1. When Beethoven learned to play the violin, his technique was not excellent. He would rather play his own music than improve his skills. His teacher said that he was by no means a composer. But he insisted on composing his own music, and many of his music works pushed classical music to the peak with their strong artistic appeal and grandeur.

2. Whitman's work Leaves of Grass was praised by Emerson, a prestigious writer, which made some newspapers and periodicals that once evaluated it useless immediately change their words and become moderate. However, Whitman's innovative writing, rhyming format and novel ideological content are not so easily accepted by the public, and his Leaves of Grass is not sold well because of Emerson's praise.

However, Whitman added confidence and courage from it. At the end of 1855, he printed the second edition, in which he added twenty new poems. And achieved great success. Soon, it crossed national boundaries and spread to Britain and many parts of the world.

3. Dalton, the "father of modern chemistry", was ridiculed as a "green-eyed monkey" by his peers when he was a child, but he didn't care about the ridicule of others, concentrated on studying this strange phenomenon and went his own way, and finally discovered the "color blindness" of atavism. Finally, the self-adhesive was invented for the benefit of mankind.

Edison spent ten years developing storage battery. During this period, he was constantly frustrated and ridiculed. After about 50 thousand experiments, he finally succeeded in inventing the battery and was awarded the reputation of "the king of invention"

5. 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.