In July 2008, 24-year-old Eric finally got his dream qualification for the Beijing Olympic Games in the swimming trials of the American Olympic Games. However, whether you can participate in the competition becomes a problem. It turned out that he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in an examination in June. After getting the doctor's advice that cancer cells will not spread for a while, Eric decided to take part in the competition. "The Olympic Games is my lifelong pursuit. I think I may never forget the day when I set foot in the Olympic swimming pool, no matter how many days I have left. Olympic dreams are higher than life. "

Learn to use: "One World, One Dream". Olympic dream is higher than life. Olympic dream is the lifelong pursuit of many people!

★ Tao Zhiming, an octogenarian who lives in Building 2, Dongfeng Village, dadukou district, Chongqing, began to take the self-study exam at the age of 58. As an older candidate, it is self-evident that it is difficult to learn all the courses by yourself. According to the memory of Tao Zhiming, the goal he set for himself was to complete 17 courses in four years. Three years later, all the subjects he applied for failed, but the old man never thought of giving up. From the fourth year, old Man Tao Zhiming began to sum up his learning experience. That year, he passed two courses. The most difficult course of all is introduction to natural science. He took the exam seven times in a row before he succeeded. In April 2002, 77-year-old Tao Zhiming finally got the university diploma of 18.

Learn to use it: Without tireless enterprising spirit and indomitable perseverance, even the best dream can't be realized.

At the University of Wisconsin, there is a rule that professors will be forced to retire at the age of 70. The reason is that at the age of 70, he has no energy or physical strength to do research or teaching. 1943, Dr. Dege, a professor of botany in this school, was just 70 years old. Although he loves his career, he has to say goodbye to everything he missed. Dege has always had a dream in his heart, that is, to develop a specific medicine to save those who are tortured by diseases. Now, although he has retired, he doesn't want to retire his dream. Soon after, Dege was hired as a consultant by the pharmaceutical company of Ridley Laboratory to do independent research. Two years later, he got nothing. But he still doesn't give up hope, because the dream in his heart is still calling him. After many experiments, he finally isolated an antibiotic, which can control more than 50 serious diseases. This is the famous chlortetracycline.

Apply what you have learned: although the dream is beautiful, the road to realization is very difficult and bumpy. If you want your dreams to come true, you must have the tenacious will and determination to realize them.

The famous fairy tale master Andersen dreamed of becoming a playwright when he was young. For this dream, he left home and went to Copenhagen alone. Helpless, he drifted from place to place, but he didn't back down and give up. 1835, he tried to write several fairy tales, which were very popular with children. After that, he changed his original dream, and the fairy tale master became his new dream. Later, he wrote many famous fairy tales, such as The Daughter of the Sea and The Ugly Duckling, and became a world-recognized fairy tale master.

Apply what you have learned: dream, sometimes you need to turn. Persistence may be a dead end; You can turn a corner and stick to it. Maybe it will turn around.

Many years ago, an Italian boy aged 10 worked in a factory in Naples. He always wanted to be a singer, but his first teacher said, "You can't sing, you can't sing, and your songs are like the wind blowing blinds." After returning home, he was very sad and cried all this to his mother, a poor peasant woman. Mother hugged him and said softly, "son, you are actually very talented in music." Listen, you sang much better today than yesterday. Mom believes that you will become an excellent singer ... "Hearing these words, the child's mood is much better. Later, the child became a famous opera singer of that era. His name is Enrico Carroussel.

Learn to use: in the face of children's dreams, parents should give affirmation and encouragement, so that dreams can take root in children's hearts. Obviously, it takes hard work and sweat to realize your dream.

make an effort

Henry fok's journey

(Struggle led him to success)

Henry Fok, a famous real estate tycoon in Hong Kong.

But who knows, today, Mr. Fok Ying-tung came step by step by a coolie worth 70 cents? The poor family in childhood and the rough and bitter life in adulthood have tempered Fok Ying-tung's perseverance and cultivated his character of self-improvement, courage to forge ahead and struggle.

