Zhuge Liang studied the art of war with Mr. Shui Jing who lived in seclusion in the south of Xiangyang when he was young. Mr. Shuijing keeps a rooster. When the rooster crowed three times at noon, Mr. Shuijing dismissed the class. Zhuge Liang doesn't like this lecture very much.

Later, he thought of a way to sew a pocket on his trousers and put a few handfuls of millet in his pocket every day when he went to school. Near noon, he quietly sprinkled a handful of millet out of the window.

When the cock saw the millet in Huang Cancan, he was too lazy to crow and pecked. Just after pecking, Zhuge Liang sprinkled another handful until he finished sprinkling the millet in his pocket. When the rooster finished eating the millet in his pocket before crowing, Mr. Shuijing talked for another hour.

I can make my teacher's mother hungry. After a long time, I couldn't help complaining: "Why did you get it so late? I didn't know I was hungry until noon! " "Didn't you hear the cock crow?" Mr. water mirror said. Teacher Niang is a smart person and knows there must be secrets in it.

At noon the next day, she quietly came to the yard. Just as the cock with a flower neck was about to cran its neck to crow, someone sprinkled a handful of millet from the window of the study. She went up to him, looked at it carefully, and then quietly went home.

On this day, when Mr. Shuijing came back, Teacher Niang smiled and said, "You might as well be a gentleman as Xiao Zhuge." So she told Mr. Water Mirror what she had just seen.

Hearing this, Mr. Shuijing laughed again and thought that Zhuge Liang was really smart and would be a genius in the future. After studying hard, Zhuge Liang finally became an outstanding politician and strategist, and helped Liu Bei establish the Shu-Han regime.

2. reach? Sparrows

A famous painter in the European Renaissance? Finch, I've loved painting since I was a child. His father sent him to Florence, a famous Italian city at that time, to learn from the famous painter Fo Rocchio. The teacher asked him to start by drawing eggs.

He painted for more than ten days. Seeing that he was getting impatient, the teacher said to him, "Don't think it's easy to draw an egg. You know, 1000 eggs are not two identical.

Even the same egg. As long as you look at the shape from another angle, it will be different, and the oval outline of the egg will be different. So it should be perfectly represented on the drawings.

You must work hard. "Since then, da? Finch devoted himself to sketch, and after a long period of hard and diligent artistic practice, he finally created many immortal famous paintings.

3. Balzac

Balzac is a prolific writer. His time is never empty. Once, Balzac was so tired that he said to a friend, "I'll take a nap. You can wake me up in an hour."

An hour passed, and my friend really couldn't bear to wake him up. Balzac woke up and found that more than an hour had passed. He almost said to his friend in a rage, "Why didn't you wake me up?" How much time it took me! "

He usually writes 16 or 17 hours every day, shuts himself in his room, and his servant brings in three meals a day through a special window. 1850, 5 1 year old, he felt that he was going to have a heart attack.

He asked the doctor how long he could live, six months or six weeks? The doctor shook his head and answered. Balzac said anxiously, "At least six days will do, right? I can also write an outline and revise the 50 volumes that have been published. "

4. Sima Guang

When Sima Guang was a child in a private school, he always thought he was not smart enough. He even thinks his memory is worse than others. In order to train his memory, he often spends two or three times more time memorizing and reciting things in books than others.

Whenever the teacher finishes reading this book, other students can recite it after reading it for a while and then run out to play. Sima Guang stayed at school alone, closed the window and continued to read and recite carefully until he understood everything.

When you close a book, you won't stop until you can recite it word for word. He also used all his spare time, such as riding a horse, or when he couldn't sleep at night, while meditating and thinking about the content of the article.

Over time, not only can he memorize what he has learned, but his memory is getting better and better. What he learned when he was young will never be forgotten. He studied meticulously and worked hard since childhood, which laid a solid foundation for his later writing.

Sima Guang devoted himself to research and writing all his life, often forgetting hunger, thirst, cold and heat. Where he lives, apart from books, there are only simple furnishings: a bed, a coarse quilt and a pillow made of logs.

Why use logs as pillows? It turns out that Sima Guang often studies late. When he is tired of reading, he will sleep for a while, but when he sleeps, he will turn over. When he rolls over, the pillow will roll to one side.

At this time, his head will hit the board by himself, and people will wake up with such vibration. So he immediately put on his clothes, lit a candle and continued reading. Later, he took the log pillow as a thoughtful thing and named it "police pillow".

5. Shakespeare

He was born in a rich family, his father is a mayor, and he likes to go to the theatre. He often invites some troupes to perform in the town. Every time, Shakespeare was fascinated. When there is no performance in town.

He asked the children to imitate the characters and plots in the play. He also wrote, directed and acted some things that happened in the town, and showed extraordinary drama talent at an early age.

Later, his father went bankrupt because of investment failure, and 13-year-old Shakespeare embarked on the road of making a living alone. He was a soldier, an apprentice, a bricklayer, a coolie, an aristocratic housekeeper and a rural teacher.

In his hurry to support his family, he made a careful observation of various characters and recorded their conversations with great personality, which accumulated material for his later creation. Shakespeare came to London at the age of 22.

The strong pursuit of drama led him to find a job as a janitor in a theater. At first, he just showed horses and cars to the dignitaries in the theater. After that, he used the tips he earned to transfer them to some children to help him finish his work.

Personally, he took time to go to the theatre to see the performance. Slowly, Shakespeare began to play a walk-on and a supporting role. He is very happy about this, because it allows him to watch the actors' performances more closely on the stage.

Later, Shakespeare became a "clue". Hiding in props, while doing his job well, he also took time to record his impression of each actor's performance. Just as Shakespeare became an official actor, the plague began to spread in Europe.

Thousands of people died and the theater was forced to close. The boss and the actors went out to avoid the plague, but Shakespeare chose to stay and guard the theater. During the two years of extreme economic depression, Shakespeare spent time reading a lot of books.

I sorted out the notes of various periods, revised several scripts and started the creation of new plays. When Britain's economy recovered and performances flourished again, Shakespeare's plays became very popular and he became the most outstanding actor himself.