Mr. Deng Zhongxia, an early revolutionary in China, set a strict study time for himself when he was studying at Peking University. In order not to be disturbed by others, he simply wrote a "five-minute talk" note and posted it on his desk. After seeing this note, the visiting guests will leave immediately if there is nothing important. Some guests even got inspiration from him. They took the time to study and stopped wasting time.
A celebrity model who cherishes time: Balzac
Balzac has created more than 90 works and created more than 2,000 different types of characters in his 20-year writing career, many of which have become world famous works. His creative schedule is: "Working from midnight to noon, that is, sitting in a round chair 12 hours, trying to revise and create, then proofreading from noon to four o'clock, eating at five o'clock, sleeping at five thirty, and getting up at midnight to work."
A celebrity model who cherishes time: Lu Xun who cherishes time
Lu Xun, a great thinker and writer in China, cherishes time very much. He has a wise saying: "Time is life, wasting other people's time for no reason is actually tantamount to killing people for money."
Lu Xun really cherishes time. All his time is spent drinking coffee and talking about the gaps in work and study. Lu Xun also urged himself to cherish time, study hard and work hard in various forms. When he was in Beijing, he hung a couplet in his bedroom and study, which contained two poems by Qu Yuan, a great poet in ancient China. The first part is "Don't worry when the sun goes down", and the second part is "I'm afraid that the pelican will sing first" (I'm afraid that the cuckoo will call early when she goes again a year later. There is also a picture of Mr. Fujino, Lu Xun's most admired Japanese teacher, hanging on the wall of the study.
Lu Xun wrote in "Flowers in the Evening": "Whenever I am tired at night and want to be lazy, I catch a glimpse of his black and thin face under the light, as if to say something cadence, which suddenly made my conscience discover and increased my courage, so I lit a cigarette and continued to write something that made people feel deeply painful like a gentleman." Lu Xun urged himself to hurry up with this couplet and photo. It is precisely because of this spirit of regarding time as life that Lu Xun extensively dabbled in many fields of natural science and social science during his 56-year-old life journey, and translated more than10 million words in his life, leaving a valuable cultural heritage for future generations.
A famous example of cherishing time: diligent Shakespeare
He cherishes time very much and never gives up his spare time. As a teenager, he attended a local "literature school". After going to school for six years, he just managed to find time. He read thousands of literary books in the school library and recited a lot of wonderful dialogues in poetry scripts.
He was born in a rich family, his father is a mayor, and he likes to go to the theatre. He often invites some troupes to perform in the town. Every time, Shakespeare was fascinated. When there was no performance in town, he asked the children to imitate the characters and plots in the play. He also wrote, directed and acted some things that happened in the town, and showed extraordinary drama talent at an early age.
Later, his father went bankrupt because of investment failure, and 13-year-old Shakespeare embarked on the road of making a living alone. He was a soldier, an apprentice, a bricklayer, a coolie, an aristocratic housekeeper and a rural teacher. In his hurry to support his family, he made a careful observation of various characters and recorded their conversations with great personality, which accumulated material for his later creation. Shakespeare came to London at the age of 22. The strong pursuit of drama led him to find a job as a janitor in a theater. At first, he just showed horses and cars to the dignitaries in the theater. After that, he used the tips he earned to pay some children to help him finish his work, but he still took time out to go to the theater to watch the performance. Slowly, Shakespeare began to play a walk-on and a supporting role.
He is very happy about this, because it allows him to watch the actors' performances more closely on the stage. Later, Shakespeare became a "clue". Hiding in props, while doing his job well, he also took time to record his impression of each actor's performance. Just as Shakespeare became an official actor, the plague began to spread in Europe, thousands of people died and the theater was forced to close. The boss and the actors went out to avoid the plague, but Shakespeare chose to stay and guard the theater. During the two years of extreme economic depression, Shakespeare took time to read a lot of books, sorted out his notes in various periods, revised several plays, and began to write new plays. When Britain's economy recovered and performances flourished again, Shakespeare's plays became very popular and he became the most outstanding actor himself.