At the age of 22, Florence Nightingale was elegant and handsome. She was well-read and full of youthful vitality, and was appreciated by many people in British upper class. This girl of noble birth has a lofty ideal in her heart. She chose a hospital nursing career that no one expected and people generally looked down upon at that time. < P > Her parents were furious about this, and her sisters looked at each other coldly, and her boyfriend who fell in love left him. But the stubborn nightingale's belief is: "I never make excuses, and I will never accept excuses." Despite all the opposition, she did not regard these "objections" as an excuse to give up her ideals, and put on a white coat unswervingly.

in 1854, the Crimean war broke out. This is a war between tsarist Russia's attempt to dominate the world and the contradiction between Britain and France in order to safeguard colonial interests. Due to the poor logistics support ability of the British army, the treatment of the wounded and sick was chaotic, and the spread of cholera caused a large number of deaths of the wounded and sick.

At this time, Nightingale led 38 sisters to the battlefield resolutely. When they put down their luggage, they immediately purchased medicines, established field hospitals, and carefully cared for the wounded and sick. During the day, nightingale braved the bullets to rescue the wounded; In the evening, she let her sisters have a rest, patrol the patients one by one with lanterns, or throw a kind smile, or touch the painful wounds, give encouragement to the desperate and comfort the dying. The wounded got great warmth from nightingale, and even felt that kissing her figure from a distance was a great comfort and happiness.

After just a few months' efforts, the death rate of the wounded and sick dropped from 5% to 2.2%. The soldiers affectionately called her "the goddess of lanterns in Crimea" and "the star of life-saving".

Feeling excuses in a word is often a precursor to failure. If you want to succeed, don't give yourself any excuses, and don't give yourself any soft opportunities. Go ahead.