Examples of famous people who dare to try

1. Zhongli

During the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, a great plague broke out in Kuaiji, killing more than 10,000 people within a few days. Faced with this tragic scene, the county magistrate Zhongliyi couldn't sleep or eat. He kept blaming himself: "The people are suffering and I can't save them. How can I be a parent?" Regardless of the risk of infection, Zhongliyi went to condolences to the patients and their families one after another. , and ordered to spend heavily to recruit doctors to develop new drugs.

A few days later, the new medicine was developed, but I didn’t dare give it to the patient right away because it contained some poisonous herbs and I didn’t know if it would cause any side effects. At this time, Zhong Liyi said: "Isn't this very simple? Just let me try."

After saying that, regardless of everyone's efforts to stop him, he reached out to grab the medicine and drank it. After he drank it, he showed no signs of poisoning, so the medicine was distributed. Soon, the plague was controlled, and Zhong Liyi's frown relaxed.

2. Edison

Edison can be said to be the greatest inventor of the 19th century. His name is associated with a series of brilliant achievements. But behind his success, he actually experienced many failed attempts. In 1877, Edison began experiments to reform the arc lamp. In order to achieve satisfactory results in the experiment, he needed to find a filament that could withstand a high temperature of 2,000 degrees and burn for more than 1,000 hours.

Edison began an arduous search process. He conducted 1,600 different experiments and tried a variety of substances. After struggling for nearly five or six months, it turned out that only platinum was suitable. However, platinum is more valuable than gold, so it is simply unrealistic to use it for filament.

Later, he devoted all his efforts to carbonization, and there were more than 6,000 carbonization experiments on plants alone. He made more than 200 notebooks, totaling more than 40,000 pages. It took three years until the first half of 1880 before Edison developed a relatively satisfactory bamboo filament.

3. Haier

I am afraid that no one in China today does not know Haier: Haier air conditioners, Haier refrigerators, Haier washing machines, you can name a lot of Haier appliances in a row. Indeed, Haier is a household name and world-famous today. It has established production bases in Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, and its sales network spans the world.

In 2000, the total global assets reached 16.75 billion yuan, but who could have imagined that its predecessor was a small collective factory on the verge of bankruptcy. In just a dozen years, such earth-shaking changes have taken place. . The secret lies in the fact that Haier people work together, try hard, and keep fighting.

4. Aristotle

Aristotle believed that the speed of falling from a height is proportional to the weight of objects of different weights. The heavier ones must be lighter first. Land. This conclusion was almost 2,000 years old by Galileo's time, and no one had yet publicly doubted it.

Is there a relationship between the speed of an object falling and its weight? After repeated observations, research, and experiments, Galileo discovered that if two objects of different weights are dropped from the same height at the same time, they will fall simultaneously. Land. So Galileo boldly challenged Aristotle's views as a matter of course.

5. Seiji Ozawa

In a conductor competition held in Europe, every conductor was required to conduct the same piece of music. It was the turn of the young Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa. Halfway through the conductor, he suddenly felt that there was an error in the score, making this section of the song sound disharmonious. So he stopped and pointed out the mistake. But every judge firmly insisted that there was nothing wrong with the music score.

Ozawa Seiji resumed command. Reaching that discordant place again, he stopped again. This time he said with certainty: "No, the score must be wrong!" As soon as he finished speaking, the judges all stood up and applauded to congratulate him on winning the competition. It turned out that the music score was indeed a trap carefully designed by the judges.