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.

2. Alexander

Alexander the Great divided all his property among 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.

3. Edison

Edison spent ten years developing the storage battery, but after repeated failures, he persisted. After about 50 thousand experiments, he finally succeeded in inventing the battery and was awarded the reputation of "the king of invention"

4. Van Gogh

Van Gogh's persistent dream of painting, although it is a pity that his works were not appreciated before his death, persisted in his dream and painted the pictures he wanted in an indifferent and poor environment, which was really human.

Step 5 be possessed

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 going to the streets to observe and listen every day, recording the odds and ends of pedestrians and accumulating rich living materials. In this way, he wrote a wonderful description of the dialogue between characters in david copperfield and left a vivid description of the social background in A Tale of Two Cities, thus becoming a generation of British writers and achieving great success in his literary career.