In America, there is a poor young man who sticks to his dream wholeheartedly, even though all his money is not enough to buy a decent suit. He wants to be an actor, make a movie and be a star. At that time, there were 500 film companies in Hollywood, and he had more than one family. Later, he went to visit with his tailor-made script according to his carefully delineated route and arranged list order. But for the first time, none of the 500 film companies wanted to hire him.

Faced with 100% rejection, the young man didn't lose heart. After coming out of the last rejected film company, he resumed his second visit and self-recommendation from the first one. On his second visit, 500 film companies still rejected him. The results of the third round of visits remain the same as those of the second round. The young man gritted his teeth and began his fourth visit. After visiting house 349, the boss of film company 350 promised to let him leave the script for the first time. A few days later, I informed the young man and asked him to discuss it in detail. It was in this discussion that the company decided to invest in filming and let the young man play the leading role in his script. The film is called Rocky. The young man's name is Sylvester Stallone. Now let's look at the history of movies. The movie Rocky and the superstar who will be popular all over the world are on the list.

2. The mission of the oak tree

In a place that may be anytime and anywhere, there is a beautiful garden full of apple trees, orange trees, pear trees and roses. They all live happily and contentedly. All the members in the garden are happy, except for a small oak tree, which looks sad. The poor little guy is troubled by a problem, that is, he doesn't know who he is. The apple tree thinks it is not attentive enough. "If you really work hard, you will surely bear delicious apples. Look how easy it is! " "Rose said," don't listen to it. It's easier to open roses. Look how beautiful it is! The disappointed little tree worked hard according to their suggestions, but the more it wanted to be like others, the more it felt like a failure. One day, Diao, a wise man among birds, came to the garden. After hearing the little tree's confusion, he said, "don't worry, your problem is not serious." Many creatures on earth face the same problem. " Let me tell you what to do.

Don't waste your life to be what others want you to be. You are yourself. You should try to know yourself. If you want to do this, you should listen to your inner voice. "Say that finish, sculpture flew away. The little tree said to himself, "Be myself? Know yourself? Listen to your inner voice? " Suddenly, the little tree opened its eyes and heart, and finally heard its inner voice: "You will never bear an apple, because you are not an apple tree;" "You won't blossom every day every year because you are not a rose. You are an oak tree, and your destiny is to grow tall and straight, give shelter to birds, give shade to tourists and create a beautiful environment. You have your mission, go and finish it! " The little tree suddenly felt full of strength and self-confidence, and it began to work hard to achieve its goal. Soon it grew into a big oak tree, occupying its own space and winning everyone's respect. At this time, every life in the garden is really happy. In life, everyone has his own mission and his own position. Don't let anything or anyone stop us from understanding and enjoying the beautiful meaning of our existence.

3, the way out and retreat

Dai Mosini, a famous ancient Greek orator, hid in a basement to practice his eloquence in order to improve his speaking ability when he was young. Because I can't stand loneliness, I want to go out for a walk from time to time, and I can't calm down. The effect of practice is very poor. In desperation, he bent down and waved scissors to cut off half his hair, thus becoming a strange "head of yin and yang". Because his hair was too shy to meet people, he had to completely give up the idea of going out to play, practice eloquence wholeheartedly, and his speech level advanced by leaps and bounds. It is with this spirit of concentration and persistence that Demesne finally became a world-famous speaker. 1830, the French writer Hugo signed a contract with the publishing house to hand over a work within six months. In order to ensure that he could concentrate on writing, Hugo locked all his clothes except the sweater he was wearing in the cupboard and threw the key into the lake. In this way, because he couldn't get the clothes to wear when he went out, he completely broke the idea of going out to meet his friends and plunged into the novel. He never left his desk except eating and sleeping. As a result, his work was released two weeks early. And this work, which was completed in only five months, is the world-famous literary masterpiece Notre Dame de Paris. If a person wants to do a good job and achieve something, he must concentrate on pursuing the set goals. On the long road of life, when it is difficult for us to control our inertia and desire and concentrate on moving forward, we might as well cut off our retreat and force ourselves to go all out to find a way out. Often, it is easier to win the way out and eventually succeed only if you don't leave a backward path.

