Story 1: Nixon was defeated by confidence.

Nixon is the president of the United States that we are very familiar with, but a great man like him ruined his political future because of an unconfident mistake.

1972, Nixon was re-elected. Because of his outstanding achievements in his first term, most political commentators predicted that Nixon would win by a landslide.

However, Nixon himself was not confident. He can't get out of the psychological shadow of past failures, and he is extremely worried about failing again. Driven by this subconscious, he did a stupid thing that he regretted for life. He assigned his men to sneak into the Watergate Hotel of his opponent's campaign headquarters and install bugs in his opponent's office. After the incident, he repeatedly stopped investigating and shirked his responsibility, and was forced to resign shortly after winning the election. Nixon, a shoo-in, was forced to resign.

Story 2: Seiji Ozawa is more confident.

Seiji Ozawa is a world-famous symphony conductor. In the final of a world-class conductor competition, he played according to the score given by the jury, and keenly found the discordant voice. At first, he thought the band had made a mistake, so he stopped to play again, but it was still wrong. He thinks there is something wrong with the music. At this time, the composer present and the authority of the jury insisted that there was absolutely no problem with the score, but he was wrong. Facing a large number of musicians and authorities, there must be something wrong with his music score! "At the same time, the judges on the bench immediately stood up and gave him warm applause to congratulate him on winning the game.

It turns out that this is a "trap" carefully designed by the judges to test whether the conductor can stick to his correct opinion when he finds that the score is wrong and is "denied" by the authorities. Although the top two conductors in the final also found mistakes, they were eventually eliminated because they echoed the opinions of authoritative people. Seiji Ozawa won the world command competition because of his confidence.

In view of the pessimistic phenomenon that some industries are not suitable for cooperative sales for generations, Manager Du spent a hakodate to discuss the legendary story of Joe Gillard.

Story 3: Let go, anything is possible: joe girard's revelation!

Joe girard, the world Gisenyi automobile sales champion, is the greatest salesman in the world. He has been ranked first in the world in Gisenyi records for 65,438+02 years in a row. He kept the world car sales record: 12 years, selling an average of 6 cars a day, and no one can break it so far. Joe joe girard, who was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for selling more than 65,438+03,000 cars. He once became the person who sold the most new cars in the world for 15 years in a row, and sold 1300 vehicles every year on average for 6 years.

Joe girard is also the most popular speaker in the world. He passed on his valuable experience to many Fortune 500 companies. Millions of people from all over the world were moved by his speech and inspired by his behavior.

Before the age of thirty-five, joe girard was a complete failure. He has a rather severe stutter. He has changed 40 jobs and still achieved nothing. He even worked as a thief and ran a casino. However, who would have thought that such a person who was not optimistic about anyone and was almost desperate for debt could reach the top of the world in just three years and was called "the greatest salesman in the world" by Guinness World Records.

How did he do it? Learning with an open mind, working hard, paying attention to service and sharing sincerely are the four most important keys to joe girard's success.

Sales is a business that needs wisdom and strategy. But in our opinion, confidence and persistence are the most important, because according to the forecast, no one will think of joe girard's later glory!

It can be inferred that if you are born better than joe girard and have never stolen anything, if you don't stutter, then you have no reason not to succeed, unless you have no confidence in yourself, unless you really have never worked hard and struggled!

Story 4: Lincoln's steps

A little boy about 1 year old was led by his young mother to the square of the park. He was about to climb more than ten steps. The little boy broke free from his mother's hand and tried to climb up by himself. He climbed up with chubby little hands, and his mother didn't mean to pick him up. When he climbed two steps, he felt that the steps were very high. He looked back at his mother, who didn't mean to help him. It's just that his eyes are full of love and encouragement The little boy looked up again. He gave up the idea of letting his mother hold him, but climbed up carefully with his hands and feet. He climbed very hard. Little ass lifted him up, his face red with fatigue. The doll's clothes were covered with mud and his hands were dirty, but he finally climbed up. The young mother patted the dirt on her son and kissed his little red face.

This little boy is Lincoln who later became the first 16 president of the United States. His mother is Nancy Hanks.

