Famous examples of reading changing fate

Examples of famous people whose lives were changed by reading are: Kuang Heng, Emerson, Churchill, Sima Guang, Princess Kate, Su Xun, Chen Jingrun, etc.

1. Kuang Heng

was a famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty. When he was a child, his family was poor and he couldn't afford to buy a lamp. His neighbor's house had a light at night, so he couldn't read at night, so he dug a hole in the wall. He read by light. After science, he finally got a university question and became a generation of celebrities.

2. Emerson

Emerson, an American scholar, loves reading. He regards reading as a spiritual magic. He said that when you go in, it is a short action, but what comes out is immortal thoughts. What goes in is trivial, but what comes out is poetry. Emerson had a soft spot for reading, which changed him.

3. Churchill

Many people know that Churchill was a great speaker, a former British prime minister and a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, but few people know that the first 2 years of Churchill's life were terrible, and he almost lost his life. However, reading allowed him to complete the counterattack, rewrite his fate and save his life.

4. Sima Guang

Sima Guang is a playful and sleepy child, so he was punished by his husband and laughed at by his peers. Under his teacher's inculcation, he was determined to get rid of the bad habit of sleepiness. In order to get up early, he drank a full stomach of water before going to bed, but he was not awakened in the morning, but peed in bed.

So smart Sima Guang made a police pillow out of logs. When he turned over in the morning, his head slipped on the bed board and he woke up naturally. From then on, he got up early every day to study, persevered, and finally became a knowledgeable writer who wrote Zi Zhi Tong Jian.

5. Princess Kate

Princess Kate loves to study since she was a child, and she is also diligent in reading. She has always been an excellent student in the school. After graduating from high school in 21, she was successfully admitted to St Andrews University, a famous university in Britain, to study art history. It was here that she met Prince William and became lovers. Kate has been respected since she married Prince William, which is inseparable from her knowledge and intelligence.

6. Su Xun

Su Xun was one of the eight masters of prose in Tang and Song Dynasties. When he was young, he was playful, and he didn't study hard. Only at the age of 27 did he study hard and seize all the time to read. One year during the Dragon Boat Festival, his family sent him zongzi and white sugar. When his family came, his white sugar didn't move. When he finished eating zongzi, he actually made a joke about it. Su Xun, with his hard-working spirit, finally achieved something and became a great generation.

7. Chen Jingrun

Chen Jingrun was originally from a poor family and worked as an apprentice in a grocery store. However, he didn't yield to his fate, but kept on striving for self-improvement. He taught himself mathematics in the evening, then he listened in Tsinghua, and later he changed his destiny and even shocked the world because of the famous Goldbach conjecture.