4. There are eyes everywhere

Schwarzenegger is running for the governor of California, and even I lament that Lao Shi has a good eye. California is a good place in America. There is an old song called Sunshine in California in Zhang Qingfang, Taiwan Province. The artistic conception in the song is simply the legendary Shangri-La. As soon as Lao Shi said that he wanted to be the governor of California, political opponents immediately stood up and said that if Lao Shi could be the governor, so could his pet dog. Even so, Californians still believe in this "terminator", and the votes are far ahead of his competitors. But now things seem wrong. First, some people accused Lao Shi of allegedly "insulting and molesting" women during his acting. It's true. Lao Shi came forward to admit it and said "sorry" to the victim. This wave is uneven, and that wave starts again. In a speech on 1975, someone accused Lao Shi of worshipping Nazi leader Hitler, because Hitler also changed from a nobody to a "head of state".

After the incident was disclosed by the mainstream media in the United States, it caused an uproar. "US Congressman Tom lantos said that it was' unreasonable' for Schwarzenegger to worship a person who endangered tens of millions of people, and he thought that this incident was enough to destroy Schwarzenegger's' political ambition'," Xinhua said. You say that the American election is a "show", but you have to admit that such a "show" is cruel. Lao Shi can't remember where he said such a thing 28 years ago. How old was Lao Shi 28 years ago? That's when you were young and frivolous, you talked too much, and then you will pursue it 28 years later. This is really amazing, and you have to admit that Americans are too serious. I think what Schwarzenegger said 28 years ago has been found out, so what others have done will naturally be mastered. Old birthdays, bad habits, family members, drinking records, etc. Are well known to voters. Lao Shi is now invisible, which is the price of wanting to be governor of California. Everyone has his own right to privacy. To put it bluntly, it is a person's face. Without face, being a man is no fun, so Sartre said, "Others are hell." Sartre means that when a person is surrounded by other people's eyes, you have actually gone to hell. Unfortunately, Schwarzenegger is in full view, and he is now on the brink of hell. What happened in California has nothing to do with us, but such a critical eye makes me deeply touched and worth pondering: when it comes to public opinion supervision, isn't that what we lack?

5. Dig a well for yourself

Two young monks live in temples on two adjacent mountains. There is a stream between the mountains. They go down the mountain to fetch water at the same time every day. As time went on, they became familiar with each other. Unconsciously, five years have passed. Suddenly one day, the monk on the left mountain didn't go down to fetch water. The monk on the right mountain thought: He probably overslept. Who knows that the next day, the third day, I still didn't see him go down the mountain to carry water. A week has passed and a month has passed, and the monk on Zuoshan is still missing. The monk on the right mountain finally couldn't help it. He decided to see what had happened. When he came to the temple in Zuoshan, he was surprised, because his friend was practicing Tai Ji Chuan, and his spirit was very good, unlike a man who had not drunk water for a month. He asked curiously, "You haven't carried water down the mountain for a month. Can you not drink water? " The monk who practiced boxing smiled and said, "Let me show you."

So he took the monk from the mountain on the right to the backyard of the temple, pointed to a well and said, "In the past five years, after I finished my homework every day, I took time to dig this well. Even if I am busy sometimes, I will insist on digging a little. A month ago, the clear water finally came out of the well, and I didn't have to go down the mountain to fetch water, so I could spare more time to practice my favorite Tai Ji Chuan. " I think, should we also dig a well for ourselves? Maybe you will say that you are too busy to spare the time. Maybe you will think that well is useless to you. In fact, in your hectic life, even if you spare a little time to read a few more pages every day, learn more practical knowledge and pay more attention to things that others usually don't care about, inadvertently, your accumulation may help you at critical moments. "Water drops make a sea, and a dragon makes a living." Don't underestimate that little gain. Maybe because of this little effort, you are ahead of others. Remember, the first step is full of gold, pay more attention to the time that slips away from you and race against time, then you will not be far from success. So, dear friends, don't forget to dig a well for yourself at any time. Just like that clever little monk, he has more time to practice his favorite Tai Ji Chuan while others are still carrying water day after day.

6. This will pass.

There was a king in ancient Greece who had supreme power and enjoyed endless prosperity, but he was not happy. He can dominate his subjects, but it is difficult to control his emotions. All kinds of inexplicable anxiety and depression make him unhappy and insomnia from time to time. So he called Sophie, the most famous wise man at that time, and asked him to find out the most philosophical motto in the world. Moreover, if this sentence embodies the wisdom of life, it must have a shocking effect, which can make people win without arrogance, lose with grace, get carried away, be frustrated without hurting the spirit, and always maintain a normal heart. Sophie promised the king on condition that he would give him the ring he was wearing. A few days later, Sophie returned the ring to the king and repeatedly advised him not to take out the jewels set in the ring easily unless absolutely necessary, otherwise it would be useless.

