Ideal

In July 2008, at the U.S. Swimming Olympic Trials, 24-year-old Eric finally qualified for the Beijing Olympics that he had dreamed of. However, whether or not to participate has become a problem. It turned out that he was diagnosed with testicular cancer during an examination in June. After getting the doctor's opinion that the cancer cells would not spread for the time being, Eric decided to compete. "The Olympic Games is my lifelong pursuit. I think I may never forget the day I walked onto the Olympic swimming field, no matter how many days I have left to live. The Olympic dream is higher than life."

Learn to use it : "One world, one dream". Olympic dreams are higher than life. The Olympic dream is a lifelong pursuit for many people!

★Tao Zhiming, an 80-year-old man who lives in Building 2, Dongfeng Village, Dadukou District, Chongqing, started taking self-study exams at the age of 58. As a senior candidate, the difficulty of self-study of various courses is self-evident. According to Mr. Tao Zhiming's recollection, the goal he set for himself at the beginning was to complete 17 courses within 4 years. Three years later, he failed to pass any of the subjects he applied for, but the old man never thought of giving up. From the 4th year onwards, Mr. Tao Zhiming began to sum up his learning experience. He passed two courses that year. The most difficult one among all the courses was "Introduction to Natural Science". He took the exam 7 times in a row before he succeeded. In April 2002, 77-year-old Tao Zhiming finally received his college diploma after 18 years of hard work.

Learn to apply: Without a tireless enterprising spirit and an indomitable perseverance, no matter how good the dream is, it will be difficult to realize it.

★There is a rule at the University of Wisconsin in the United States: professors must be forced to retire when they reach the age of 70. The reason is that at the age of 70, he no longer has the energy and physical strength to do research or teaching. In 1943, Dr. Dege, a professor of botany at the school, was 70 years old. Although he loved his career, he had to say goodbye to everything he missed. Dege has always had a dream deep in his heart, which is to develop a specific medicine to save those who are tortured by the disease. Although he has retired, he does not want to retire his dream. Soon after, Derge was hired by the pharmaceutical factory of Ridley Laboratories as a consultant and performed independent research. Two years passed and he got nothing. But he still didn't give up hope, because the dream in his heart was still calling to him. After many experiments, he finally isolated an antibiotic that can control more than 50 serious diseases. This antibiotic is the famous chlortetracycline.

Learn to use it: Although dreams are good, the road to realizing them is very difficult and bumpy. To make your dreams come true, you must have the strong will and determination to make them come true.

★The famous fairy tale master Andersen once dreamed of becoming a playwright when he was young. For this dream, he left home and went to Copenhagen alone. He was helpless and homeless, but he did not give up. In 1835, he tried to write several fairy tales, which were very popular among children. After that, he changed his original dream, and becoming a fairy tale master became his new dream. Later, he wrote many famous fairy tales such as "The Daughter of the Sea" and "The Ugly Duckling", and became recognized as the world's master of fairy tales.

Learn to use: Dreams sometimes require a turn. If you keep persisting, it may be a dead end; if you turn a corner and persist, it may lead to a turning point.

★Many years ago, a 10-year-old Italian boy worked in a factory in Naples. He always wanted to be a singer, but his first teacher said: "You can't sing, you are tone-deaf, and your songs are just like the wind blowing the blinds." After returning home, he was very sad and Crying all this to his mother, a poor peasant woman. The mother put her arms around him and said softly: "My child, you are actually very talented in music. Listen to it, your singing today is much better than yesterday's music. Mom believes you will become an excellent singer. "..." After hearing these words, the child felt much better. Later, the child became a famous opera singer of that era. His name is Enrique Caruso.

Learn to apply: When faced with children’s dreams, parents should provide affirmation and encouragement so that the dreams can take root in their children’s hearts. Make it clear that realizing your dreams requires hard work and sweat.

Struggle

Fok Ying-tung’s journey

(Struggle led him to success)

Fok Ying-tung, a famous real estate tycoon in Hong Kong.

But who knew that Mr. Huo Yingdong’s career was started step by step by a coolie “worth seventy cents”? The poor family background in childhood and the ups and downs of life in adulthood tempered Huo Yingdong's perseverance and cultivated his fighting character of self-improvement, courage to enterprising, and the courage to fight.