When the Japanese army expanded the airport during World War II, he worked as a coolie, earning 70 cents and a half a catty of rice a day. At that time, he only ate a bowl of porridge and a piece of rice cake every day, and he was dizzy with hunger. After the end, Henry fok devoted himself to the transportation industry. After the Korean War broke out, he started shipping again, and his business was very prosperous. Fok Ying-tung was not satisfied with his achievements in the transportation industry and began to March into the real estate industry. Since then, real estate has become the basis of his fortune.

Diligent Mendeleev

(Reach the goal through struggle)

Mendeleev, an outstanding Russian chemist, has been engaged in chemical research all his life, working tirelessly and achieving fruitful results. Because of hard life and hard work, Mendeleev was exhausted in college and was admitted to the hospital. He secretly put books, pens and paper tapes into the ward and never stopped studying for a day. In his later years, he often fell ill, his eyesight dropped to semi-blindness, and his hands trembled so that he could not write, but he still dictated his secretary to write an autobiography and organize his works. Three weeks before his death, he also participated in the discussion of the airship's plan to explore the North Pole. It is in this spirit of constant struggle that Mendeleev discovered the periodic law of elements and published more than 500 scientific works, including thousands of pages.

Hawking in a wheelchair

(The meaning of life lies in struggle)

British physicist Stephen? Hawking founded a new theory of the universe and wrote a brief history of time, which is called "the most outstanding theoretical physicist in the world after Einstein". He was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy on 1963, and the doctor thought that he could only live for two years. However, he has made great achievements and won the unanimous respect of academia and the public, which is inseparable from his strong will and tenacious vitality. 1970, Hawking had to use a wheelchair. It has been more than 30 years, but he has always insisted on physical research, and even after losing his speech function, he still relies on machines to work.

He, a professor of astronomy at Beijing Normal University, attended Hawking's academic lectures in the early 1980s. Hawking was seriously ill at that time, and it was not convenient to communicate with others, but he kept on fighting and studying hard. Dix, a friend he met at Hawking University, said: "When everything he loved was lost, Hawking not only lived a strong life, but also lived a great life. He brought people not only scientific wisdom, but also the most precious spirit of unremitting struggle. "

Write Sandu Fu in Ten Years

(strive for self-improvement)

Zuo Si in the Western Jin Dynasty was born in poverty, slow in response, ugly in appearance and clumsy in speech. Learning calligraphy and playing the piano all failed. His father said to his friend, "The child is weak and stupid." Zuo Si was unconvinced and studied hard to make up for it. He set out to prepare Sandu Fu, thinking about the article while eating and walking. There is even a pen and paper in the toilet at home. Once he thinks of a sentence, he will write it down at any time. Lu Ji, a talented person working in Luoyang at that time, was also preparing for Sandu Fu. Hearing this, he sneered: "There is an ugly man here who wants to write Sandu Fu, and his article is only for me." Zuo Si did not waver, demanding to be the secretary in charge of credentials and classics, and taking the opportunity to study hard. Over time, he finally spent ten years writing "Sandu Fu", which was copied by officials and powerful people, and was "expensive in Luoyang" for a while.

Let struggle become a living habit.

(Struggle needs persistence)

John, a famous British novelist? When Cresset was young, he devoted himself to literary creation, but he didn't have a college degree and no effective relatives to cling to. He contributed to all British publishing houses and literary journals, but received 743 rejection forms. Nevertheless, he insisted on writing. He once said to a friend, "Yes, I am suffering from many incredible failures. If I stop here, all the rejection forms will become meaningless. But once I succeed, the value of each rejection will be recalculated. "

Later, his works finally came out, and his potential creative talents surged like a river, overwhelming. By the time he 1973 died at the age of 75, he had written 564 books in 43 years, totaling more than 40 million words. His own height is 1.78 meters, and his books are piled up for more than two meters.

Success is never an easy thing. If you want to succeed, you must be a fearless long-distance runner, keep fighting and never give up halfway.

