After graduating from middle school, Hua Luogeng was forced to drop out of school because he could not afford the tuition. Returning to his hometown, he continued to study and study tenaciously on his own while helping his father work. Soon, he contracted typhoid fever again and was critically ill. He lay in bed for half a year. After recovering from the disease, he was left with a lifelong disability - the joint of his left leg was deformed and he was lame. At that time, he was only 19 years old. In those days of confusion, confusion, and near despair, he thought of Sun Bin who was practicing the Art of War with his legs behind his back. "The ancients could still be disabled physically and mentally. I am only 19 years old, and I have no reason to give up on myself. I want to replace my weak legs with a sound mind!" This is how the young Hua Luogeng tenaciously fights against fate. During the day, he dragged his sick leg, endured the severe pain in the joints, and worked with a cane. At night, he studied by himself under an oil lamp late at night. In 1930, his paper was published in the magazine Science. This paper alarmed Professor Xiong Qinglai, chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University. Later, Tsinghua University hired Hua Luogeng as an assistant. In the Tsinghua campus where famous people gathered, Hua Luogeng worked as an assistant and audited in the mathematics department. He also spent four years studying English, German, and French by himself, and published ten papers. When he was 25 years old, he was already an internationally renowned young scholar.

When encountering difficulties and setbacks, people with self-esteem and confidence can work hard, strive for self-improvement, conquer setbacks and failures, and achieve success amidst setbacks and failures. People who have lost self-esteem often give up on themselves and look down on themselves when they encounter difficulties and setbacks. When people who lack self-confidence encounter difficulties and setbacks, the first thing they think of is that they are in trouble, and thus give up their hard work. Therefore, it is impossible for people without self-esteem and self-confidence to succeed in their careers.

Mao Sui recommended himself, Jingwei reclaimed the sea, Yanzi envoyed Chu, and the food that came was not enough for five pecks of rice. Ji Hongchang also had Ye Ting’s prison song abroad, the story of Zhou Enlai’s handshake

1. Once Beethoven and Goethe were narrating enthusiastically, when the German Empress and the Crown Prince passed by them, took off their hats to them, and greeted them affectionately. Beethoven raised his head as if he saw nothing, but Goethe was flattered. He quickly shook off the dust on his body, straightened his collar, took off his hat, held it in his hand, went up to the queen and bowed down to salute them. Seeing Goethe's groveling look, Beethoven's previous image of the poet as a tall man suddenly collapsed.

2. Han Xin likes to study military affairs and often wears a long sword. On this day, a group of gangsters came to provoke another person. One of them said to Han Xin: "You carry a sword with you all day long, and I don't see you." Use it. If you are really capable, use a sword to kill me. If you are just showing off and don't know how to use a sword, you can crawl between my legs." Han Xin showed the flexibility of a man and leaned down to get past the man. Crawling between his legs, those ignorant idiots thought that Han Xin was cowardly and timid, so they walked away self-righteously.

At the beginning of the 20th century, when Xu Beihong was studying in Europe, he encountered provocation from a foreigner. The foreigner said: "The Chinese are ignorant and are born to be slaves. Even if they are sent to heaven for further study, they will not become talented!" Xu Beihong replied angrily: "Well, I represent my motherland, and you represent yours. When you graduate, you will see who is the talent and who is the idiot!" A year later, Xu Beihong's oil paintings were well received by French artists. After that, he won first place in several competitions. The personal exhibition caused a sensation in the entire Paris art world. Such an amazing achievement is far beyond the reach of that foreigner.

Newton, praised as the "Father of Mechanics", created calculus, discovered the spectrum, and proposed the law of universal gravitation in his twenties. But he did not attribute the credit to himself, but said modestly: "If what I have seen is further than Descartes, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." Darwin, the founder of the "theory of evolution", had a conversation in an interview with the British writer Halton: "Your special achievements?" "No." "Your main shortcomings?" "Do not understand mathematics and new languages, lack of Observation, not good at thinking logically. "What is your academic attitude?" "You are very diligent, but you have not mastered the method of learning."

"Where is the self-esteem and confidence of these two scientists who have made great achievements? "Modility makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind." Humility is a manifestation of self-esteem and self-confidence.

