During the Warring States Period, Su Qin was so tired that he studied day and night that he stabbed himself in the leg with an awl to keep his head clear. In order to prevent himself from falling asleep while studying, Sun Jing of Han Dynasty tied his hair to the beam with a rope, and he would be woken up as long as he dozed off. This is the story of "stabbing the stock and hanging the beam" in history.
A hole was drilled in the wall to get light from the neighbor's house.
Che Yin, Sun Kang and Kuang Heng in the Jin Dynasty were so poor that they couldn't even afford to buy oil for lighting. In the summer night, Che Yin made a small pocket with gauze, caught a few fireflies and put them in, reading by the light of fireflies; Sun Kang sat in the snow on a cold winter night, studying hard through the reflection of snow; Kuang Heng cut a small hole in the wall and "stole" a little light from his neighbor's house to read. These are the stories told by the idioms "A firefly reflects snow" and "Digging a wall to steal light".
Mo Chi
Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, practiced calligraphy hard since childhood. Every time he finishes writing, he goes to the pond in front of his house to wash his brush. After a long time, a pool of clear water turned into a pool of ink. Later, people called this pond "Mo Chi". Through diligent study and hard practice, Wang Xizhi finally became a famous calligrapher, known as the "book saint".
Helen Keller has a book. Have you read it? The name of this book is The Story of Diligence and Learning. There are many stories about celebrities' hard work in this book, and I will tell one of them: I believe everyone knows Helen Keller, right? She is a famous American woman writer. When she was a child, she was seriously ill, which made her blind and deaf. When Helen was seven years old, her parents hired a teacher to help her with her study. However, Helen can't see or hear. How does she learn? So the teacher thought of a way: first give her a doll to play with, and then write the word doll on her palm to let Helen know what a doll is. Therefore, Helen soon fell in love with this learning method. Since then, Helen has studied like this. She remembered them one by one. Over time, she learned many words. You can think about what difficulties Helen has to overcome as a deaf and blind child. But she was not afraid of difficulties, studied life with amazing perseverance, and eventually became a world-famous writer. Now, people's living conditions and learning conditions are much better, so we don't have to "steal the beam to replace the column" any more, let alone imitate the practice of "hanging the beam with thorns". But the spirit of the ancients is worth studying. We are all healthy people, much better than Helen Keller. As long as we learn not to be afraid of difficulties, not to give up halfway, to study hard and to be successful, we will certainly succeed.
Broken Arrow
If you don't believe in your will, you'll never be a general.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a father and son went to war. The father became a general and the son was just a pawn. Another horn sounded, the drums roared, and my father solemnly raised an quiver with an arrow in it. The father solemnly said to his son, "This is the treasure arrow at home. It is extremely powerful when you carry it with you, but you must never take it out. "
This is an extremely delicate quiver, made of thick cowhide, inlaid with faint shiny copper edges, and look at the arrow's exposed tail. You can tell at a glance that it is made of fine peacock feathers. The son was beaming and greedily speculated about the appearance of the arrow, as if the sound of the arrow whizzed past his ear, and the enemy commander fell off his horse and died. Sure enough, the son with the treasure arrow is heroic and invincible. When the trumpet sounded, the son could no longer resist the heroic spirit of victory and completely abandoned his father's words. A strong desire drove him to shout and pull out his treasure arrow, trying to find out.
Suddenly he was shocked. A broken arrow, there is a broken arrow in the quiver. I've been fighting with a broken arrow in my ass! My son broke out in a cold sweat, as if the house had lost its pillar in an instant and collapsed. The result is self-evident, and my son died tragically in the disorderly army. Blowing away the misty smoke, my father picked up the broken arrow and spat heavily: "If you don't believe in your will, you will never be a general."
How stupid it is to pin victory or defeat on a precious arrow, and how dangerous it is for a person to give the core and handle of life to others! For example, pin your hopes on children; Put happiness on her husband; Put your life safety on the unit ... hint: you are an arrow. If you want to make it tough, if you want to make it sharp, if you want to make it go through a hundred paces and hit a hundred shots, you can only sharpen it and save it.
The value of life
Don't let yesterday's depression cover up tomorrow's dreams! At a seminar, a famous speaker held a $20 bill in his hand and didn't make an opening speech. Facing the 200 people in the meeting room, he asked, "Who wants this $20?"
Put one hand up. He went on to say, "I want to give this $20 to one of you, but before that, please allow me to do one thing." As he spoke, he crumpled up the money and asked, "Who wants more?" There are people holding hands. He added, "Well, what if I do this?" He threw the money on the ground, stepped on it and ran it over with his foot. Then he picked up the dirty and wrinkled bill. "Who wants it now?" Someone still raised their hands. "My friends, you had a very meaningful lesson. No matter how I treat that bill, you still want it, because it hasn't depreciated, and it's still worth 20 dollars. On the road of life, we will be knocked down, bullied or even crushed by our own decisions or adversity countless times. We feel as if we are worthless. But no matter what happens, or what will happen, you will never lose value in the eyes of God. In his view, dirty or clean, dressed neatly or sloppy, you are still priceless. "
Tip: the value of life lies not in what we do, nor in who we make friends with, but in ourselves! We are unique-never forget this!