People who succeed by paying attention to details

1. Einstein insisted on the Theory of Relativity - Upholding the truth requires self-confidence

After Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" was published, someone once created a book "Hundred People Refute the Theory of Relativity", which gathered a group of so-called celebrities to criticize this theory Make a vigorous rebuttal. But Einstein was confident that his theory would surely win, and he dismissed refutations. He said: "If my theory is wrong, one refutation is enough, and a hundred zeros add up to zero." He was determined. The belief that he must win and his persistence in research finally made the "theory of relativity" a great theory of the 20th century, attracting worldwide attention.

2. Madame Curie and radium - Only with confidence can we overcome the immediate difficulties and see the bright future

In order to extract pure radium in order to determine the atomic weight of radium and confirm the existence of radium to science, Madame Curie wore clothes all day long. Wearing work clothes stained with dust and stains, she stirred the smelting pot with an iron bar almost as tall as herself in a very simple shed, looking for traces of radium in the mountains of asphalt mine waste. The conditions were extremely difficult, but she was full of confidence.

She said to her friends: "We should have perseverance, especially self-confidence! We must believe that our talents are used to do something, no matter how high the cost, this kind of thing must be done." "She finally succeeded.

3. Einstein built confidence from vertical comparisons - gain confidence by comparing yourself with your past self

When the great scientist Einstein was in elementary school, after a labor class, all his classmates turned in Only Einstein did not submit his own work. It was not until the next day that he sent a crudely made small bench. The teacher looked very dissatisfied and said: "I don't think there is a worse little bench in the world than this..." Einstein replied: "Yes." He calmly took it from under the desk. He took out two small benches, raised the small bench in his left hand and said: "This is the first time I made it." He also raised the small bench in his right hand and said: "This is the second time I made it... The one I just handed over was mine." Although it is not satisfactory, it is better than these two. "Einstein's confidence was established through vertical comparison.

4． Pu Songling wrote a book after failing in the imperial examination - Confidence makes people rise up from disappointment

After failing in the imperial examination, Pu Songling, a famous Chinese writer, wrote a self-encouragement couplet: "Those who have a will, things can be done. If you break the cauldron and sink the boat, a hundred and two Qin Guan belongs to Chu in the end; if you work hard and live up to the odds, if you work hard and endure hardships, three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu." He did not lose his ambition, but he was full of confidence in his career, and he continued to engage in literary creation, and finally wrote. He wrote the immortal masterpiece "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".

Eternal Regret, Immortal Promise

The bleak autumn wind blows gently across the Wuzhang Plain. You look at the extinguished seven-star lantern and can only look up to the sky and sigh. The Northern Expedition to the Central Plains has become your eternal regret.

You must still remember how melancholy and comfortable the song "Liang Father's Song" was on Wolong Gang; you must also remember the kindness of Uncle Liu who visited the thatched cottage three times. You said: "If General Meng does not give up, I am willing to do my best." So you bid farewell to the place where you have lived for many years, for the promise you made.

So you used fire at Bowangpochu, which made Cao Jun frightened by the news; you sent an envoy to Soochow, and you talked with the Confucian scholars, and planned to provoke Zhou Yu, so that Liu Bei and Sun Quan became friends; you borrowed arrows from the straw boat to frighten Zhou Yu. I feel sorry for myself. You are in a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, but you are as safe as Mount Tai. Who can be as intelligent and intelligent as you? When the army was defeated and ordered to be in danger, you only kept the promise you made without leaving any regrets.

So you borrowed the east wind from the Seven Star Altar to help Zhou Yu burn Red Cliff, block Cao Cao from Huarong, and scare Cao Cao from going south. The plan to capture Jingzhou gave Liu Bei and his son a place to live; the plan to capture his wife made Soochow lose his wife and lose his troops; the three attacks on Zhou Yu made him vomit blood and die. You mediate the heaven and the earth, mend the universe, and make the unpredictable ghosts and gods use strategies to fulfill the promises you made without leaving any regrets.

So you take Sichuan and Shu to the west and Hanzhong to the north, support Liu Bei as the king of Hanzhong, and win three points of the world for him. However, things are unpredictable. Liu Bei was left alone in Baidi City, and your promise turned into a regret. However, you made a promise again: "I will do my best to support my lord, and I will do my best until I die."

