In order to seize the time to study, he specially made a log pillow. The magical function of the pillow is that when he sleeps, as long as he flips his body, it will roll and people will wake up and continue to learn knowledge, so it is called "police pillow". Whenever Sima Guang needs a rest, he will rest on the "police pillow". Thanks to this study, he finally became a knowledgeable person.
2. Wang Yanan, a famous Marxist economist in China and the earliest translator of Das Kapital in China, went to Europe by boat in 1933. Suddenly, the passenger ship reached the Red Sea, and the waves were so strong that people could not stand. At this moment, Wang Yanan with glasses walked into the restaurant with a book in his hand and begged the waiter to say, "Please tie me to this post!" .
The waiter thought he was afraid of being thrown into the sea by the waves, so he tied Wang Yanan firmly to the post as he said. After the tie was broken, Wang Yanan opened the book and read it attentively. As soon as the foreigners on board saw it, they all cast amazing eyes on him and said with admiration, "Ah! China people are amazing! " .
3. Study hard in Qu Yuan's cave
This story tells that when Qu Yuan was a child, he hid in a cave and secretly read the Book of Songs, regardless of the opposition of his elders, whether it was windy or rainy or freezing. For three years, he familiarized himself with 305 Poems of the Book of Songs, and gained rich nutrition from these folk songs, eventually becoming a great poet.
Mr. Lu Xun studied hard since he was a child. When I was a teenager, I studied at Jiangnan Naval Academy. He got excellent grades in the first semester and won a gold medal in the school. He immediately took it to the street of Nanjing Gulou and sold it. Then he bought some books and a bunch of red peppers. Whenever it is cold at night, he can't stand reading at night. He picked a pepper and chewed it in his mouth, making his forehead sweat. He used this method to drive away the cold and insisted on studying. Thanks to his hard work, he finally became a famous writer in China.
In his later years, Ouyang Xiu painstakingly revised the words written in his life every day. His wife told him not to modify them, saying, why do you torture yourself like this? Are you still afraid of being scolded by the teacher? Ouyang Xiu said with a smile that he was not afraid of the teacher's scolding, but he was afraid of future generations' jokes.
6. When Su Shi was the county magistrate of Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty, there was a county resident who made a living by fans, but when it was cold, fans could not be sold, so he owed taxes. Dongpo told him to draw dead wood and bamboo stones on it with fans, and drew more than twenty fans. No one will buy it until the people in the county walk out of the county gate. So pay off all the taxes you owe.
7. Yu Qianju, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, was incorruptible. On one occasion, the court sent him to Henan to inspect. When he returned to Beijing, people bought some local specialties such as silk handkerchief, mushrooms and incense sticks, which were expensive to send back to Beijing, but he refused to accept them. At the same time, he also wrote a poem to show his heart: Sipa mushroom, fragrant and harmful to the people. The wind blows the sleeves to the sky, so as not to talk short. "
8. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, a man named Liu Chong was appointed as the prefect of Huiji. He reformed graft and abolished exorbitant taxes, which made the lawsuit very clean. Later, he was transferred to the post of master craftsman by the imperial court. Before he left, the local people took the initiative to collect money for Liu Chong, who was about to leave, but Liu Chong was not affected. Later, it was really hard to refuse, so I took a copper coin from it and accepted it symbolically. Because of this, he is called "a dollar is too defensive".
9. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Zhen passed by Changyi on his way to his post, and Wang Mishan, the magistrate of Changyi County, visited him and gave him a gift of ten pounds. Yang Zhen said, "An old friend knows a gentleman, but you don't know an old friend. Why? Wang Mi didn't know that Poplar really blamed him and said, "It's getting dark, and no one knows. Yang Zhen said, "God knows, God knows, you know, I know, what is ignorance? Hearing this, Wang Mi was ashamed and went away disgruntled. "。
10, Edison was born humble and lived in poverty. His "education" is that he only attended primary school for three months in his life. Because his teacher is always tongue-tied by his strange questions, he even says to his mother that he is a fool and has no future. Although Edison did not receive a good school education, he achieved great success with his personal struggle and extraordinary intelligence, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-reliance.
Self-taught, he stood up from thousands of failures with perseverance, rare enthusiasm and energy, overcame countless difficulties and became an American inventor and entrepreneur. He invented the automatic telegraph and phonograph; Experiment and improve electric lights (incandescent lamps) and telephones. In his life, there was a new invention every 15 days on average, so he was called "the king of inventions".