Soon, neighboring countries invaded on a large scale, and the king led a desperate battle. Eventually the whole city-state fell into the enemy, so the king fled everywhere. One day, in order to avoid the attack of enemy soldiers, he hid in the grass by the river. When he scooped water to quench his thirst, he suddenly saw his reflection, and his heart ached-who could believe that this unkempt and ragged man was the once majestic king? Just as he was about to throw himself into the river with his hands hidden, he thought of the ring. He eagerly dug up the gem on it, only to see a sentence engraved in it-all this will pass! Suddenly, a spark of hope lit up in the king's heart. Since then, I have endured humiliation and heavy burdens, recruited the old army again, made a comeback, and finally drove away foreign enemies and won back the kingdom. When he returned to the palace again, the first thing he did was to carve the five-word motto "This too shall pass" on the throne symbolizing the throne. Later, he went down in history as the smartest king. It is said that when he died, he deliberately left a will: his hands were exposed outside the coffin after death, in order to show the world the five-character motto.

7. Flight after experience

On the vast Amazon plain, there lived an eagle named carved eagle, known as the "king of flying". It has a long flight time, fast speed and agile movements, and is the best among eagles. Small animals found by it are generally difficult to escape its capture. But who would have thought that there was a drop of blood behind the gorgeous flight. When a baby eagle is born, it does not enjoy a few comfortable days, and it will be brutally trained by its mother. With the help of the mother eagle, the young eagle will soon be able to fly alone, but this is only the first step, because this kind of flying is only a little better than crawling. Young eagles need hundreds of trainings, otherwise, they can't get food from their mothers. In the second step, the mother eagle takes the young eagle to a high place, or at the edge of a tree or a cliff, and then throws them down. Some baby eagles were killed by their mothers because they were timid. But the mother eagle will not stop training them. Mother eagle knows that without such training, children can't fly high in the blue sky, and even if they can, it's hard to catch food and starve to death.

The third step is full of cruelty and terror. Those young eagles who are pushed off the cliff by the mother eagle and can successfully fly will face the final, most critical and most difficult test, because most of their growing wings will be cruelly broken by the mother eagle and then pushed down from a height again. Many young eagles will become tragic sacrifices to fly at this time, but the mother eagle will not stop this "bloody" training, because although there are painful tears in her eyes, it is also. Out of sympathy, some hunters secretly took some young eagles home to feed them before their wings were broken by the mother eagle. But later the hunter found that carved eagle, who had been fed and raised, would fall as high as the house at most. Those two-meter-long wings have become a burden. It turns out that the mother eagle cruelly broke most of the bones in the wings of the young eagle, which is the key to determine whether the young eagle can fly freely in the vast sky in the future. Carved eagle's pterygoid bone has a strong regenerative ability. As long as they can endure severe pain and continue to flap their wings after being broken, they will recover soon. After rehabilitation, their wings will grow stronger and stronger like the mythical phoenix reborn after death. If not, carved eagle will lose its only chance and will never be connected with the blue sky. No one can help carved eagle fly, except itself.

8, salmon to fish

My friend drove me from West Vancouver to North Vancouver, passing by a bridge, stopping specially and walking to the bridge to see the river. The river is no different, clear and leisurely through the Woods. "In autumn, the whole river turns red, so the locals also call it the Blood River," said a friend. It turns out that in September every year, salmon in the sea begin to spawn against the current. Salmon's head is turquoise, its back is blue-gray and its abdomen is silvery white. But when it reaches the upper reaches of the stream during the spawning season, its whole body will turn red, becoming more and more red, as red as maple leaves falling in autumn.

In the process of crowding upstream, some salmon will die of exhaustion halfway; Some skins will break, revealing blood-red meat; Others will be eaten by birds and animals along the way; Only a few people can finally lay eggs upstream. A Buddhist friend said that the first time I went to the river to watch salmon swim back, I saw the fierce scene and the color of maple leaves and blood, and I couldn't help but be moved to tears. Now he is standing on the clear bridge deck of the river, as if he had seen the shocking picture at that time. Why did salmon swim back from the sea? So far, scientists have not completely solved this mystery. However, my friend has a very romantic and emotional saying. He said: "Salmon is going back to its hometown, so salmon can also be said to be a kind of fish." Salmon was born in the source of rivers and swam to the sea constantly during its growth. Although I can live freely in the sea, I always struggle to swim back to my hometown in the last season, lay eggs in fresh water and even die. Newborn salmon don't have enough food in the river, so they grow up on their mother's body as soon as they are born. The friend said, "It's a pity that you didn't come to Vancouver in autumn, otherwise you could see the magnificent scene." Although I can't see the magnificent scene, it seems that I came in person just by imagination. Not just fish! All sentient beings in the world inevitably have complex feelings for their hometown, calling for the "return" of all sentient beings in a certain time and space, but few sentient beings have chosen such a heroic, regretless and beautiful way like salmon. We can see our faces in the river where the salmon comes home.

