Why give up what you are not good at?

Yang Zhenning loved physics when he was young and wanted to be an experimental physicist.

When Yang Zhenning went to the United States to study in 1943, he decided to write a paper on experimental physics. So Fermi suggested that Yang Zhenning and Taylor do some theoretical research first, and the experiment can be carried out in Allison's laboratory.

However, in the nearly 20 months of working in the laboratory, Yang Zhenning's physical experiments went very smoothly, and explosions often occurred during the experiment, so that there was a joke circulating in the laboratory at that time: where there was an explosion, there was Yang Zhenning. At this point, Yang Zhenning had to admit painfully that his hands-on ability was worse than others!

One day, Dr. Taylor, who has been paying attention to Yang Zhenning and is known as the father of American hydrogen bombs, asked Yang Zhenning with concern: "Isn't your experiment very successful?"

"yes." Facing the respected predecessors, Yang Zhenning said sincerely.

"I don't think you need to insist on writing an experimental paper. You wrote a theoretical paper. I suggest you enrich your doctoral thesis. I can be your mentor. " Taylor said bluntly to Yang Zhenning.

Yang Zhenning listened to Taylor's words, and his mood was very complicated. On the one hand, he felt from the bottom of his heart that he really couldn't do the experiment; On the other hand, he is unwilling to admit defeat, and he very much hopes to make up for his lack of experimental ability by writing an experimental paper. He is very grateful to Taylor for his concern, but it is not easy for him to make up his mind to give up his idea. "I want to think about it. I'll tell you in a couple of days. " Yang Zhenning said earnestly.

Yang Zhenning thought hard for two days. He remembers one thing when he was in elementary school in Xiamen: once in a handicraft class, Yang Zhenning pinched a chicken with great interest and took it home for his parents to see. My parents smiled and said, "Very good, very good. Is it a lotus root? " The past came to mind one by one, and he had to admit that his hands-on ability was really not strong. Finally, Yang Zhenning accepted Taylor's suggestion and gave up writing experimental papers. From then on, he resolutely turned his main energy to theoretical physics research, and finally won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Li Zhengdao in June of 1957+00.

Change is sometimes difficult, even painful. Timely change requires not only courage and courage, but also foresight and wisdom.

There is also a Nobel Prize winner, who is also such a person who "re-started his business" after failure.

When he was in middle school, his parents chose literature as his path. After only one semester, the teacher concluded in his comments that the student was very diligent, but too rigid. Such a person, even if his moral character is perfect, will never achieve anything in literature.

So I changed to oil painting, but I didn't care about composition and color matching, and my understanding of art was poor.

Later, the chemistry teacher found that he was meticulous and had the proper personality to do chemical experiments, and suggested that he change to chemistry.

This time, the spark of his wisdom was ignited, and his chemistry score was far ahead of his classmates. Later, he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and his name was otto wallach.