Materials 1: reading materials
Mr. Wang, a jade sculptor, took a fancy to a stone, a very ordinary jade, in the stone wool market. He bought it in 300 yuan and wanted to carve a work. But he took it home and studied it for a long time. He didn't figure out what to carve, so he put the stone in the corner and left it for five years. Five years later, he moved the stone out again and soon carved a work: blessing. An old woman with folded hands and kind eyes, a kind and pious face, seems to be blessing all things in the world for good luck and peace. Someone wants to buy it, and the bid is as high as 380,000 yuan. Some people don't understand, how can a 300-yuan stone become priceless without great efforts to carve it? Isn't this the turning of stone into gold?
Mr. Wang said that it was only a stone before carving, but it was no longer a stone after carving, because it had spirituality and artistic conception. It only took me a short time to carve it, but in order to give it spirituality and artistic conception, I spent five years reading the materials!
Reading materials is a professional term of sculpture, which refers to the sculptor's investigation of the original shape and characteristics of blank materials, such as shape, color and texture, forming an outline in his mind and finally conceiving a stereotyped carving pattern.
Indeed, in the past five years, he has never forgotten that stone. When he is free, he always likes to sit in front of that stone and look over. Sometimes I sleep until midnight and suddenly get up to look at rocks. Sometimes I sit by the stone all night. He didn't know whether he "read" it thousands or tens of thousands of times before he finally created this work.
I haven't studied hard for five years. He couldn't turn the stone into gold, so there wouldn't be such an expensive work of art, and the stone might continue to lie alone in the corner. Therefore, reading materials is an extremely important process in his creation, and it is also an unknown struggle process.
Material 2: Eat from the roots.
A college graduate is committed to starting a business. Due to the lack of funds, we had to set up a fruit stand, but because of the low temperature in that year, the prices of sugarcane and bananas fluctuated greatly, but the prices of fruit stands for college graduates rose steadily. The reason is simple, because college students find that customers are expecting "sweetness" when eating sugar cane. So he focused on the root of sugarcane, cut the root and handed it to the customer, which made it sweeter to eat, thus catering to the customer's feelings. Many people think that a person's success must have an unknown secret, but this is not the case, just like the hero in the story-it is important to do everything with your heart, even if you just sell a crutch, you should also think of turning Gan Kun around at the right time. Struggle needs wisdom and development needs inspiration.
Material 3: Alistair Legless Paratrooper
Alistair, 39, was not born strong, even though he jumped from thousands of meters and made a "free fall". The former member of the Royal Army Parachute Regiment lost his legs in an explosion 17 years ago. Similar to all the plots, he also wanted to point a gun at himself like a coward, and later went through all the hardships and became the perfect hero in inspirational stories. The parachuting champion and his wife complete about 700 parachutes every year. Mostly forced to make a living. He just wants to be a "down-to-earth" good man and earn his own living. Although he is short of money, he never wants social donations or welfare subsidies. He insists on a normal life, because "only when I fly in the air can I feel that I am a healthy person".
Material 4: Isolation
Dai Mosini, a famous ancient Greek orator, hid in a basement to practice his eloquence in order to improve his speaking ability when he was young. Because I can't stand loneliness, I want to go out for a walk from time to time, and I can't calm down. The effect of practice is very poor. In desperation, he bent down and waved scissors to cut off half of his hair, thus becoming a strange "yin-yang head". Because of his hair, he was embarrassed to meet people, so he had to practice his eloquence wholeheartedly and his speech level advanced by leaps and bounds. It is with this spirit of concentration and persistence that Demesne finally became a world-famous great speaker.
1830, in order to concentrate on writing, the French writer Hugo locked all his clothes except the sweater he was wearing in the cupboard and threw the key into the lake. In this way, because he couldn't get the clothes to wear, he completely broke the idea of going out to see friends. He never leaves his desk except for eating and sleeping. As a result, his work was released two weeks early. And this work, which was completed in only five months, is the world-famous literary masterpiece Notre Dame de Paris.
On the long road of life, it is often easier to win the way out only if you don't stay backward.
Material 5: Footprints in the mud
Weber is an ordinary employee of Nissan Company in the United States. At first, he did his job diligently. Later, he found that there were thousands of people like himself in the company, and it was difficult to stand out by hard work. So his enthusiasm plummeted and he worked casually every day. One day, the company sent Weber to a farm in the suburbs to deliver information. That farmer is a black uncle. After that, Uncle Black asked Weber, "Young man, how are you getting along with Risheng Company?" Weber replied with a wry smile: "I am an ordinary employee, doing ordinary work, and there are thousands of people like me in the company." Even if I succeed again, I won't have any brilliant achievements, let alone the future! " Uncle Black smiled and asked, "Look back, young man, can you find the footprints we have traveled?"
At this time, they are walking on the farm path. Weber looked back. There were no footprints on the flat road, and he shook his head. Uncle Black said, "I can't find it!" In fact, our footprints have been left on it. At first, there was no road here, but there were more people walking and the footprints overlapped, so it became a road. It's hard to see your footprints where thousands of people have walked! "Black uncle said," you see, only when others don't participate, even when walking in the mud, will leave deep footprints! "
Weber was surprised and suddenly felt an unprecedented passion. He has been reused and promoted continuously, becoming the fourth general manager of Risheng Company after 15.
Did you find out? Struggle is like a deep footprint left by walking in the mud, which has achieved success.