During World War II, when the Japanese were expanding the airport, he worked as a coolie, earning seven cents and half a pound of rice rations per day. At that time, he only ate a bowl of porridge and a piece of rice cake every day and was so hungry that he felt dizzy. After the war, Huo Yingdong devoted himself to the transportation industry. After the Korean War broke out, he started the shipping industry and the business was very prosperous. Fok Yingdong was not satisfied with the achievements he had made in the transportation industry, and began to enter the real estate industry. From then on, real estate became the basis for his wealth.

The Diligent Mendeleev

(achieving goals through struggle)

The outstanding Russian chemist Mendeleev devoted his life to chemical research and worked tirelessly , fruitful. Due to his poor life and overworking, Mendeleev became physically exhausted during his college years and was admitted to the hospital. He secretly brought books, paper and pen into the ward and never stopped studying for a day. In his later years, he often fell ill, his eyesight declined to the point of semi-blindness, and his hands trembled so much that he could not write. However, he still dictated and wrote his autobiography and organized his own writings. Three weeks before his death, he participated in discussions about a plan to explore the North Pole by airship. It was with this spirit of continuous struggle that Mendeleev discovered the periodic law of elements and published more than 500 scientific works, including thousands of pages.

Hawking in a wheelchair

(The meaning of life lies in struggle)

British physicist Stephen Hawking created a new theory of the universe and wrote " "A Brief History of Time" and other books, he is known as "the most outstanding theoretical physicist in the world today after Einstein." He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 1963 and doctors gave him only two years to live. However, he has persisted until now, achieved outstanding achievements, and gained unanimous respect from the academic community and the public. This is closely related to his strong will and tenacious vitality. In 1970, Hawking had to use a wheelchair. It has been more than 30 years since then. However, he has always persisted in physics research, and even after losing the ability to speak, he still relies on machines to work.

He Xiangtao, professor of the Department of Astronomy at Beijing Normal University, attended Hawking's academic lectures in the early 1980s. At that time, Hawking's condition was already very serious and it was inconvenient to communicate with others, but he always persisted in his struggle and studied hard. . Dicks, a friend of Hawking's in college, said: "When everything Hawking loved was lost, he not only lived strong, but also lived great. What he brought to people was not only the wisdom of science, but also the most important thing about mankind. The valuable spirit of constant struggle"

It took ten years to write "Sandu Fu"

(Strive to perfect oneself)

Zuo Si was born in a humble family in the Western Jin Dynasty. , has been slow to react since childhood, looks ugly, and is slow to speak. I didn't succeed in learning calligraphy or playing the piano. His father said to his friend, "This child has poor intelligence and is stupid." Zuo Si was unconvinced and studied hard to make up for his weakness with diligence. He began to prepare "Sandu Fu", and he was thinking about the article while eating and walking. There is even a pen and paper in the toilet at home. Once he thinks of a good sentence, he will write it down at any time. At that time, Lu Ji, a talented man who was working in Luoyang, was also preparing "Ode to Three Capitals". When he heard about this, he sneered and said: "There is an ugly guy here who wants to write "Ode to Three Capitals". The articles he writes are only worthy of covering my wine jar." Zuo Si was unswerving and asked to be the secretary in charge of national books and classics, taking the opportunity to study hard. He accumulated time and money, and finally spent ten years writing "Sandu Fu". High-ranking officials and dignitaries competed to copy it, and for a while, "paper was expensive in Luoyang".

Let struggle become a habit of life

(Struggle requires persistence)

The famous British novelist John Creasey devoted himself to literary creation when he was young, but he He has no college degree and no capable relatives to reach out to. He submitted articles to all publishing houses and literary journals in the UK, but received 743 rejection slips. Despite this, he continued to create. He once said to a friend: "Yes, I am undergoing the test of a large number of failures that people can't believe. If I give up, all the rejection slips will become meaningless. But once I succeed, every rejection slip will The value of the manuscript will be recalculated."

Later, his work finally came out, and his potential creative talent surged like a river, unstoppable.

By the time he died at the age of 75 in 1973, he had written 564 books in 43 years, totaling more than 40 million words. He himself is 1.78 meters tall, and the stack of books he wrote exceeds two meters.

Success is never easy. If you want to succeed, you must be a long-distance runner who is not afraid of anything. You must keep striving and never give up halfway.

