Struggle Example 1
Sima Guang was not only witty, brave and honest, but also studied hard. He started reading when he was 6 years old. At first, he did not understand the knowledge he learned and could not remember it no matter how hard he memorized it. His father told him: Reading can’t just be memorizing, you have to use your brain more to understand the meaning.
As a result, Sima Guang always tried to figure out the meaning when he was reading. Sometimes he was still thinking about the books he had read before while playing. Every time Sima Guang read a book, he would read it over and over again and ponder it carefully until he understood it all. In this way, his studies progressed very quickly.
As a boy, Sima Guang could recite "Zuo Zhuan" fluently and understand the gist of it. Once, the great writer Fan Zhongyan visited Sima's house. He heard that Sima Guang was smart and intelligent, so he wanted to test it out. He first asked Sima Guang to recite the article "Zhou Zhengjiao" in "Zuo Zhuan". This article mainly describes the historical allusion of Zhou and Zheng during the Spring and Autumn Period when they sent hostages to each other in order to form a good relationship. It has a profound meaning.
Sima Guang recited the full text fluently in front of Fan Zhongyan, word for word, and Fan Zhongyan was secretly amazed. Then, Sima Guang also commented on the article: "The exchanges between the two countries should be based on trust. If trust is not from the heart, it will be useless even if the hostages are exchanged. If both parties are based on trust, there will be no hostages, and the two countries will The relationship will not be alienated."
Fan Zhongyan finished listening to these words. He was even more impressed with Sima Guang.
Struggle Example 2
Rice was born on November 14, 1954, in Birmingham, USA. He is called Kandi. My grandfather was a cotton farmer. Later he went to college and became a pastor. and established a church in Birmingham. Her father, John Rice, took charge of the church after obtaining a master's degree in theology. By the time Rice was born, their black family already had a certain social status.
Racism was very serious in Birmingham at that time. The city only has schools that white children can attend, theaters, and libraries that only white children can attend. And black families are targeted with bullets. She grew up smoothly under the protection and education of her family. Her family has a staunch belief: Black children can only be equal if they are twice as good as white children, and they can surpass each other only if they are three times better than white children.
Her parents told her: "You may not be able to buy a hamburger in a restaurant because of your skin color, but if you work hard, you may become the president of the United States." She insisted on her parents' judgment. She works very hard to be twice as good and she studies well. Kandi skipped grades in both the first and seventh grades. Her family takes every aspect to ensure that their children are not harmed by racism.
His father would rather they go home to use the toilet than use segregated public facilities. Rice recalled her childhood experience this way: Birmingham was eccentric and segregated, but the black community had built its own world. I took ballet classes, etiquette classes, studied French.
Until 1964, her father found a job at Stillman College. Later, he was accepted by the University of Denver, and his family moved to Denver, completely leaving the south where racial discrimination was serious. Her father later served as vice president of the University of Denver. My mother is a piano teacher, and my aunt has a doctorate in literature. At the age of 13, she entered St. Mary's College, a desegregated school, for the first time.
Example 3 of Struggle
One day, Liu Gongquan and several friends held a "book meeting".
At this time, an old man selling tofu saw the few words he wrote, "I know how to write Feifeng family, and I dare to praise it in front of others." He felt that the child was too proud, so he frowned and said: "This handwriting is not very good. It's like my tofu. It's limp and has no muscles or bones. Is it still worth praising in front of others?" Upon hearing this, Xiao Gongquan said unhappily: "You have the ability. Write a few words and let me see."
The old man smiled brightly and said: "I don't dare, I don't dare, I am a rough man and I can't write well with my feet. They all write much better than you! If you don’t believe it, go to Huajing City and have a look.” The next day, Xiao Gongquan got up early and went to Huajing City alone. As soon as he entered Huajing City, he saw many people gathered under a big locust tree.
He squeezed into the crowd and saw a thin, black old man with no arms, sitting on the ground with bare feet, his left foot pressing the paper, and his right foot holding a pen. He was writing couplets freely and freely. The handwriting resembles a galloping horse and a dancing dragon and phoenix, winning bursts of applause from the onlookers.
Xiao Gongquan knelt down in front of the old man with a plop and said, "I would like to become your teacher. Please tell me the secret of writing..." The old man hurriedly picked up Xiao Gongquan with his feet and said: "I am a lonely person. I was born without hands and had to rely on my feet to make a living. How can I be an example to others?" He wrote a few words on his right foot: "Write eight jars of water, and the inkstone will dye the waterlogged pond black; win hundreds of parents, and only dragons and phoenixes will fly." Liu Gongquan kept the old man's words in mind, and worked hard to practice calligraphy from then on. Thick calluses formed on my hands, and my clothes were mended layer after layer. After hard training, Liu Gongquan finally became a famous calligrapher in my country.
Example 4 of Struggle
British physicist Stephen Hawking founded a new theory of the universe and wrote books such as "A Brief History of Time". He is known as "the most powerful person in the world today." The most outstanding theoretical physicist since Einstein."
He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 1963, and doctors thought he had only 2 years to live. However, he has persisted until now, achieved outstanding achievements, and gained unanimous respect from the academic community and the public. This is closely related to his strong will and tenacious vitality.
In 1970, Hawking had to use a wheelchair. It has been more than 40 years since then. However, he has always persisted in physics research, and even after losing the ability to speak, he still relies on machines to work. He Xiangtao, professor of the Department of Astronomy at Beijing Normal University, attended Hawking's academic lectures in the early 1980s. At that time, Hawking's condition was already very serious and it was inconvenient to communicate with others, but he always persisted in his struggle and studied hard.
Dix, a friend of Hawking’s in college, said: “When everything Hawking loved was lost, he not only lived strong, but also lived great. What he brought to people was not just science. Wisdom, and the most precious human spirit of ceaseless struggle.”
When I was studying, I had a clearer understanding of myself. My background really couldn’t provide me with much in terms of material things. I learned very early that there is no need to compare with these things, and I will not feel inferior.
Struggle Example 5
When he was a freshman in high school, in order to improve his English scores, He Jiang bought an English version of "Gone with the Wind". In the end, the entire blank page of the book was almost filled with notes. Teachers often use He Jiang as an example to explain the principle of "the stupid bird flies first".
Harvard is a place where great people come out in large numbers. When He Jiangcai came, he was not very confident. But it happened to be this lack of confidence that encouraged He Jiang to get in touch with and understand him more. At the same time, he also discovered what He Jiang’s strengths were and tapped into He Jiang’s potential.
He Jiang has always believed in a point of view: you can take yourself from one original circle to another through reading. Perhaps only when people step out of their original vision space can they truly realize the vastness of the world.