Sima Qian obeyed his father's last wish when he was young, and was determined to write a history book that could "hide famous mountains and pass them on to future generations". In the seventh year when he started writing this history book, the case of Li Ling happened. Li Ling, the general of the Second Normal University, was defeated and surrendered because he was outnumbered in a war with Xiongnu. Sima Qian defended Li Ling, angered Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was arrested and imprisoned, and suffered cruel "corruption".

After accepting the model, I tried to commit suicide because of humiliation and pain, but I can think that my ideal of writing history books has not been completed. So I stood up with humiliation and spent 18 years before and after, and finally wrote Historical Records. This masterpiece has 526500 words. Creating a general history of China's biography, with rich and informative historical materials, has always been respected by people. Lu Xun once spoke highly of Historical Records in a very general language: "Historians never sing, and there is no rhyme."

Young Darwin will travel around the world.

Charlie Robert Darwin said to his father when he was 9 years old: I think there must be many mysteries in the world that have not been discovered by people. I will travel around the world and make field trips in the future. To this end, he has been actively preparing. At Chirouze Bury School, the principal called him a "doing nothing" student with dreams.

183 1 year 12.27 Darwin finally boarded the naval research ship beagle and traveled around the world for five years, making a lot of observations and collections in animals, plants and geology. After comprehensive discussion, the concept of biological evolution was formed. 1859, he published the Origin of Species, which shocked the academic circles at that time. The theory of evolution based on natural selection not only shows that species are changeable, but also correctly explains biological adaptability, thus destroying creationism, teleology and species invariance. Later, he published books such as Animal Variation and Family Values, Human Origin and Sexual Selection. This paper systematically describes artificial selection, puts forward the theory of sexual selection and the origin of human beings, and further enriches the content of evolution theory.

Charles Darwin eventually became a famous British naturalist and a pioneer of evolution.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong Zhenguan, there was a horse and a donkey in a mill in the west of Chang 'an. They are good friends. The horse is pulling outside and the donkey is grinding inside. In the third year of Zhenguan, this horse was selected by Master Xuanzang and set off for India to learn from the Western Regions.

17 years later, this horse returned to Chang' an with Buddhist scriptures. He went back to the mill to meet his donkey friend. The old horse talked about the experience of this trip; The vast desert, the towering mountains, the ice and snow in Ling Feng, the waves of the boiling sea … those mythical realms make the donkey marvel. The donkey exclaimed, "How rich your information is! I dare not even think about such a long way. " "In fact," said the old horse, "the distance we traveled is roughly equal. When I moved to the western regions, you didn't stop. The difference is that Master Xuanzang and I have a far-reaching goal, and we are marching in the same direction, so we have opened up a vast world. And you are blindfolded and have been spinning on the millstone all your life, so you will never get out of this narrow world. "

This is a simple fable, but we can see some essence of life from it. Research shows that among all sentient beings, the really crazy money is very few, and most people have similar intelligence. However, in their long lives, some of these people have made great contributions to the world, while others have accomplished nothing. This is a group of people with similar intelligence. Why are their achievements so different? A survey by Carnegie may explain this problem.

Carnegie once made a survey on life goals for 1 10,000 people of different races, ages and sexes in the world. He found that only 3% people can define their goals and know how to achieve them; The other 97% people either have no goal at all, or the goal is unclear, or they don't know how to achieve it ... 10 years later, he conducted another survey on the above objects, and the result surprised him: 5% of the total survey samples could not be found, and 95% were still there; People who belong to the original 97% range, except for the increase in age 10 years old, have no improvement in life, work and personal achievements, and are still so ordinary and mediocre; But the original distinctive 3% has achieved considerable success in various fields. The goals they set 65,438+00 years ago have all been achieved to varying degrees, and they are all progressing according to their original life goals.

Carnegie's conclusion also shocked us. It turns out that the most fundamental difference between excellent people and mediocre people lies not in talent, nor in opportunity, but in whether there is a goal in life! Just like the old horse and the donkey, the old horse keeps going west, and the donkey just turns around the millstone. Although the donkey's life path is almost the same as that of the old horse, because he has no goal, he will never get out of that narrow world. So is life. For people without goals, the passage of time only means the growth of age and can only be repeated day after day.

Perhaps, we are not satisfied with our mediocrity; Perhaps, we have complained about the boredom of life; However, when we set goals for ourselves in our hearts and keep moving forward, our life will turn a new page.