A boy asked Tao Yuanming for advice. Tao Yuanming took him to the edge of the field and pointed to the rice and asked, "Look carefully, have you grown taller now?" The boy squatted down and stared at He Miao intently for a long time, saying, "I'm not good at it." Tao Yuanming asked, "Are you sure you can't? So, how do the seedlings grow tall in spring? " The boy shook his head in confusion. Tao Yuanming enlightened and said, "In fact, this seedling has been growing, but we just haven't learned it. The same is true of reading and studying. The growth of knowledge is accumulated bit by bit, and sometimes you don't even realize it. But as long as you are diligent and persistent, you will learn a lot from what you know. Therefore, some people say that' diligence is like a spring seedling, and it grows stronger every day'. " Then, Tao Yuanming pointed to a big millstone and asked, "Look at that millstone, why is it concave like a saddle?" The boy replied, "that's for wearing." "Have you ever seen anyone dressed like this?" The boy said, "I haven't seen it." Tao Yuanming further said: "This is the result of farmers sharpening knives, sickles and hoes on it every day. Over time, it is worn out. It can be seen that' dropping out of school is like sharpening a stone, and you will lose money every day'. Once the study is interrupted, the knowledge you have learned will be forgotten unconsciously. " Persuasion makes teenagers realize that they must "step by step and persevere" and "study hard to make progress, and drop out of school to drop out". 2. Keep winning
In order to prove that mosquitoes are the vector of malaria, British medical scientist Ross deals with mosquitoes day after day. 1983 One day, he looked at it under a microscope for eight hours. His eyes hurt and his vision blurred. In addition, the weather is hot, mosquitoes and flies bite him, and it is difficult to continue to observe. However, there are still two mosquitoes that have not been observed. Give them up? Or hold on a little longer? After a pause, he gritted his teeth and continued to observe under the microscope. The final victory is often in unremitting efforts. Suddenly, he found that the two mosquitoes had an unprecedented thin and round cell, which contained small particles of black matter, exactly like the pigment of plasmodium. In this way, he finally found the source of malaria transmission.
3. Celebrity's "Daily Newspaper"
Qian Xuesen, a famous scientist, gets up before dawn every day and insists on listening to the lecture on scientific knowledge given by China People's Broadcasting Station at six o'clock.
Huang, a famous painter, had to draw every night before his death, and he could draw 8 paintings at a time.
Zhu Kezhen, a famous meteorologist, observes the weather every day and keeps a weather diary.
During Sun Yat-sen's exile, the economy was very difficult, but he saved money to buy books every day. He said, "I can't live without studying for a day." 4. The Iron Law of Success
Marx spent 40 years writing Das Kapital. Darwin spent 20 years writing The Origin of Species.
It took Copernicus 36 years to write the theory of celestial bodies. Morgan spent 40 years writing Ancient Society.
Goethe spent 60 years writing Faust. It took Tolstoy 37 years to write War and Peace.
Sima Qian spent 15 years writing Historical Records. Zuo Si wrote three capitals for 10 years.
It took Li Shizhen 27 years to write Compendium of Materia Medica. It took Cao Xueqin 10 years to write A Dream of Red Mansions.
Xu Xiake's Travels was written by Xu Xiake in 34 years.
As can be seen from the above figures, it takes perseverance to achieve something. So Balzac said, "Constant labor is the iron law of life and art."
The great Russian writer Chernyshevski writes every day. 1862, he was imprisoned by the czar government. During his 778 days there, he overcame many difficulties and persisted in writing a series of works, such as the world-famous novel What to Do. 5. Success lies in persistence.
Musician Xian Xinghai used bowls, plates, jars and altars instead of pianos when practicing music scores. After a long and unremitting practice, he finally gave birth to an inspiring and touching song-The Yellow River Cantata.
When Mei Lanfang was young, in order to put on a good show, she got up early every day and stared at homing pigeons flying in the distance. Day after day, year after year, without interruption, she finally corrected the weakness of drooping eyelids and eyes, and became a master of Beijing opera performance.
Edison tried more than 6000 kinds of materials to solve the filament material problem, and finally succeeded.
China scientist Wang Linhe's success in trial-manufacturing high-voltage electric bridge is also the result of 370 failures and unremitting efforts.
6. How is honey brewed?
To brew one kilogram of honey, a bee needs to fly 300,000 kilometers and suck the juice of10.2 million flowers. Every time I come back, I will spit out the juice in my stomach, and another bee will suck it into my stomach. So it hesitated 1.20 to 340 times, and the juice turned into honey. But at this time, honey still has a lot of water, which is not suitable for storage, and bees will always swell. From this point of view, honey is brewed by bees persistently.
7. the iron pestle is ground into a needle
According to legend, Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, was impatient when he was a child and often played truant. One day, he came to the foot of a high mountain and saw an old lady grinding an iron bar. Li Bai was puzzled and asked. The old lady told him to grind an embroidery needle. Li Bai was amazed. How can iron bars be ground into needles? The old lady said: As long as you have perseverance, you are not afraid of failure. Li Bai was deeply inspired. From then on, I studied hard and never slacked off, and finally became a generation of "poetic immortals".
8. Tan Xue learned to copy
In ancient times, there was a man named Xue Tan who learned to sing from singer Qin Qing, but he thought he had learned all the skills of Qin Qing, so he said goodbye to Qin Qing and went home. Qin Qing personally sent him to the suburban road to play the piano and sing farewell songs for him. Qin Qing's high singing echoed in the forest, making the clouds stop to listen. Xue Tan realized that he didn't really learn the teacher's skills, so he apologized to Qin Qing and told him to go back to continue his studies, and never mentioned going home again. Later, he finally became a singer like Qin Qing.
9. Poor and tireless
Wang Chong, an outstanding thinker and writer in Han Dynasty, began to concentrate on reading and writing books in a very poor situation. He has successively written books such as "Great Confucianism, Vulgarity, Righteousness, Politics and Nature". From the age of 34, Wang Chong spent more than 30 years writing a book "On Balance". In order to concentrate on his work, he closed the door and refused all social activities of weddings and funerals. There are knives, pens and bamboo slips all over the shelf on the windowsill of his bedroom. He writes them down as soon as he has an idea. It was not until shortly before his death that he completed this masterpiece which systematically criticized idealism philosophy and theological superstition in Han Dynasty.
10. Life goes on.
Diligence is the characteristic of Qi Baishi's artistic life all his life. In his long-term artistic practice, he has been working hard until he is old. In his painting career of more than 70 years, he painted almost every day. After the age of 27, I was only sick twice, and once I was killed by my parents, I put my pen aside. His diligence is persistent. Even in his later years, he didn't go to bed early. As usual, he gets up at dawn every day and draws some pictures after breakfast. I am really tireless in art. During the spring and summer of his death from 65438 to 0957, his spirit was a little weak, and his health was much worse than before. He refused to accept his old age at all, and stubbornly fought against aging and painted a peony, the king of flowers, which was the last painting he painted in his life.