. Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is a world-famous speaker. His success lies in the fact that he has been practicing eloquence diligently since he was a teenager, and he has done more reading and listening. When he was young, he worked as a farmer, logger, store clerk, postman and land surveyor, etc. In order to become a lawyer, he often walked 30 miles to a court to listen to the defense statements of lawyers and watch how they argued and made gestures. While listening to the loud and impassioned speeches of those politicians and orators, he imitated them. He listened to those traveling evangelists waving their arms and delivering sermons that shook the sky. When he came back, he also imitated their example and practiced his speeches repeatedly in the woods and cornfields. The success of the speech enabled Lincoln to finally become an eloquent lawyer and eventually enter politics.
2. Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, did not like reading when he was a child. One day, when the teacher was not at home, he quietly slipped out to play.
He came to the river at the foot of the mountain and saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle on a stone. Li Bai was very puzzled and asked: "Old woman, what are you doing sharpening the iron pestle?"
The old woman said: "I am grinding the needle." Li Bai asked in surprise: "Oh! Why is the iron pestle so thick?" Can it be ground into a needle?" The old woman said with a smile: "As long as you grind the iron pestle every day, it will become finer and finer. Are you still afraid that it won't be ground into a needle?" After hearing this, the clever Li Bai thought to himself, Feeling ashamed, I turned around and ran back to the bookstore. From then on, he kept in mind the principle that "as long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle" and studied hard.
3. Churchill
Churchill, the British Prime Minister during the Second World War, was an outstanding speaker and was listed as one of the top 10 famous orators in the world. However, when Churchill gave a speech in Parliament for the first time, he suffered a big somersault - when he was halfway through his speech, he suddenly forgot the next part and couldn't remember it. He was so depressed that he had to interrupt his speech and awkwardly Return to your seat. But he was not discouraged, devoted himself to studying speech skills, and often exercised his oral expression skills. Hard work paid off, and Churchill finally became a famous orator and outstanding politician in the 20th century.