Lincoln's father was a farmer and his family was very poor. Lincoln received formal education intermittently, which added up to less than 1 year. But from an early age, Lincoln developed the good qualities of loving knowledge, pursuing knowledge, being kind and upright, and being fearless of difficulties. He couldn't afford paper and pens, so he wrote on the board with charcoal and practiced writing on the ground with a small stick. He seized all the time to study and practice his speech. Lincoln lost his job and became a worker. He used to be a lawyer. From the age of 29, he began to run for parliament and president. He tried 1 1 times and failed 9 times. 5 1 year-old, finally won the White House and made great achievements. He was called a "world hero" by Marx. His mother Nancy died when Lincoln was 9 years old. But there is no doubt.

It goes without saying that there are countless steps in a person's life-living, studying and working. How to face and climb these steps? For children, is it holding hands, holding hands, or holding hands? Different parents will have different answers. Obviously, if parents hold and help their children, they will become dependent and often regard their parents as crutches, making it difficult to stand on their own feet. If parents carry their children up the stairs and in their infancy, then the children will become the "big generation", and it will be more difficult to stand on their feet in society without wind and rain. Even parents who are admitted to college should follow as "nannies". After their children graduate from college, they have to find a job, and their parents have to be "professional intermediaries" ... so it is difficult for children to become adults on their own.

No matter how rich you are, you can't make a child rich. You might as well give the child a hard time and have a "step" for him to climb up. In this way, children may be able to "muster" and climb to the top of glory.

The following are all Beethoven:

I. Childhood

Beethoven's grandfather and father were both court singers. Most of the time, his father is drunk, and he is not very good to his family. He never even asks his family if they are full and warm. At first, a kind grandfather can save the family from too much pain. On the other hand, the eldest grandson's musical talent also makes the elderly feel extremely gratified. But when Beethoven was only four years old, his grandfather died. Beethoven's father often dragged the child to the keyboard and made him practice hard for hours, slapping him whenever he played wrongly. Neighbors often hear the child crying and sleeping because of fatigue and pain. Soon, Faifr, a poor traveling musician, came to this town. He was taken to Beethoven's home. He and old Beethoven often drank until midnight in the pub outside, and then went home to drag little Ludwig out of bed and began his class. This lesson sometimes doesn't end until dawn. In order to make him look like a child prodigy, his father lied about his age and took him out for a concert as a six-year-old when he was eight years old. But there is no child prodigy trained the day after tomorrow, although it took a lot of effort. Old Beethoven has never been able to turn his son into another young Mozart. Compared with Mozart, Beethoven's childhood was too unfortunate. Mozart received a good education in his childhood, practiced happily and quietly, and had a loving father and a beloved sister. On the other hand, Beethoven won the respect of his hometown people for his performances, but his worldwide travel performances were far less amazing than Mozart's.

Second, the mentor.

My father took the boy from one teacher to another and asked him to learn different musical instruments and the art of composing music. Before he fell into the hands of the court pianist and the manager of Bonn Theatre, these teachers could not be called good teachers. This is a respected music teacher. Friendly, well-educated young people. This is really Beethoven's luck. Because although Bonn has the best schools-good old Bach will happily send many of his children to study-Beethoven's father never thought it worth sending Beethoven there to study even for two or three months. In his eyes, reading is far less profitable than learning music. For the first time in his life, young Beethoven felt that attending classes was a pleasure. Mr. Nifei is very kind to him, not only teaching music, but also teaching him many other things in the world. In order to pay the tuition, Beethoven took the place of his teacher as an organist when Mr. Niffe was busy or left town. So when he just turned fourteen, he was appointed as an assistant court organist and an ancient pianist in the theater. That's hateful.

Three. Visit Mozart

It was about this time that he visited Vienna for the first time in his life and played for his favorite idol Mozart. Mozart thought that the child was just playing an exhibition that had been practiced for such an occasion for a long time. Out of politeness, he had to praise him politely and coldly. Beethoven was very angry and asked Mozart to give him a theme, and then he improvised on it with so much emotion and genius. Mozart was surprised and immediately ran to the door of the next room. "Pay attention to this young man!"

Fourth, Beethoven and Haydn.