So you conquered Soochow in the east and rejected Cao Cao in the north. In the southern expedition to the southern barbarians, Meng Huo was defeated and defeated seven times, and Meng Huo was heartily convinced; in the northern expedition to the Central Plains, Cao's army was retreated with a single string, and Sima's army was defeated and fell to the ground.

You have been out of Qishan for six years, and you can see that great things can come true, and your promise is right. But God's will is hard to do. You know that Yang's life is over and the Han Dynasty is dead. You want to kill the thief, but you are unable to save it.

"Died before leaving the army, it makes the hero burst into tears." Your promise turns into regret.

Eternal regret is only because of the immortal promise; the immortal promise has left us an immortal history without regrets.

In the early 20th century, when Xu Beihong was studying in Europe, he encountered provocation from a foreigner. The foreigner said: "Chinese people are ignorant and are born to be slaves. Even if they are sent to heaven for further study, they will not become talented!" Xu Beihong replied angrily: "Well, I represent my motherland and you represent yours. When you graduate, you will see who is the talent and who is the idiot!" A year later, Xu Beihong's oil paintings were well received by French artists. After that, he won the first place in several competitions. His personal exhibition caused a sensation in Paris. Art world. Such an amazing achievement is far beyond the reach of that foreigner.

Newton, praised as the "Father of Mechanics", founded calculus, discovered the spectrum, and proposed the law of universal gravitation in his twenties. But he did not attribute the credit to himself, but said modestly: "If what I have seen is further than Descartes, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." Darwin, the founder of the "theory of evolution", had a conversation in an interview with the British writer Halton: "Your special achievements?" "No." "Your main shortcomings?" "Do not understand mathematics and new languages, lack of Observation, not good at logical thinking. "What is your academic attitude?" "Very diligent, but not master of learning methods." Where is the self-esteem and confidence of these two scientists who have made great achievements? "Mobility makes people progress, and pride makes people fall behind." Humility is a manifestation of self-esteem and self-confidence.

Seiji Ozawa is a world-famous symphony conductor. In a final competition of a world outstanding conductor competition, he conducted the performance according to the score given by the jury, and keenly discovered the discordant sounds. At first, he thought there was something wrong with the band's performance, so he stopped and played again, but it still wasn't right. He thought there was something wrong with the music score. At this time, the composer and the authorities present on the jury insisted that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the score and that he was wrong. Facing a large number of music masters and authorities, he thought again and again, and finally said loudly and resolutely: "No! The score must be wrong!" As soon as he finished speaking, the judges on the judges' bench immediately stood up and applauded warmly. Congratulations to him for winning the competition.

It turns out that this is a "trap" carefully designed by the judges to test whether the conductor can stick to his correct opinions when he discovers errors in the music score and is "denied" by authorities. Although the first two conductors who participated in the final also discovered their mistakes, they were eventually eliminated because they echoed the opinions of the authorities. Seiji Ozawa won the World Conductor Competition because of his confidence.

A large company is recruiting new people and has eliminated several batches of candidates for interviews. At this time, both the interviewer and the interviewee felt a little nervous: If qualified candidates cannot be selected today, many jobs in the company will be affected; for the interviewee, if they can enter this national company, If you work for a well-known company, your future career development will be immeasurable.

At this time a young man walked into the interview office. He saw a small piece of paper at the door. Out of habit, the young man bent down to pick up the paper and threw it into the trash can. After the interview, the president of the company who presided over the interview asked the young man to stay. He told the young man that he could go to the company immediately for training and that he could officially start work after passing the training. The young man himself couldn't believe it, because he knew that the people who entered the interview stage in this recruitment process were all elites, and according to his observation, many of them had abilities above him. When the president heard the doubts raised by the young man, he smiled and replied: "This is exactly why I talked to you. Your ability level is indeed not the best among all the applicants, but you are the only one who passed one item during the interview. The most critical test - the small piece of paper at the door was deliberately placed there."

It is not that the talents who went to apply for the job with the young people did not see the piece of paper at the door. A small but noticeable piece of paper. For them, picking up a small piece of paper on the ground is just as simple as bending down, but they think such a trivial thing is not worth doing, so they miss the opportunity to enter that big company. In fact, they lose because of this. This was not the only important opportunity that was missed.

