According to historical records, Confucius' mother taught him to read and write when he was just three years old. By the time he was four years old, he could already read more than 100 words.
One day, his mother said, "Can you recite the words I taught you yesterday?"
Kong Qiu said, "I remember everything."
Mother said, "well, I'll test you tomorrow morning."
Kong Qiu sleeps with his brother. That night, after he went to bed, he said to his younger brother, "Brother, have you remembered everything your mother taught you?"
My brother said, "I remember everything. What about you? "
Kong Qiu said, "I've practiced many times, and I may have memorized it, but I'm not sure. My mother will test me tomorrow morning. If not, she will be very sad. No, I must get up and practice more. "
The younger brother was moved by his spirit of studying hard and being filial to his mother. He said with distress, "It's cold. If you don't get up to practice, just write it on your stomach." I can feel right and wrong, so I can check what you wrote! "
So little Kong Qiu wrote on his brother's chest. Whenever you write a word, read it out loud. But the voice grew louder and louder, and when he finished writing the last word, the voice could not be heard. After checking the last sentence, my brother listened to his even breathing and watched him smile sweetly and lovingly.
The next morning, when his mother took the exam, he passed again. The mother was surprised and said, "This child is really amazing. He taught him so many words the day before yesterday, and only one day later, he knew everything. He will surely do great things in the future! "
Kong Qiu looked at her mother's happy face and smiled happily. However, in this smile, there are two lines of tears.
My brother standing by knows him well and knows that behind his superhuman talent, more is my brother's perseverance and hard work.
Genius comes from diligence.
Someone asked the master in the temple, "Why do you knock wooden fish when chanting Buddha?" The master said, "It's called knocking fish, but it's actually knocking people." "Why don't you knock on chickens and sheep? Why knock the fish? " The master smiled and said, "Fish is the most diligent animal in the world. It swims around with its eyes open all day. Such a diligent fish should always be caught, let alone a lazy person! "
Laziness is a very tempting monster, and everyone will encounter this monster in his life. For example, I can't get up in bed in the morning, I don't want to do anything after getting up, I don't want to do things that can be put off until tomorrow, I don't want to do things that can be put off to others, I don't want to understand things that I don't understand, and I don't want to do things that I can't do. Laziness is the most difficult enemy for mankind to overcome. Many things that could have been done missed the chance of success because of laziness and procrastination again and again.
The master in the temple said beating people, which is what we are talking about now. If you want to be diligent all your life, you must constantly push yourself to overcome laziness.
Liang Shiqiu told a very vivid story: In the Tang Dynasty, there was a Zen master named Huaihai. When approaching Mazu, he should impress people and be diligent. He made a hundred rules, and he faithfully followed them. "If you don't do it for a day, you won't eat for a day." Every day he doesn't work, every day he really doesn't eat. Why can Zen master Huai Hai be diligent? It is precisely because he has profound beliefs and ambitions that he urges him.
Diligence is not born, but cultivated by oneself. Once a person has ambition and belief, he will be diligent. Marx spent 40 years working hard and then translated Das Kapital. In order to possess the materials in detail, he carefully studied and summarized 1500 books. He always takes a notebook with him when he goes out for a walk, and writes down what he sees, thinks and finds useful from time to time. He often walks up and down indoors, thinking while walking. Over the years, he trampled the carpet between the doors and windows into a shallow ditch, like a narrow road through the grass. After diligent study and research, he finally finished the first, second and third drafts of Das Kapital before his death.
The story of Marx's Das Kapital tells people that "diligence comes from ambition". Here are a few more stories about "Genius comes from diligence". It is said that there were "three eccentrics" in the pear garden in the late Qing Dynasty, all of which were successful because of hard work.
The blind man, Shuang Kuoting, started playing in primary school and became blind due to illness. Since then, he has studied harder and practiced basic skills. He needs help when he walks off the stage, but he never walks on the stage. His acting skills are superb. Finally, he became a famous student with deep foundation.
The other is Meng Hongshou, a cripple. When he was a child, he suffered from rickets, with short legs, small head, big feet and unstable walking. So he made up his mind to study hard, practice hard, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, and later became a clown master in one fell swoop.
There is also a mute Wang Yifen, born unable to speak. He watched his parents' performances on weekdays and remembered them one by one. Although no one teaches him, he gets up early every day and practices in the dark all the year round. After his artistic achievements, he became a blockbuster, became a famous Wu Hualian in the theater, and was regarded as a mentor by the troupe.
Genius comes from diligence. Three disabled people created their best selves through hard work. If we all have the fighting spirit of the "three eccentrics", what else can't be done in the world?
Li Shizhen, a famous medical doctor in Ming Dynasty, failed in three attempts. Later, he decided to study medicine and worked hard, and finally wrote the masterpiece Compendium of Materia Medica. There are many such examples.
Most people who make a difference have an inseparable fate with diligence. Diligence can shape great men and create the best self. We can find some chances of success from outstanding great men at all times and in all countries. Those who can create the best of themselves, although their efforts are different, are diligent and not lazy, but they are the same.
Talent comes from diligence
People's talent is not born, but earned by unremitting efforts and diligence. The world famous scientists Hawking and Nobel are good examples.
Stephen Hawking 1942 1.8 was born in Oxford, England, which is a special day. Galileo, the founder of modern science, died on the same day 300 years ago. He was terminally ill when he was young, but he persevered, overcame his pain and became a world-famous scientist.
Hawking went to Cambridge University for postgraduate study after graduating from Oxford University. At this time, he was diagnosed as "Luger's disease" and soon became completely paralyzed. 1985 Hawking underwent tracheal surgery for pneumonia. After that, he couldn't speak at all, and he could only talk to people with a small dialogue machine and a speech synthesizer installed in a wheelchair. Reading must rely on a page turning machine. When reading a document, you need to ask someone to spread every page on a big table, but then he reads it page by page in a wheelchair like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves. ...
However, Hawking will not give up his desire for learning because of a minor illness. It is in this incredible hardship that ordinary people have become the giants of gravitational physics recognized by the world. Hawking is a Luxun professor of mathematics at Cambridge University. His black hole evaporation theory and quantum cosmology not only shocked natural science, but also had a far-reaching impact on philosophy and religion. Hawking also published A Brief History of Time, 1988, in April, and has distributed 5.5 million copies in 33 languages. Nowadays in the west, people who claim to be educated will be looked down upon if they have not read this book.
Nobel's father was a brilliant mechanic and inventor, but he suffered setbacks repeatedly because of poor management. Later, a fire destroyed all the possessions, and life was completely down and out, so we had to borrow money to live. In order to avoid creditors, my father left home and went to Russia to make a living. Nobel's two brothers sell matches in the street to earn money to support their families. Because of the hardship of life, Nobel was born sickly, and his poor health made him unable to be as lively and cheerful as other children. He often acts as a bystander when other children play together. The environment of his childhood made him withdrawn and introverted.
Nobel didn't go to school until he was eight years old, but he only studied for one year, which was the only formal school education he received. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to Petersburg, Russia. In Russia, because of the language barrier, Nobel and his two brothers could not enter the local school, so they had to hire a Swedish tutor to guide them to learn Russian, English, French, German and other languages. The frail Nobel studied very hard, and his studious attitude not only won the praise of teachers, but also won the love of his father and brothers. However, when he 15 years old, the three brothers had to stop studying because of family financial difficulties and could not afford the tuition. Nobel came to the factory run by his father as an assistant. He observed carefully and thought carefully, and all the important knowledge he heard and saw was keenly absorbed by him.
In order to study more, he went abroad to study 1850. In two years, he has been to Germany, France, Italy and the United States. because of him