Stories of celebrities who turned stress into motivation

Stories of famous people who turned pressure into motivation:

1. Jia Pingwa

Jia Pingwa

When Jia Pingwa was studying in the Chinese Department of the university, he began to Literary creation, he published poems in the school newspaper one after another, and gradually submitted his works to newspapers and periodicals in society. Although at that time he received much more rejection slips than manuscript fee slips, he was not discouraged and continued to read books as always. , writing, submitting, and finally succeeded.

In the past 20 years, he has written seven to eight million words of works with his clever pen, published sixty or seventy books, and won dozens of domestic and foreign literary awards.

2. Che Yin

During the Jin Dynasty, Che Yin was eager to learn since childhood. However, due to his poor family, his father could not provide him with a good learning environment. In order to maintain food and clothing, there was no extra money to buy lamp oil for him to study at night. For this reason, he could only use this time during the day to recite poetry. One night in the summer, he was memorizing an article in the yard when he suddenly saw many fireflies flying in the low sky. The twinkling lights looked a bit dazzling in the darkness.

He thought, if many fireflies were gathered together, wouldn’t they become a lamp? So, he went to find a white silk bag, and then grabbed dozens of fireflies and put them in it. Then tie the mouth of the bag and hang it up. Although it's not very bright, it can barely be used for reading. From then on, whenever there were fireflies, he would grab one and use it as a lamp. Because of his diligent study and practice, he finally became a high-ranking official.

3. Pavlov

Throughout his life, Pavlov regarded the struggle for science as his due obligation and responsibility, and was willing to do "scientific hard work". When he was a child, Pavlov and his brother dug a hole to plant an apple tree together. The hole was already dug, but his father took a look and said it was in the wrong position, so he dug it again. The younger brother put down the shovel and stopped working, but Pavlov started digging again, ignoring the blood blisters on his hands. He didn't stop until the pit was dug and the apple tree was planted.

Later, Pavlov became a physiologist and spent all day studying the conditioned responses of dogs in the laboratory. He often uses his salary to buy dogs for experiments. When dissecting a dog, it takes four or five hours. He very carefully counted the dog's saliva flowing out of the glass tube and recorded it in detail in his notebook.

A new assistant felt monotonous and bored after counting for a while, but Pavlov solemnly said to him:

"If science needs it, count him." Ten years, twenty years!" When Pavlov was eighty-seven years old, he contracted hepatitis and later pneumonia, but he was still doing "scientific hard work." He also regretted that he had not fully fulfilled his obligations to mankind as a scientist.

4. Kuang Heng

There was a man named Kuang Heng. His family was poor and could not afford candles, so he could not read at night. Kuang Heng's neighbor's house lit candles every night. He wanted to go to his neighbor's house to study, but he was refused. Later, Kuang Heng came up with a good idea. He cut a small hole in the wall, and the light from the neighbor's house came through. He pointed the book to the light and started reading. Kuang Heng read more and more books, but he had no money to buy books.

One day, he found a talented person’s house with a lot of books piled up in his house. He went to help the talented person’s family work for free. The talented person was very surprised and asked him: Why are you working in vain? ! Kuang Heng didn't hide anything and said, "I'll help you work. I don't want to get paid. I just want to borrow your book and read it. Do you agree?" "The master was very happy and lent him the books at home. Kuang Heng became a learned man.

5. Sacco

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French President Sarkozy was born into an immigrant family in Paris, France, on January 28, 1955. He suffered discrimination and ridicule from others since he was a child. One day when he was 10 years old, he was riding his beloved mountain bike through the countryside. Just when he was proud, several children stopped him, grabbed his mountain bike, threw it to the ground, and pointed at his nose and said: "You, a foreign kid, don't deserve to ride a mountain bike!"< /p>

In the evening, he wrote in his diary: "I don't want to be the president, but I have to be the president. "At the age of 15, Sarkozy bid farewell to school due to family poverty. In the following years, he herded sheep, worked as a band trumpeter, a mason, a sugar factory worker, etc. He cried and was discouraged, but he never He never flinched.

Later, he was admitted to the Paris Institute of Science through work-study. After graduation, he worked hard in the business world with his classmates.

Years later, he decided to leave and embark on the road to politics. In 1983, at the age of 28, Sarkozy was elected mayor of Neuilly, a suburb of Paris. In May 2007, Sarkozy won the French presidential election. He was elected as the new French president and finally fulfilled his presidential dream.