An example of ancient celebrities persisting in their ideals and finally succeeding.

1. Sima Guang

Sima Guang is a playful and sleepy child, so he was punished by his teacher 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.

As a result, he didn't wake up in the morning, but he peed in bed.

2. Zuo Si

Zuo Si, a writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, read Zhang Heng's Fu on Two Capitals when he was a teenager, and was greatly inspired. He was determined to write Fu on Three Capitals in the future.

Lu Ji couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing, saying that it was a joke that a vulgar person like Zuo Si wanted to write a masterpiece like Sandu Fu. Even if it is painstakingly written, it must be worthless, only suitable for building wine jars.

In the face of such humiliation, Zuo Si is determined.

He heard that Zhang Zai, a writer, had traveled to Min and Qiong (present-day Sichuan), so he went to the door for advice many times to get familiar with the local mountains, rivers, products and customs.

He visited extensively and collected a lot of information, then devoted himself to writing.

There are papers and pens everywhere in his room, beside the fence and in the toilet. Whenever he thinks of good words, he writes them down and revises them repeatedly.

Zuo Si spent ten years working hard and finally finished Sandu Fu.

Lu Ji was amazed and admired, so he had to admit defeat.

3. Li Bai

Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, didn't like reading when he was a child.

one day, while the teacher was not in the house, he sneaked out to play.

He came to the river at the foot of the mountain and saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle on a stone.

Li Bai was puzzled and asked, "Old woman, what are you doing grinding the iron pestle?" The old woman said, "I am grinding the needle.

"Li Bai asked in surprise," Oh dear! The iron pestle is so thick, how can it be ground into a needle? "

The old woman said with a smile, "As long as you grind it every day, the pestle will get thinner and thinner. Are you afraid it won't work?" After listening to this, Li Bai thought of himself and was ashamed. He turned and ran back to the bookstore.

from then on, he kept in mind the truth that "as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle", and made a determined effort to study, and finally became a great poet, and was called the "Poet Fairy".

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Modern and modern examples of persisting in ideals and finally succeeding:

1. Rockefeller

Rockefeller, the world-famous American oil giant, turned out to be only a small employee of an oil company.

Moreover, his work is the lowest, the most mechanical and the least creative to inspect and confirm whether the oil tank cover is welded automatically.

He watches this kind of homework thousands of times every day until his eyes are almost covered with cocoons. It's really boring.

if someone else does this job, they will either jump ship soon or die of old age by the machine.

The careful Rockefeller became a millionaire because of this work.

2. Lu Xun

Mr. Lu Xun studied hard from an early age.

As a teenager, he studied in Jiangnan Naval Academy, and got excellent grades in the first semester. The school awarded him a gold medal.

He immediately took it to the streets of Nanjing Gulou and sold it. Then he bought some books and a bunch of red peppers.

whenever it's cold at night and reading at night is unbearable, he picks a pepper and chews it in his mouth, making his forehead sweat.

He used this method to drive away the cold and insisted on studying. Because of his hard study, he finally became a famous writer in China.

3. Dickens

Dickens, a famous British writer, usually pays great attention to observing and experiencing life. No matter whether it is windy or rainy, he insists on going to the streets to observe and listen hard every day, writing down the fragmentary words of pedestrians and accumulating rich living materials.

in this way, he was in David Copperfield? He wrote a wonderful description of the dialogue between characters and left a vivid description of the social background in A Tale of Two Cities, thus becoming a generation of British writers and achieving great success in his literary career.