Truth requires persistence

One day, in class, the philosopher Socrates took out an apple, stood in front of the podium and said: "Please smell the smell in the air!"

A student raised his hand and replied: "I smell it, it's the fragrance of apples!" Socrates walked off the podium, slowly walked past each student holding an apple, and exhorted : "Everyone, smell it carefully. Is there the fragrance of apples in the air?"

At this time, half of the students had raised their hands. Socrates returned to the podium and repeated the question. This time, all but one student raised their hands. Socrates walked up to the student and asked: "Did you really smell nothing?" The student affirmed: "I really didn't smell anything!" At this time, Socrates said to everyone Announced: "He is right, because this is a fake apple." This student was the later famous philosopher Plato.

Many times, we are close to the truth, but due to lack of self-confidence, we leave the truth. Plato's courage to insist on truth stems from his firm belief in facts. The road to the truth will not be smooth sailing. If we want not to be fooled by illusions, the key depends on whether we can persist in the truth to the end.

Cui Qi’s “shortcut”

Cui Qi won the Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.” He is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. It is rare for an engineering professor to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

One of Cui Qi's favorite mottos is: "Only about hard work, not about harvest."

In December 1999, Cui Qi held a discussion with college students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on the issue of talent development. When they communicated, they said sincerely that many of the people they have come into contact with during the 30 years of teaching are science students who grew up in China. They often lack self-confidence and often want to know what kind of gains they will get before they do something. On the contrary, European students have an adventurous spirit. As long as they think it is interesting, good and challenging, they will do it steadily. In the conversation with students after the lecture, college students most wanted to get a "shortcut" to success from this world-class scientific master. However, Professor Cui Qi's answer from beginning to end was the word "persistence."

Edison's perseverance

Edison is known as the "King of Inventions" by the world. He provided about 2,000 large and small inventions to mankind in his lifetime. The secret of his success is "diligence" and "perseverance". In order to find heat-resistant materials inside the light bulb, he tried about 6,000 fiber materials and finally found carbonized bamboo filaments. Although the first bamboo filament lamp was lit for 1,200 hours. But he continued to explore, persevere, and improve, and finally developed the tungsten lamp, which took 20 years.

In order to transform the easily corrosive sulfuric acid battery into a nickel-iron induction battery, he began to conduct experiments unremittingly in 1900. It took him 10 years and nearly 50,000 experiments before he succeeded. .

Famous aphorisms related to ideals, struggle, and perseverance:

I discovered that it was during those years when life caused me the greatest humiliation and pain that I After enduring so many hardships and hardships, my courage and tenacity to achieve my goals have been particularly high. ——Gorky "How I Study"

As I rush to the dangerous mission, please give me strength, honor me with pain, and help me climb the difficult heart that contributes to you every day. ——Tagore's "Collection of Thoughts on Travels"

With indomitable energy, he becomes the enemy of the lion with its teeth and claws. (Shakespeare's "Henry IV Part 1")

A virtuous and courageous person, an upright person will never be timid. ——Shakespeare's "Tit for Tat"

Inspiring loyalty and courage can turn a spinning rod into a spear. ——Shakespeare's "Cymbeline"

How can a man who is full of strength and leaps of strength be a slave of tenderness? Only with true character can he be considered truly brave. ——Shakespeare's "The Humiliation of Lucrece" Stubborn people are noble.

Only brave and strong people have only one kind of excitement, one kind of temperament, and one kind of morality. ——Hugo "Labour at Sea"

Be brave and follow the path that you think is right and reasonable. ——Romain Rolland, "Mother and Son"

A brave person is only afraid of what should be feared and not of what should not be feared. ——Tolstoy's "Attack"

The prosperous age of peace and prosperity only breeds a group of cowards, and hardship is always the mother of strength. (Shakespeare's "Cymbeline")

A hard oak tree can be chopped down with a small axe. Although the ax is small, if you keep chopping, the tree will eventually be chopped down. ——Shakespeare's "Henry VI Part 2"

The raging sea is not as strong as us, the lion is not as confident as us, the rocks are not as firm as us, no, the cruel death is not as decisive as us. ——Shakespeare's "King John"

Abundant energy and tenacious determination have created many miracles. —— Dickens' "Bleak House"