1. Nobel

On September 3, 1864, a series of deafening loud noises suddenly erupted in the quiet suburbs of Stockholm, and billowing smoke rushed into the sky in an instant. A stream of flames shot straight up. In just a few minutes, a tragedy occurred.

When the frightened people rushed to the scene of the accident, they saw that a factory that originally stood here was gone, and the ruthless fire engulfed everything. Next to the fire, stood a young man in his 30s. The sudden tragedy and excessive stimulation had made his face turn pale and his whole body was trembling. This young man who survived the catastrophe was to be the great chemist who later became famous throughout the ages. Home Nobel.

Nobel watched helplessly as the experimental factory for nitroglycerin dynamite he created was reduced to ashes. People found five bodies from the rubble, one of which was his lively and cute little brother who was studying in college, and the other four were also close assistants who worked with him day and night. The five burnt corpses were too horrible to look at.

Nobel’s mother was devastated when she learned the tragic news of her youngest son’s tragic death. The elderly father suffered a cerebral hemorrhage due to excessive stimulation and has been paralyzed since then. However, Nobel did not waver in the face of failure and great pain.

After the tragedy, the police authorities immediately sealed off the scene and strictly prohibited Nobel from restoring its factory. People avoided him like the plague, and no one was willing to rent land for him to conduct such dangerous experiments.

This series of setbacks did not deter Nobel. A few days later, people discovered that a huge flat-bottomed barge appeared on Lake Malalun, far away from the city. There was no cargo on the barge, but it was filled with various equipment. A young man was concentrating on a task. A mysterious experiment. He is Nobel who was driven away by the local residents after the big explosion!

Fearless courage often scares away even death. In the frightening experiment, Nobel did not die together with his barge, but after many experiments, he invented the detonator. The invention of the detonator was a major breakthrough in explosives. Then, he established explosives companies in Hamburg, Germany and other places.

For a time, the explosives produced by Nobel became a hot commodity. A steady stream of orders came in from all over the world, and Nobel's wealth increased day by day. However, Nobel's success did not escape setbacks.

Unfortunate news came one after another: In San Francisco, a train carrying explosives exploded due to concussion, and the train was blown to pieces; a famous factory in Germany died due to a collision while transporting nitroglycerin. The explosion turned the entire factory and nearby houses into ruins.

In Panama, a ship loaded with nitroglycerin exploded due to turbulence while sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, and the entire ship was buried in the sea...

Faced with the ensuing disasters Despite disasters and difficulties, Nobel was not intimidated, overwhelmed, or depressed. His perseverance and perseverance made him never look back and persevere in his chosen goal.

On the road of struggle, he has become accustomed to being with death day and night. Nobel stepped on the setbacks and won great success. He obtained 355 patent invention rights in his lifetime. He used his huge wealth to create the Nobel Prize in Science, which is regarded by the scientific community as a supreme honor.

2. The pride of Helen Keller as a disabled person

American blind and deaf female writer and educator Helen Keller lost her vision and hearing due to illness when she was one and a half years old. For ordinary people, it is unimaginable and unbearable pain. However, Helen did not give in to fate. With the teacher's education and help, she overcame the disability with her strong perseverance, learned to speak, "obedient" with her fingers and mastered 5 kinds of writing.

At the age of 24, she graduated cum laude from the famous Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University. From then on, she devoted her whole life to the cause of benefiting the blind and deaf people in the world. She has been praised and commended by the governments and people of many countries.

In 1959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign.

Her autobiographical work "The Story of My Life" has become a classic work of English literature and has been translated into many languages ??and widely distributed.

3. Failure to write a masterpiece (setbacks can temper people's will)

Pu Songling was born in Shandong in the early Qing Dynasty. Due to the prevalence of bribery and fraud in the examination hall at that time, he failed in all four examinations. But he was not pessimistic and disappointed because of this. He determined to write a "book of loneliness and anger". He carved a couplet on the copper ruler used to press the paper:

If there is a will, things will come true. If the cauldron sinks the boat, a hundred and two Qin passes will eventually belong to Chu; if you work hard, God will not let you down; if you lie down and taste the courage, three thousand crossings will be achieved. Jia can swallow Wu. Pu Songling used this to warn and encourage himself, and finally wrote a literary masterpiece - "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".

4. Jules Verne

The famous 19th century French science fiction novelist Jules Verne's first work "Five Weeks in a Balloon" voted 15 times in a row None of them were appreciated by any publishing house, and it was only the 16th submission that was accepted. The American writer Jack London initially submitted his manuscript, but no publisher was willing to publish it, so he had to work hard.

Later, his "Northern Story" was picked up by a discerning Western Monthly magazine, and he became famous in one fell swoop. When the famous Danish fairy tale writer Andersen's debut novel came out, some people knew that he was the son of a shoemaker, so they attacked his work as "a continuum of words", "ignoring grammar", and "understanding rhetoric".

But he was not discouraged, kept writing, and finally became famous. After the publication of "Idle Time" written by the British poet Byron when he was 19 years old, some people scolded him as "bloody" and said that he "expressed his feelings on a lifeless swamp." However, Byron did not retreat, but responded to the slanderer with better poetry.

5. Gao Shiqi

Gao Shiqi is a popular science writer in my country. When he was studying abroad, during an experiment, a glass bottle containing a cultured encephalitis virus broke and the virus invaded his cerebellum. This left a legacy of physical disability. He endured the torture of the virus and completed the entire doctoral program in bacteriology at the University of Chicago.

After returning to China, he dragged his half-paralyzed body to Yan'an to work. After liberation, his condition worsened and he had difficulty speaking and moving. He even needed help from others to open and close his eyes. However, he still created with an amazing spirit of hard work and wrote more than 1 million words of works. Someone asked him if it was hard, and he smiled and said, "No! Because I struggle every day, and fighting is endless fun."