Truth needs to be upheld.

One day, in class, the philosopher Socrates took out an apple and stood in front of the platform and said, "Please smell the air!" " "

A student raised his hand and replied, "I smell it, it's the smell of apples!" " Socrates stepped down from the podium, holding an apple in his hand, slowly walked up to each student and told him, "Please smell it carefully again. Does the air smell of apples? "

At this time, half of the students have raised their hands. Socrates returned to the podium and repeated the question just now. This time, everyone raised their hands except one student who didn't raise their hands. Socrates walked up to the students and asked, "Do you really smell nothing?" The student said positively, "I really don't smell anything!" " "At this time, Socrates announced to everyone:" He is right, because this is a fake apple. "This student is the later famous philosopher Plato.

Many times, we are close to the truth, but we leave the truth because of lack of self-confidence. Plato's courage to stick to the truth stems from his firm belief in facts. The road to truth will not be smooth sailing. The key to not being confused by illusion is whether we can stick to the truth to the end.

Cui qi's "shortcut"

Cui Qi won the Nobel Prize in Physics for "discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect". He is a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. It is rare for an engineering professor to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

One of Cui Qi's favorite maxims is: "Ask only about cultivation, not about harvest."

In February, Cui Qi talked with college students about success at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He said earnestly that many of the people he contacted in his 30 years of teaching were science students who grew up in China. They often lack self-confidence and don't start until they know what they will get. On the contrary, European students like to take risks. As long as they find it interesting, good and challenging, they will do it in a down-to-earth manner. In the conversation with students after the speech, college students all want to get a "shortcut" to success from this world-class master of science. However, Professor Cui Qi's answer from beginning to end is "persistence".

Edison's perseverance

Edison is called "the king of invention" by the world. He provided about 2,000 inventions, large and small, to mankind in his life. The secret of his success is "diligence" and "perseverance". In order to find heat-resistant materials in light bulbs, he tried about 6,000 kinds of fiber materials and finally found carbonized bamboo filaments. Although the first bamboo filament light is on 1200 hours. But he continued to explore, persevere and improve, and finally developed into a tungsten lamp, which was used for 20 years.

In order to transform corrosive sulfuric acid battery into nickel-iron induction battery, he made unremitting experiments from 1900. It took 10 years and nearly 50,000 experiments before he succeeded.

Famous aphorisms related to ideals, struggle and perseverance:

I found that it was in those years when life made me suffer the greatest humiliation and pain that I experienced so many hardships, and my courage and indomitable spirit to achieve my goals were particularly high. -Gorky "How do I read"

In the dangerous task, please give me strength, honor me with pain, and help me climb up the hard heart that contributes to you every day. -Tagore's Collection of Travel Thoughts

With indomitable spirit, he is the enemy of the lion. (Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I)

A man of virtue and courage, an upright man will never be timid. -Shakespeare's tit for tat

Inspiring loyalty can turn a rotating pole into a spear. -Shakespeare's cymbeline

A man who advances by leaps and bounds cannot be a gentle slave. He must have a real character to be really brave. -Shakespeare's "The Humiliation of Lucretius" Stubborn people are noble. Only brave and strong people have a kind of excitement, a kind of temperament and a kind of morality. -Hugo "Work at Sea"

Take the road that you think is right and reasonable bravely. Roman? Roland's mother and son

Only those who are afraid of what they should be afraid of and what they should not be afraid of are brave. -Tolstoy's attack

A group of cowards are cultivated in vain in prosperous times, and suffering is always the mother of strength. (Shakespeare's cymbeline)

A hard oak tree, even if it is cut with a small axe, will eventually be cut down. -Shakespeare's The Second Part of Henry VI

The rough sea is not as tenacious as we are, the lion is not as confident as we are, the rock is not as firm as we are, no, the cruel death is not as decisive as we are. -Shakespeare's King John

Abundant energy and tenacious determination have created many miracles. Dickens' desolate villa