1. Edison
Edison was working in the laboratory. He handed his assistant an empty glass bulb without a socket and said, "Measure the capacity of the bulb." He Back to work again. After a long time, he asked: "What's the capacity?" He didn't hear the answer. He turned around and saw the assistant holding a soft ruler to measure the circumference and slope of the light bulb, and took the measured numbers and leaned on the table to calculate.
He said: "Time, time, why does it take so much time?" Edison came over, picked up the empty light bulb, filled it with water, handed it to his assistant, and said: "The one inside Pour the water into the measuring cup and tell me its capacity immediately."
The assistant immediately read the number. Edison said: "This is such an easy measurement method. It is accurate and saves time. How could you not think of it? If you still calculate it, wouldn't it be a waste of time?" The assistant blushed. Edison murmured: "Life is too short, too short. Save time and do more things!"
2. Lu Xun
There is one reason for Lu Xun's success The important tip is to cherish your time. When Lu Xun was twelve years old and attending a private school in Shaoxing, his father was seriously ill and his two younger brothers were still young. Lu Xun not only often went to pawnshops and pharmacies, but also had to help his mother with housework. In order not to affect his studies, he had to do a good job Precise timing.
After that, Lu Xun squeezed time almost every day. He said: "Time is like water in a sponge. As long as you squeeze it, there will always be some." Lu Xun had a wide range of interests in reading and also liked writing. He was also deeply interested in folk art, especially legends and paintings.
Because he has dabbled extensively and studied in many aspects, time is indeed very important to him. He was sick all his life, and his working conditions and living environment were not good, but he would work until late at night every day before giving up. ?
3. Studying in Juying?
Che Yin was born in the Jin Dynasty. He was originally a child of a wealthy family. Later, his family fell into decline and he became impoverished. However, he can persevere in the face of adversity. ?Che Yin was very sensible when he was young and could endure hardships and stand hard work. Because he had to help his family with work during the day, he wanted to use the long nights to read more and enrich himself.
However, his family is poor and he has no spare money to buy oil to light a lamp. Is there any way to break through the limitations of objective conditions? At first, he had to recite the contents of the book at night, until one summer night, he saw a few fireflies flying, and little fluorescent lights flashing in the dark night.
So, he came up with a good idea: he caught many fireflies and put them in a small bag sewn with white linen, because the white linen was very thin and could reveal the light of the fireflies. , he hung the cloth bag up and it became a "lighting lamp".
4. Newton cooked his pocket watch
Newton was very attentive in his studies. One day, his friends were treating him to dinner. During the dinner, he remembered a bottle of wine at home, so he told his friends to wait a moment while he went home to get the wine. The friend waited and waited, but did not see Newton coming back, so he had to go and see what was going on.
It turned out that Newton remembered an experiment on his way home. When he got home, he plunged into the laboratory and started doing the experiment, forgetting all about getting wine to entertain his friends.
Another time, he was hungry and boiled eggs to eat, but while thinking about the problem, he put the eggs into the pot. When the problem was solved and he wanted to eat the eggs, he opened the lid and picked up the eggs. It was actually my own pocket watch.
5. Gorky on the book
Gorky, a great writer of the former Soviet Union, Lenin called him "the most outstanding representative of proletarian art." He was born in a carpenter's family during the Tsarist Russia. He lost his father when he was 4 years old and was fostered at his grandmother's house. Because his family was extremely poor, he only attended primary school for two years. He entered the cold "human world" at the age of 10. He worked as an apprentice, a porter, a keeper, and a baker.
He also wandered to southern Russia twice and suffered a miserable life. But he likes reading very much. In any case, he will take advantage of every opportunity to read eagerly in the book. As he said himself: "I threw myself on books like a hungry man on bread." He suffered all the humiliation in order to study.
When I was 10 years old, I worked as an apprentice in a shoe store. I had no money to buy books, so I borrowed books from everywhere to read. The preschoolers at that time were actually slaves: they went to the streets to buy groceries, lit the stove, wiped the floor, washed vegetables and took care of the children... they worked from morning till half-finished every day. After a tiring day, use a homemade lamp to keep reading. The landlady forbade Gorky to study. She also searched for books in the attic and tore them into pieces when she found them.
Because of his study, he was beaten severely by the landlady. In order to read, Gorky could endure anything, even willing to endure torture. He said: "If someone proposes to me: 'Go to the square and beat you with a stick!' I think I can accept this condition." Because Gorky read eagerly throughout his life and worked tirelessly on Through hard work, he wrote a large number of influential works.
6. Galileo was curious and inquisitive
Galileo was a great Italian physicist and astronomer. His contribution to mechanics was the establishment of the law of falling bodies and the discovery of the law of inertia of objects. , the isochronism of pendulum vibration and the law of parabolic motion determine Galileo's principle.
