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. Ma Yun:

Ma Yun is the founder of Alibaba 1999 and has never given up his dream. He once wanted to enter a key primary school, but failed. The key middle school failed. The university spent three years testing; Harvard did not succeed. However, he has perseverance and courage. As the saying goes: "The sword peak has been ground, and the plum blossom fragrance comes from bitter cold." He succeeded through his own efforts. He said: dreams, down to earth, are closely related to tears.

3. Li Bai:

Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, didn't like reading when he was a child. One day, while the teacher was not at home, he sneaked out to play. He came to the river at the foot of the mountain and saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle on a stone. Li Bai was puzzled and asked, "Old woman, what are you doing grinding the iron pestle?" The old woman said, "I am grinding the needle." Li Bai was surprised and asked, "Oh dear! As thick as a pestle, how can it be ground into a needle? "

The old woman smiled and said, "As long as you grind it every day, the pestle will become thinner and thinner. Are you afraid it won't be a needle? " Hearing this, Li Bai was ashamed of himself. He turned and ran back to the bookstore. From then on, he kept in mind the truth that "as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle", studied hard, and finally became a great poet, known as the "Poet Fairy".

4. Edison:

Edison spent ten years developing storage batteries, during which he kept gritting his teeth. After about 50 thousand experiments, he finally succeeded in inventing the battery and was awarded the reputation of "the king of invention"

5. Dickens:

Dickens, a famous British writer, paid great attention to observing life and experiencing it. No matter whether it is windy or rainy, he insists on observing and listening on the street every day, remembering the low-key words of future generations and accumulating rich life materials. In this way, he gave a wonderful description of the dialogue between the characters in david copperfield and left a realistic description of the social background in A Tale of Two Cities. He became an English writer and made brilliant literary achievements. Success.

6. 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.

7.helen keller:

Helen Keller is blind and deaf, and has been trying to change from a sympathetic little girl to a respected woman. If life is really unfair, then life is unfair to her. She can give up her dream and hide in a dark corner and cry. No one will blame her. She can also lie in bed or sit in a wheelchair like a vegetable. But all this, she didn't do it. She just studied hard in blind language and moved things with the help of the teacher. Only her eternal faith and perseverance. She painted her ideal sky with the brightest color in her life.

8. Panasonic:

Panasonic has just fallen into a professional dilemma, and he walked helplessly on the road that day. The conversation between a brother and sister caught his attention. My sister is ironing clothes, and my brother wants to study, but he can't turn on the light because there was only one plug. "Can you turn on the light quickly, so how can I read?" "Well, well, soon." "Everyone agrees that it has been 30 minutes."

Panasonic suddenly thought: it's inconvenient to have only one wire. Why is there no dual-purpose plug? He studied the problem carefully and soon came up with the structure of the dual-purpose plug. After the trial products came out, they sold out quickly, and more and more people ordered them, which was simply in short supply. Since then, Panasonic's career has been on the right track and its profits have increased substantially. Any problem is a good opportunity to stimulate creativity.

9. Hua:

Hua is a famous mathematician in China. He was born in poverty, had no diploma and tutor, and was located in a remote place, but he succeeded.

10, Marx:

Marx, the mentor of the world proletarian revolutionary movement, spent more than 40 years reading Das Kapital and read a lot of materials in the British Museum, but a layer of cement was worn off on the concrete floor under the seat. Through unremitting efforts, Marx finally wrote Das Kapital, which the proletarians all over the world needed.