Examples of celebrities trying to make up for their own shortcomings

There was a famous scholar named Zhang Xuecheng in Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Xuecheng was not a clever boy when he was young. He has a poor memory and a thin body. When he is old enough to go to school, his parents will send him to a private school to study, and other children will learn to recite, and soon they will all know; Zhang Xuecheng, on the other hand, found it difficult to lose points and could not read a few words a day. Every day after school, other children are playing happily, but Zhang Xuecheng is still reviewing the lessons of the day over and over again. When the father saw his son studying so hard, he was exhausted every day, and his heart was anxious and uncomfortable. When relatives and friends saw Zhang Xuecheng, they all lamented: "This child is born with poor intelligence and will not have much promise when he grows up." Every time Zhang Xuecheng hears such words, his heart is particularly sad.

Although the words of relatives and friends are not pleasant to hear, they have strengthened Zhang Xuecheng's belief in learning. Undaunted, he insisted on reading every day. One day, he read a book called the Book of Rites, which contained a passage: "What a man can do, he will do it;" People can do it in ten ways and thousands of ways. If you can do this, you will know if you are stupid, but if you are soft, you will be strong. " That is to say, what others can learn once, learn a hundred times by themselves; What others can learn ten times, learn a thousand times by yourself. If you really insist on doing this, no matter how stupid you are, you can become smart and powerful.

Zhang Xuecheng thinks these words are very suitable for his own situation, and decides to do what the book says, spend more time than others, study hard, study hard, and make himself smart and powerful. Since then, he has studied harder.

After a long period of hard study, Zhang Xuecheng not only significantly improved his academic performance, but also gradually enhanced his intelligence, and also explored a set of good learning methods.

In his spare time, he read the works of many famous ancient thinkers and tried to be diligent when reading. Diligence in the brain means studying hard and thinking hard; Hand clothing means taking notes while reading. Every time he reads the works of the ancients, he encounters wonderful fragments, and Guan always extracts them into his little book; When you encounter an opinion that you think is wrong, add a comment on it to explain why you think it is wrong; When he encounters a problem that he can't figure out, he also records it at any time and asks people who understand it. Zhang Xuecheng's study really achieved the goal of learning from the old and learning from the new.

Later, he wrote a very famous historical work, General Meaning of Literature and History, many chapters of which came from his usual reading notes.

2. Tong Dizhou's diligent example.

Academician of China Academy of Sciences, biologist and educator, one of the founders of experimental embryology research in China. He used to be the vice president of Shandong University, the first director of Institute of Oceanography of China Academy of Sciences, the vice president of China Ocean and Lake Society, the head of biology department of China Academy of Sciences, the vice president of China Academy of Sciences, the vice president of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the head and professor of zoology department of Shandong University.

Tong Dizhou is a famous biologist in China and an internationally renowned scientist. He has been engaged in experimental embryology for nearly half a century and is the main founder of experimental embryology in China.

Tong Dizhou was born in a remote mountain village in Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province. Because of his poor family, he studied cultural knowledge with his father since childhood and didn't enter school until 17 years old.

When he was in middle school, he studied very hard because of his poor foundation, and his average score at the end of the first semester was only 45 points. The school ordered him to drop out of school or repeat the grade. After his repeated requests, the school agreed to let him try out with his class for one semester.

Since then, he has been with the "street lamp": at dawn, he reads a foreign language under the street lamp; After turning off the lights at night, he learns to review himself under the street lamp. Many things happen. At the end of the term, his average score reached more than 70, and he also got 100 in geometry. This incident made him realize a truth: I can do what others can do through hard work. There is no genius in the world, genius is bought with labor. After that, it became his motto.

After graduating from college, he went to Belgium to study abroad. During his study in Tong Dizhou, he studied hard and was eager to learn, and was well received by his teachers. After receiving his doctorate, he returned to the disaster-stricken motherland and conducted scientific research under extremely difficult conditions. Without electric lights, they cut and separate eggs with natural light under a microscope in a dark yard; There is no glassware for cultivating embryos, so we use coarse porcelain pottery wine glasses instead, and the micro-dissector used is just a very thin glass filament pulled by ourselves; The materials used in the experiment are all frog eggs collected from the field. In this simple "laboratory", Tong Dizhou and his colleagues have completed many papers on the developmental ability of golden croaker eggs and the analysis of the ciliary movement mechanism of frog embryos.

After liberation, Tong Dizhou, as the vice president of Shandong University, studied the development law of Wenchang fish eggs, which played an important role in biological evolution, and made great achievements. In his later years, he cooperated with Professor Niu Manjiang of Templeton University in the United States to study the relationship between nucleus and cytoplasm. They extracted a nucleic acid from the cytoplasm of crucian carp eggs and injected it into the fertilized eggs of goldfish. As a result, a descendant with the characteristics of both goldfish and crucian carp appeared, and the tail fin of this goldfish changed from double tail to single tail. This creative achievement belongs to the advanced level in the world.

3. A celebrity story that diligence can make up for one's shortcomings: Mei Lanfang.

Mei Lanfang, a famous Chinese opera performance artist, once said: I am a clumsy artist, and I don't have enough talent, so I have to study hard on my own.

In fact, what he said is absolutely right. When Mei Lanfang was young, she went to learn drama from a teacher. The teacher said that he has a pair of dead fish eyes and is dull and dull. He is not drama material at all and refuses to accept him. However, the lack of talent not only did not discourage Mei Lanfang, but made him more diligent. He feeds pigeons, looks up at the sky every day, and follows the flying pigeons with his eyes. He keeps goldfish and looks down at the bottom of the water every day. His eyes followed the goldfish swimming in the water, looking for a shadow.

After years of unremitting efforts, Mei Lanfang's eyes have finally become like clear autumn water, sparkling and affectionate.

4. Song Lian-a model of diligence in ancient times.

Song Lian, a famous essayist and scholar in Ming Dynasty, was fond of learning since childhood. He was not only knowledgeable, but also wrote excellent articles, and was praised by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as the "head of the founding civil servants". Song Lian loves reading very much, and those who don't understand always get to the bottom of it.

Once, in order to find out a problem, Song Lian walked dozens of miles in the snow to consult Ji Meng, a teacher who had stopped accepting students, but the teacher was not at home. Undaunted, Song Lian visited the teacher again a few days later, but the teacher didn't see him. Because of the cold weather, Song Lian and her companions were freezing, and Song Lian's toes were frostbitten. Song Lian was rescued when he fell into a snow pit during his third solo visit. When Song Lian almost fainted in front of the teacher's house, the teacher was moved by his sincerity and patiently answered Song Lian's questions.

Later, in order to gain more knowledge, Song Lian visited many teachers and became a famous essayist.