9. Doctoral thesis

A doctor of sociology was confused when doing his graduation thesis, because when he summarized two materials with the same nature, he found that the conclusions were contradictory. One is 4,800 questionnaires provided by magazines, asking: What plays a decisive role in maintaining marriage (love, children, sex, income, others)? 90% people answer love. But judging from the information provided by the civil court of the hospital, this is not the case at all. Among 4800 cases of divorce by agreement, less than 10% divorced because of the complete breakdown of feelings. He found that most of them were separated by trivial matters. For example, case 000 1: the divorcees are old people, teachers and doctors. The direct reason for their divorce is that the man is a heavy smoker and the woman is not used to it; Women are vegetarians, but men can't stand it. Another example is case 0002: the divorced couple are college classmates, who have been in love for three years at school and later separated in the same city. They divorced after five years of marriage. The direct reason is that the man's hometown is in the countryside, his parents are in poor health and there are many sisters. Everything depends on him, and all his classmates and friends have entered the well-off ranks. Their family is still living a tight life, and the woman's heart is not smooth and she often quarrels. As a result, she broke up

Another example is case 4800: the husband and wife have only been married for half a year. Men are policemen. They like to open windows when they sleep, but women don't. The woman is a nurse and likes to take a bath once a day, but the man doesn't. The two often have conflicts for this, and as a result, they agree to divorce. Originally, the doctor thought he had chosen an easy topic, and only after getting these real materials did he find out how difficult it is to make a dialectical relationship between love and marriage. He went to consult his tutor. The tutor said that you'd better consult those golden-married old people, who are the experts. So, he went into the park near the university to meet the old people who came here for morning exercise, but their experience disappointed him. Apart from the old tune of tolerance, tolerance and appreciation, he did not talk about the dialectical relationship between love and marriage at all. However, in the comparison, the doctor also made a small discovery, that is, some people failed in marriage, not because they found the wrong person, but because they didn't understand it from the beginning. When they choose love, they also choose a way of life. It is this lifestyle that determines the harmony of marriage. Some people don't see this, and finally let two people who are still in love embark on the road of breaking up. It is said that the doctoral supervisor passed the doctoral thesis defense because he found few.

10, no one can change my promise.

After work, Carl Willip, president of PepsiCo, received a phone call from the mayor and invited him to a dinner party. He declined without hesitation: "I'm sorry, I have already made an appointment to spend my birthday with my daughter tonight." I don't want to be a father who stood me up. " Out of the office building, Carl bought a birthday present for his daughter, drove straight to the newly opened amusement park in the city center, and celebrated her birthday with his wife. In order to avoid being disturbed, Carl and his wife both turned off their mobile phones. They accompanied their daughter wholeheartedly and enjoyed this happy festival happily. Carl was watching his daughter blow out the red candle and began to cut the cake with great interest. His assistant came in a hurry. He called Carl aside and whispered that a very important customer of our company wanted to see him tonight.

"But I have promised my daughter that I will stay with her all night." Carl looked reluctant. "The parties really didn't agree before. He only stayed here for a short time. Meeting with the president is a temporary decision ... "The assistant gently suggested. What shall we do? On the one hand, my daughter who has been having fun with me for two hours, and on the other hand, an important client of the company is waiting for an appointment. Carl didn't hesitate. He turned to his assistant and said, "I think I should be with my daughter." You should receive customers and convey my sincere apologies. Make an appointment with him and I will visit him myself. " "Mr. Carr, would you like to go first ..." The assistant reminded the president that this customer is too important to offend. Otherwise, we won't find it in a hurry. "Dad, you go to work first. My mother is as happy as I am. " The daughter who knows the inside story understands her father very well and urges him to meet the customer. "No, I have already said, I don't want to be a father who stood me up. Tonight, the mayor's banquet and the client's appointment are really important, but the promise I made to my daughter a month ago is even more important. No one can change the promise I made. " Carl's firmness made the assistant give up the idea of continuing persuasion. The next day, the first thing Carl did at work was to call the customer to apologize. Instead of being angry, the customer sincerely praised, "Mr. Carl, actually, I want to thank you." It was your actions that made me really remember the value of the promise, and I understood the real reason why Pepsi flourished. " Since then, Carl and this customer have become very close partners, and their trust in each other has never wavered even when the company encountered the greatest difficulties.