a living. To support the family, he went out to sell newspapers at a very young age. Once he walked into a restaurant to sell newspapers and was kicked out. He took advantage of the restaurant owner's surprise and sneaked in to sell newspapers. The angry restaurant owner kicked him out, but Stone just rubbed his butt and slipped into the restaurant again with more newspapers in his hand. Seeing his courage, those guests finally persuaded the host not to chase him away and bought his newspapers one after another. Stone's butt hurt, but his pockets were full of money.
Face difficulties bravely and never give up until you reach your goal - Stone was such a child, and he remained that kind of person later on.
When Stone was still in middle school, he started trying to sell insurance. He came to a building, and the situation when he was selling newspapers appeared in front of him again. While trembling, he comforted himself, "If you do it, there will be no loss, and there may be big gains, then start doing it." And "Do it now!"
He walked into the building, and if he was kicked out, he was ready to try to get in again, just like he was kicked out of the restaurant after selling newspapers. He was not given out. He went to every office. He kept thinking: "Do it right away!" Every time he walked out of an office without success, he was worried that he would hit a nail in the next office. Without hesitation, however, he forced himself into the next office. He found a secret: rush to the next office immediately, and there would be no time to get scared and give up.
That day, two people bought insurance with him. In terms of sales volume, he failed, but in terms of understanding himself and the art of sales, he made great gains.
The next day, he sold four policies. On the third day, six portions. His career began.
When he was twenty years old, Stone established his own insurance brokerage agency. On the first day of business, he sold 54 insurance policies on the bustling street. One day, he had an almost unbelievable record of one hundred and twenty-two. Based on an eight-hour day, one transaction is completed every four minutes.
At the end of 1938, Clement Stone became a millionaire.
my country’s classic literary masterpiece "A Dream of Red Mansions" was written by Cao Xueqin in the face of adversity. of. After personally experiencing the rapid decline of the bureaucratic aristocratic family that had been "proud and prosperous" for a hundred years, he saw the rise and fall of the feudal ruling class and its irreversible fate. He deeply felt that he was born at the wrong time and his talents were not appreciated. He was determined to Write an unprecedented novel that has been handed down from generation to generation. But Cao Xueqin, who was in adversity, encountered difficulties that we can hardly imagine today. In feudal society, the only "right path" for scholars was to read classics and take imperial examinations. Writing novels was considered "unworthy" and "untalented" behavior. It was also a period when literary inquisition was prevalent in the Qing Dynasty. A slight carelessness in writing would offend the ruling class, which could range from being exiled to the army, to being executed by the whole family, or even implicating nine ethnic groups. At that time, in addition to the material hardships such as lack of food and clothing, what was particularly unbearable was the mental torture. Upper-class rulers and literati are accustomed to picking up clues from novels, guessing what "innuendo" they contain and which family's secrets are exposed. However, what Cao Xueqin wrote was precisely a book about "resenting the world and criticizing the times", which was dissatisfied by the tribesmen and jealous of the rulers.
Except for a few close friends who supported him, everyone thought he was a "fool" and a "madman". The rulers even demolished his house and moved him several times to prevent his writing activities. Faced with such adversity, Cao Xueqin did not retreat, but only drew motivation from it and worked harder to write. Cao Xueqin used adversity as motivation, so she was not intimidated by hunger, nor stopped writing because of lack of money to buy paper, nor did she write hastily because she was poor and bullied. He devoted all his efforts to the writing of "A Dream of Red Mansions". In the face of adversity, he "read it for two years, added and deleted it five times", and finally wrote "A Dream of Red Mansions" that has been praised by the world.
Although Cao Xueqin did not get more material enjoyment during his lifetime, he got infinite satisfaction and happiness from the creation of "Dream of Red Mansions". After his death, people gave him the honor he deserved.
Kepler, the outstanding German astronomer known as the "legislator of the sky", also used adversity as motivation and worked hard to achieve outstanding achievements. Kepler was a loyal believer in the heliocentric theory of Copernicus. He indulged in the study of astronomy and wrote a book entitled "The Mystery of the Universe". However, at that time, religious superstition was prevalent and science was inferior. In the 1960s, he was abused, intimidated and persecuted by the Catholic Church, and was almost left alone and helpless. Although the Danish astronomer Cegu Brahe passed away. This was a heavy blow to Kepler, who was in adversity, both mentally and physically. While poverty, hunger, and disease plagued Kepler, the Inquisition also attacked this Copernican believer, regarded his works as "heresy," banned them, destroyed them, and even threatened to execute this heretic. .
Kepler, who was in adversity, did not fall due to poverty, disease, church persecution and other misfortunes. He used adversity as a motivation and fought bravely in the world of science. He finally discovered the three laws of planetary motion and made an immortal contribution to future generations.