When he was studying at the University of Pisa, he was very curious and often asked questions, such as "Why don't planets move in a straight line?" Some teachers thought he had too many questions. But he never cared, and asked when it was time to ask.
Once, Galileo learned that the mathematician Leach was visiting Pisa, so he prepared many questions to ask Leach. This time it was great. The teacher was tireless in teaching, and the students asked endless questions. Galileo quickly learned knowledge about plane geometry, solid geometry, etc., and had a deep grasp of Archimedes' theorem about levers.
7. Xu Beihong’s patriotic story
After the "July 7th Incident", the Japanese invaders burned, killed and looted everywhere, causing tens of thousands of refugees to flee their hometowns. Xu Beihong thought hard: "How can I contribute to the country, the people, and the Anti-Japanese War?" He decided to hold an art exhibition in Singapore to raise funds and donate to refugees, and at the same time publicize the principles of the Anti-Japanese War to overseas Chinese.
At the end of 1938, he came to Singapore during the hot summer weather. In order to prepare a large number of works to be sold at art exhibitions, I stood in front of the painting desk every day, sweating profusely and working day and night. An overseas Chinese friend dissuaded him from painting day and night. Xu Beihong said: "I am painting for the suffering compatriots in the motherland!"
The suffering day and night made Xu Beihong suddenly fall ill. , there was severe pain in his waist, and he was forced to lie down on the hospital bed. The pain in his back had not yet healed, so he stubbornly picked up the paintbrush again. The exhibition opened as scheduled, and overseas Chinese enthusiastically supported the motherland's war of resistance and competed to buy Xu Beihong's works. After the exhibition, he donated all the huge sum of money from the sale of paintings to the relief of the Nan family. He took no money from it and even paid for the travel expenses himself.
8. Xu Beihong's inspirational painting practice
One day, a foreign student said to Xu Beihong rudely: "Mr. Xu, I understand that Dayang values ??you very much, but don't think that You can become a painter if you enter Dayang's school. You Chinese can't become talented even if you go to heaven for further studies!" Xu Beihong was irritated, but he understood that arguments could not change other people's ignorance and prejudice. Facts must be used. Let them get to know the real Chinese again.
From then on, Xu Beihong worked harder. He is like a tireless horse, galloping day and night, moving forward bravely. The foreign student was very shocked after seeing Xu Beihong's works. He found Xu Beihong, bowed and said: "I admit that the Chinese are very talented. It seems that I have made a mistake. In Chinese, that is, 'I can't see the mountain with my eyes'."
9. Qian Zhongshu wrote the preface on behalf of his father
Qian Zhongshu was admitted to Wuxi Furen Senior High School of the Episcopal Church when he was 18 years old. He often wrote letters for his father Qian Jibo, who dictated and wrote for him, and who wrote for him and wrote articles for him.
Once Qian Zhongshu wrote an epitaph for a large family in the countryside on behalf of his father. Occasionally, he heard his father praising the article to his mother. This was the first time Qian Zhongshu heard his father praising him, and he was so happy that he almost jumped up. Yang Jiang recalled in his later years that Qian Mu's "Introduction to Chinese Studies" was published by the Commercial Press in 1931, and he asked Qian Jibo to write a preface for it.
Qian Jibo asked Qian Zhongshu to ghostwrite it.
After the preface was written, my father did not change a word. When "Introduction to Chinese Studies" was published, no one realized that this preface was ghostwritten by a young man who had just turned 20 years old.
10. Qian Zhongshu’s teenage life
Because his uncle had no sons, according to custom, Qian Zhongshu was adopted to his uncle after he was born. When Zhongshu was four years old, his uncle taught him how to read. When he was six years old, he was sent to Qin's Primary School. Less than half a year later, due to an illness, his uncle asked him to stay at home and stop going to school. Later, when he entered a private school, his uncle found it inconvenient, so he decided to teach Zhong Shu himself.
My uncle went out to drink tea in the morning. He was given one copper to buy shortbread and two coppers to read the novel. Zhongshu often went with his uncle to his aunt's house, which had a large manor. Zhongshu played all day long and missed some of his homework. All his aunt's family smoked heavily and always had midnight meals, leading to an irregular life. When he came back, his father saw that Zhongshu had many bad habits and scolded him, but he never scolded him in front of other children.
Zhongshu was eleven years old and was admitted to Donglin Primary School. His uncle also passed away soon after. Although his father was responsible for his tuition and fees, other expenses could not be covered. He had no homework books, so he used old notebooks that his uncle had stapled up; when the nib of his pen broke, he sharpened bamboo chopsticks to replace it.
Zhongshu was admitted to Taowu Middle School at the age of fourteen. His father taught at Tsinghua University. He was always dissatisfied with Zhongshu's composition. From then on, he studied hard and read a lot of books. Gradually, he could replace his father. Writing letters and poems, my father finally showed a proud smile on his face. ?