And that young man was Henry Ford, the father of the American automobile industry. He used his actual actions to prove the unique vision of the original president.

Henry Ford was lucky. His luck lay not only in meeting a CEO with a keen eye for talents, but also in his seriousness in not neglecting every little thing.

David Packard said: "Little things make big things happen, details make perfect." Success is accumulated from one small thing after another, one detail after another. If people can grasp these details, they can achieve success; if they do not pay attention to the accumulation of details and just want to succeed in one fell swoop, it is really a daydream.

Shanghai Metro Line 1 was designed by the Germans. It didn’t look like there was anything special about it. It wasn’t until Line 2 designed by Chinese designers was put into operation that we discovered that so many details had been changed. Line number ignored. As a result, the operating cost of Line 2 is much higher than that of Line 1, and it has not yet achieved break-even.

There is such a story in ancient China:

There is a village near the bank of the Yellow River. In order to prevent flooding, the farmers built a towering embankment. One day, an old farmer accidentally discovered that the ant nest suddenly increased in size. The old farmer thought to himself: Will these ant nests affect the safety of the long embankment? He was going back to the village to report, and met his son on the way. After hearing this, the old farmer's son said disapprovingly: With such a strong long embankment, are you still afraid of a few small ants? Then he took the old farmer and went to the fields together. That night it was windy and rainy, and the water in the Yellow River surged. The roaring river seeped from the ant nest, then sprayed, and finally broke through the long embankment, flooding large villages and fields along the coast.

This is the origin of the idiom "A dike of a thousand miles collapses in an ant nest".

In the summer of 2003, the Yangtze River suffered a severe flood. A piping surge occurred in the Jingjiang levee section of Nanping Town, Gongan County, and the levee was in danger. Several veteran water conservancy experts saw clearly and promptly determined that the piping surge was caused by termites, and led the masses to take effective measures. After five hours of hard work, the danger was finally eliminated.

Since the 1970s, 13 embankments and 9 dams have collapsed in Qingyuan, Guangdong. Among them, it has been verified

1. Joule seeks knowledge

The famous British scientist Joule grew up He loves physics very much, and he often does experiments on electricity and heat by himself.

One year during the holidays, Joule and his brother traveled to the countryside together. The smart and studious Joule did not forget to do his physics experiments even when he was playing.

He found a lame horse, held by his brother, and quietly hid behind it. He used a Voda battery to pass current to the horse, hoping to test the animal's reaction after being stimulated by the current. reaction. As a result, the reaction he wanted to see occurred. The horse jumped wildly after receiving the electric shock, and almost kicked his brother.

Although danger has appeared, this has not affected the mood of Xiao Joule, who loves to experiment, at all. He and Giulia rowed a boat to a lake surrounded by mountains, where Joule wanted to test how big the echo was. They filled their muskets with gunpowder and pulled the triggers. Unexpectedly, with a "bang", a long flame spurted out from the muzzle of the gun, burning Joule's eyebrows, and almost scared his brother into falling into the lake.

At this time, the sky was covered with thick clouds and there was lightning and thunder. Joule, who was just about to go ashore to hide from the rain, found that it took a long time after the lightning to hear the rumble of thunder. What was going on?

Joule didn’t care about hiding from the rain, so he dragged his brother up a hill and carefully recorded the time between lightning and thunder with his pocket watch.

After school started, Joule couldn’t wait to tell the teacher all the experiments he had done and asked the teacher for advice.

The teacher looked at the studious and inquisitive Joule and smiled, and patiently explained to him: "The propagation speeds of light and sound are different. The speed of light is fast and the speed of sound is slow, so people always want to see lightning before hearing it. The thunder and lightning actually happened at the same time.” Joule suddenly understood. From then on, he became more obsessed with learning scientific knowledge. Through continuous learning and careful observation and calculation, he finally discovered the thermal work equivalent and the law of conservation of energy, and became an outstanding scientist.

2. Seeking knowledge-continuous self-improvement

The British physicist Bragg, whose family was very poor when he was a child, relied on his unremitting pursuit of dreams and tenacious efforts to finally achieve a lot. Big achievement. The poor years he experienced became the driving force that inspired him to move forward in the future.

When he was in school, because his family’s financial situation was so poor, his parents could not buy him good-looking clothes or comfortable shoes. He was often dressed in ragged clothes and dragged a pair of shoes that did not match his feet. Worn leather shoes.

