1, Edison came from a humble background and lived in poverty. His "education" is that he only attended primary school for three months in his life. Because the teacher is always tongue-tied by his strange questions, and even says that he is a fool in front of his mother and will not have any future. Although Edison did not receive a good school education, he achieved great success with his personal struggle and extraordinary intelligence, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-reliance.
Self-taught, he stood up from thousands of failures with perseverance, rare enthusiasm and energy, overcame countless difficulties and became an American inventor and entrepreneur. He invented the automatic telegraph and phonograph; Experiment and improve electric lights (incandescent lamps) and telephones. In his life, there was a new invention every 15 days on average, so he was called "the king of inventions".
Writer Helen Keller is deaf, paralyzed, unable to speak or see, but she works with indomitable spirit and can do housework independently. Visible, Helen Keller's self-reliance ability is how strong!
Rockefeller is the third generation of Rockefeller family, the youngest, the best and the most capable among the brothers. His career is not in oil, but in the famous Manhattan Bank, ranking sixth among the top ten banks in the world. After he became the chairman and general manager of the bank's executive committee, he increased the bank's capital from $2 billion to $3.4 billion in net assets.
David was born in new york. At that time, although his family had hundreds of millions of property, the children could only get pocket money of 30 cents a week. At the same time, everyone should prepare a small account book according to his father's request and register the use of 30 cents on it. After investigation, if they use it reasonably, they can still get rewards. Children's pocket money increases with age: when they are eleven or twelve, they can get one dollar a week, and when they are fifteen, they can get about two dollars a week. So when David grew up and left home, he had a lot of books.
David's father deliberately put his children under financial pressure in order to educate them to understand the value of money from an early age. Pocket money is very limited, and there is only one way to earn it yourself.