Beethoven finally realized that he could not make greater progress in his hometown, so he decided to try his luck in Vienna again. By this time, Mozart had died, but Haydn had just won his first victory in London and was at the peak of his fame. When he passed Bonn, Haydn had heard a chorus of Beethoven and enjoyed it very much, so Beethoven decided to turn to Haydn to study first. Haydn has passed his youth. He wrote and conducted his greatest works more diligently than ever before. No wonder he doesn't have much time and energy to correct the paper. Moreover, he requires students to pay only 20 cents per class, and he probably doesn't feel that he needs to spend too much time practicing manuscript paper. So Beethoven often found some uncorrected mistakes in his exercises, and he was very angry. When the old teacher went to London for the second time, Beethoven turned to a less talented but strict teacher to study. Later, he often announced loudly that he had learned nothing from Haydn. However, before long, he will gradually feel that if he didn't get anything from the correction exercise, it was that he got inspiration from Haydn because he dedicated his first piano sonata to Haydn. When Haydn appeared on the stage for the last time to perform Genesis, he got help from several servants.

Five, go your own way

Beethoven didn't want to be the darling of the living room. He would rather stay in his own residence and be able to get in and out, get up, dress and eat at will. He likes to fiddle with small things in the room according to his own interests. On one occasion, for the sake of air circulation, he deliberately cut a piece of the window to see the scenery outside the window. He always gets into trouble with the landlord and keeps moving. Whenever he reaches the peak of his creation, he always pours pots of water on his head. Sometimes he moves so often that he doesn't even want to worry about putting the piano on his lap, so he just sits on the floor and plays. Because he has to sign a lease every time he rents a new house, he often has to pay the rent for four apartments at the same time. This is probably why although he earns a lot of money, he always has little savings!

Six, deafness

When he really felt that he was going deaf, he was almost desperate. Life doesn't seem worth living: what is more unfortunate for a musician than not hearing the sweet voice that he likes to listen to and live on! At first, only a few old friends, such as Dr. Wigler and Stephen von Braeuning, knew about his misfortune. He gave up going to the palace to listen to the cheerful concert he liked very much. He was afraid that people would notice his deafness and thought that an deaf musician could not write a good work. Don't! He remembers all the music he wants to write. "I want to hold my destiny by the throat!" "Maybe it's not as difficult for him to create music when he is deaf as other musicians. In his view, music is not only to arrange various themes or sound patterns with charming voices, but also a language to express the deepest thoughts.

Beethoven and his friends

No musician has so many successes and so few happy times in his life. His friend.

He is kind and loyal, but his damn deafness separates him from them. Even his hearing aid often disappoints him, so the only way for him to keep in touch with them is the "talking book" and pencil he often carries with him. When he saw them talking to each other, he thought they were always talking about him, speaking ill of him and plotting against him. One day he wrote, "Never appear in front of me again! You are a mean dog, a dishonest guy! " The next day, when he found that his suspicion was wrong and his friend was sincere, he wrote another note: "Dear friend, you are an honest man and you are right. I understand now. So come to me this afternoon and accept your Beethoven love. " And his friends-how nice of them-always forgive his rude quarrels. Accompany him to the end. His family life is miserable from beginning to end: he has never been married. When he first came to Vienna, he proposed to his hometown singer Magdalene willman, but she refused because Beethoven was "so ugly". From then on, he fell in love with several aristocratic women-lovely women with lovely names.

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First, the heroic symphony

Beethoven's heart is full of ideals of freedom, equality and love. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the French bourgeois revolution in 1789. 1798, General Bernadotte (1763- 1844) became the French ambassador to Vienna. Beethoven often goes to his home and has close contacts with people around him. He began to compose the third symphony dedicated to Napoleon. In his mind, Napoleon was a hero who destroyed the autocratic system and realized the ideal of republicanism. 1804, Beethoven completed the third symphony. Just as he was about to dedicate it to Napoleon, the news that Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor spread to Vienna. Beethoven studied under the student Lisi (1784- 1838). With that, he went to the table, tore up the dedication to Napoleon and threw it on the ground, so that no one else could pick it up. After many days, Beethoven's anger gradually subsided and the work was allowed to be published. 1804 February, this symphony was performed for the first time in the court of Prince Rob Kovitz in Vienna. It was conducted by Beethoven himself, and the program said: "New symphony in D major, composed by Mr. Ludwig van Beethoven, dedicated to His Royal Highness Prince Rob Kovitz." Strangely, Beethoven said it was in D major instead of E major. When1806 published its music score in June, it was printed on the title page: Heroic Symphony, written in memory of a great man.