The origin of Parker"

In the 1950s, when Zhou Enlai was talking to an American reporter, the reporter saw a Parker pen in the Prime Minister's Office, and asked proudly with a bit of sarcasm: "Your Excellency, the Prime Minister, is also superstitious about our country's pens. After hearing this, Zhou Enlai said humorously: "This was given to me by a North Korean friend. This friend said to me: "This was used by the US military at the Panmunjom surrender signing ceremony. You can keep it as a souvenir. ! "I think the origin of this pen is very meaningful, so I kept this pen from your country." The American reporter's face turned red to the roots of his ears.

3. A one-sentence movie description

In 1954, Zhou Enlai attended the Geneva Conference and informed the staff to show the participants a color Yue opera "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" piece. In order to enable foreigners to understand Chinese drama films, the staff wrote a 15-page instruction manual and submitted it to Premier Zhou for review. Zhou Enlai criticized the staff: "Don't look at the target, just play the piano to the ox." The staff member said unconvinced: "Showing this kind of movie to foreigners is playing the piano to a bully!"

"It depends on how you play the piano." Zhou Enlai said, "You have to use more than a dozen If you read the instruction manual on the page and play it randomly, I will give you a different way of playing it. You only need to write one sentence on the invitation: "Please enjoy a color opera film, China's "Romeo and Juliet". "After the movie was screened, the audience was mesmerized and burst into applause from time to time.

4. A clever encounter with Mao Zedong

In May 1960, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and his party inspected Changsha , after work, I went for a walk by the river. Looking at the head of Orange Island in the distance, hundreds of boats were vying for water, and thousands of sails were racing. Mao Zedong was so excited that he wrote a couplet: "Orange Island, boats can't go by the island." The linkage is relatively static, the artistic conception is far-reaching, there are three broken sentences, two "thimbles", and "zhou" and "zhou" are homophonic, which makes it extremely difficult to deal with. Mao Zedong said to Zhou Enlai next to him: "Enlai, I have exhausted my talent for a while, so please come. How about the icing on the cake? "Zhou Enlai was quick in thinking and well versed in geography. He understood Changsha within a hundred steps and came up with a wonderful sentence: "Tianxin Pavilion, the pigeon in the pavilion, the pigeon flies in the pavilion but does not fly. "Tianxin Pavilion is a scene in Changsha City, opposite Orange Island. It is neat and smooth, and the whole couplet is integrated. The two great men smiled at each other.

5. August 28, 1973, China* **When the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing, Mao Zedong, who was attending the meeting, was unable to stand due to a leg disease. After the meeting, in order to prevent the delegates from seeing the flaws and worrying about his health, Mao Zedong remained seated and thought. Let the delegates leave first. If the chairman does not leave, the delegates will not leave first. Premier Zhou Enlai, who was careful, saw the chairman's thoughts and broke the deadlock. He said tactfully that Chairman Mao wanted to see everyone leave the venue. Said: “If you don’t leave, I won’t leave either. "In this way, the representatives turned back step by step and reluctantly waved goodbye to the chairman.

Yan Zi envoys to Chu

6. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi and Chu were both big countries. One time, the King of Qi sent his official Yan Zi as an envoy to the State of Chu. The King of Chu, relying on the strength of his country, wanted to take the opportunity to insult Yan Zi and show off the prestige of the Chu State. Knowing that Yan Zi was short in stature, the King of Chu ordered someone to open a gate next to the city gate. When Yan Zi came to the Kingdom of Chu, the King of Chu asked people to close the city gate and let Yan Zi crawl in through the hole. Yan Zi looked at it and said to the receptionist: "This is a dog hole." Not a city gate. Only when visiting the 'Dog Country' can you enter through the Dog Cave. I'll wait here for a while, and you go and ask first, what kind of country is Chu?" The receptionist immediately passed Yan Zi's words to the King of Chu. The King of Chu had no choice but to open the city gate and welcome Yan Zi in.

7. The story of Seiji Ozawa. Seiji Ozawa is a world-famous Japanese conductor. During a music conductor competition, he made a discovery when he was conducting a performance according to the score given by the jury. There were a few dissonances. At first, he thought the band had made a mistake, so he stopped to play again, but the result was still the same. At this time, the composer and judges present solemnly stated that there was nothing wrong with the score.

Facing hundreds of authorities, Seiji Ozawa thought for a moment and shouted: "No, the score must be wrong!" As soon as he finished speaking, warm applause erupted from the judges' seat. It turned out that this was a "trap" carefully designed by the judges. The first two contestants were eliminated because they blindly followed authority. Seiji Ozawa finally won the competition. His success is not only a success in artistic attainments, but also a success in self-esteem and self-confidence.