Material 1: Helen Keller is blind and deaf, but she tries to change from a compassionate little girl to a strong woman who is respected by the whole world. If life is really unfair, then life is extremely unfair to her. She can give up her dream and hide in a dark corner and cry loudly. No one will blame her. She can also lie in bed or sit in a wheelchair and be served like a vegetable. But all this, she didn't do it, she just learned the blind language with the help of the teacher, and what she moved only depended on her never-giving-up faith and perseverance. She painted her ideal sky with the brightest color of life.
Material 2: Wu Jichang, a farmer scientist in China, was entrusted by Premier Zhou to do cotton experiments. He "eats cotton and sleeps cotton", but secretly does it in his own home when xx doesn't allow him to do experiments. Finally, a new variety of cotton was cultivated, which contributed to the agricultural development of the motherland.
Material 3: Edison spent ten years developing storage batteries, during which he kept gritting his teeth. After about 50 thousand experiments, he finally succeeded in inventing the battery and was awarded the reputation of "the king of invention"
Material 4: Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, did not like reading when he was a child. One day, while the teacher was not at home, he sneaked out to play. He came to the river at the foot of the mountain and saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle on a stone. Li Bai was puzzled and asked, "Old woman, what are you doing grinding the iron pestle?" The old woman said, "I am grinding the needle." Li Bai was surprised and asked, "Oh dear! As thick as a pestle, how can it be ground into a needle? " The old woman smiled and said, "As long as you grind it every day, the pestle will become thinner and thinner. Are you afraid it won't be a needle? " Hearing this, Li Bai was ashamed of himself. He turned and ran back to the bookstore. From then on, he kept in mind the truth that "as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle", studied hard, and finally became a great poet, known as the "Poet Fairy".
Material 5: Van Gogh's persistent painting dream. Although it is a pity that his works were not appreciated before his death, it is really human to stick to his dreams and draw the pictures he wants in such a cold and poor environment.
Material 6: Once in class, Socrates gave his disciples an assignment to do one thing and shake hands a hundred times a day. After a week, he asked how many people still insisted on doing it, and 90% people insisted on doing it. A month later, he asked again, now there is only half left. A year later, he asked again, there is only one person who persists now, and that person is Plato.
Material 7: Dickens, a famous British writer, usually pays great attention to observing and experiencing life. No matter whether it is windy or rainy, he insists on observing and listening to the streets every day, recording the fragmentary words of pedestrians and accumulating rich living materials. In this way, he wrote a wonderful description of dialogue between characters in david copperfield and left a vivid description of social background in A Tale of Two Cities, thus becoming a generation of English writers and achieving great success in his literary career.
Material 8: Hua is a famous mathematician in China. He was born in poverty, had no diploma and tutor, and was located in a remote place, but he succeeded. What does he rely on? It is the spirit of perseverance! He can lie in bed for three months and turn over books to testify.
Material 9: Alexander the Great distributed all his property to his deputies before his expedition to Persia. One of the ministers named Pildigas was very surprised. Q: "Your Majesty, what are you carrying?" "I wish I only brought this kind of baby." Alexander replied. Upon hearing this answer, Pildigas said, "Then please let us share it." So he declined the property allocated to him. Hope is the signpost of creating life. Never give up.
Material 10: 30 years ago, a young man left his hometown and began to create his own future. He visited the patriarch of his family and asked for advice. The old patriarch wrote three words: Don't be afraid. Then he looked up at the young man and said, "Son, the secret of life is only six words. Today, I say three words to your half-life. " Thirty years have passed, and the former young people have reached middle age, with some achievements and a lot of sadness. After a long journey home, he visited the patriarch again. When he arrived at the patriarch's house, he realized that the old man had passed away several years ago. His family took out a sealed envelope and said to him, "The old man left this for you. He said you would come again one day. " The wanderer who returned home remembered that he had heard half the secrets of life here 30 years ago. He opened the envelope and there were three big words in it: No regrets. When you are alive, don't be afraid before middle age and don't regret after middle age. This is the refinement of experience and the concentration of wisdom.
Material 1 1: Marx, the director of the world proletarian revolutionary movement, spent more than 40 years reading Das Kapital and read a lot of materials in the British Museum. The concrete floor under the seat where he was sitting was worn off by a layer. Through unremitting efforts, Marx finally wrote Das Kapital, which the proletarians all over the world needed.
Material 12: Sima Qian dabbled in group books when he was a teenager and determined to inherit his father's business. Just when the Historical Records he wrote was progressing smoothly, he was jailed because of the Liling Incident. In the face of this great shame, he did not sigh and sink, but forge ahead, and he was "quiet and angry." After decades of grievances, he finally wrote Historical Records, which is a "one-family statement" and will be handed down to future generations.
Material 13: Leonardo da Vinci, a famous painter in the European Renaissance, loved painting since he was a child. His father sent him to Florence, a famous Italian city at that time, to learn from the famous painter Fo Rocchio. The teacher asked him to start by drawing eggs. He painted for more than ten days. Seeing that he was a little impatient, the teacher said to him, "Don't think it's easy to draw an egg, you know, no two eggs in 1000 are exactly the same;" Even the same egg, as long as the shape is different from another angle, the oval outline of the egg will be different. Therefore, if you want to express it perfectly on drawing paper, you have to work hard. "From then on, Leonardo da Vinci devoted himself to studying sketches, and after a long period of hard and diligent artistic practice, he finally created many immortal paintings.
Material 14: Panasonic has just fallen into a professional dilemma, and he walked helplessly on the road that day. The conversation between a brother and sister caught his attention. My sister is ironing clothes, and my brother wants to study, but he can't turn on the light because there was only one plug. "Can you turn on the light quickly, so how can I read?" "Well, well, soon." "Everyone agrees that it has been 30 minutes." Panasonic suddenly thought: it's inconvenient to have only one wire. Why is there no dual-purpose plug? He studied the problem carefully and soon came up with the structure of the dual-purpose plug. After the trial products came out, they sold out quickly, and more and more people ordered them, which was simply in short supply. Since then, Panasonic's career has been on the right track and its profits have increased substantially. Any problem is a good opportunity to stimulate creativity.