But the young Prague never felt inferior because of poverty, and he never complained that his family could not provide him with superior living conditions. The pair of oversized leather shoes looked ridiculous on his feet, but he did not feel inferior because of it. On the contrary, he cherishes this pair of shoes because it gives him unlimited motivation.

It turns out that this pair of shoes was sent to him by his father. The family was poor and could not buy him a pair of comfortable and sturdy shoes. Even though this pair of old leather shoes belonged to his father. Although his father was also full of guilt about this, he still gave his son ardent hope, unparalleled encouragement and strong emotional support. His father wrote this in a letter to him: "...Son, I'm so sorry. I hope that in a year or two, my pair of leather shoes will no longer be too big for your feet. ...I hold this I hope that once you achieve something, I will be proud of it, because my son worked hard and succeeded in my worn-out shoes..." This letter, which is profound and full of expectations, has always been like an invisible force. , pushing Prague on the rugged mountain road of science, marching forward through thorns.

3. Honesty is more valuable than a thousand cherry trees - Honesty

George Washington has admired heroes since he was sensible. When he saw his brother wearing military uniform and fighting on the front line, he was extremely envious. One day after dinner, he suddenly thought of a question and hurriedly ran to ask his father: "Dad, when I grow up, I want to be a brave soldier like my brother, okay?" "Excellent, my dear child. !” the father replied happily, “but do you know what kind of child can become a brave soldier?” the father asked. "Well -" Washington thought for a while and replied: "Only an honest child can become a brave soldier, is that true?" "Yes. Only by being honest can everyone be united, and only by unity can we defeat the enemy and become a brave soldier. . ”

My father not only preaches, but also pays attention to teaching by example. On his father's farm, there was a small cherry tree, which his father planted in commemoration of Washington's birth. Little George is growing up day by day, and the little cherry tree is getting taller and taller every year. Washington wanted to grow up to be a mighty soldier. Once, he planned to make a small wooden gun to arm himself. He originally wanted his father to help, but seeing that his father was busy with his work all day long and had no time, he decided to do it himself. Little Washington picked up the saw and axe, found a small tree that was easy to cut down, and sawed it down. Little did he know that this tree was my father's favorite cherry tree. This was a big disaster.

When my father came back and found out about it, he lost his temper and asked who did it. Washington hid in the house, terrified. He thought for a while, but bravely came out, walked up to him, and said with a guilty look: "Dad, I did it." "Little guy, you cut down my favorite cherry tree. You didn't know I would do it." Want to beat you?" Seeing that his father was still angry, Washington replied: "Dad, didn't you say that if you want to be a soldier, you must first have the character of honesty? It’s a fact. I didn’t lie.”

The father was very touched when his son said this. He realized that the good qualities of his children were more precious than his beloved cherry tree. He hugged Washington and said: "Daddy forgives you, son. Admitting a mistake is a heroic act and is worth more than a thousand cherry trees."

4. Honesty

When Zihuayun was in primary school, she didn’t study very hard. Many things seemed to distract her. For example, every time she came home from school, she would see the shadows of her friends shaking outside the window and she would want to run away and talk to the children. Let's have fun together. At this time, my mother put her fist on the table and put forward various requirements for homework, plus her oral examination on the day's homework. Only after passing the test can she go to play. Her mother has always been strict with Hua Yun, and she has always been consistent. For children with poor self-consciousness, they can only devote themselves to learning obediently under their mother's supervision.

Probably this method can highly arouse the excitement of human nerve cells. Under the supervision of her mother, Zi Huajun is very efficient in doing homework. She often meets her mother's requirements effortlessly and with high accuracy. Very high. Gradually, she also developed a good habit of completing her homework on time. If she was asked to play before she finished her homework, she would feel really awkward!

During the winter and summer vacations, her mother did not relax her requirements at all. In addition to the homework assigned by the school, Zihuayun also has to complete the homework assigned by her mother. In addition, according to mother's instructions, she and her sister recited Han Yu's "The Master" and other ancient texts together.

Facing such a strict and merciless mother, Zihuayun was a little afraid of her. Once, Zihuayun did a math question wrong, and the teacher made a cross with a red pen. In fact, it was not a big deal, but when she thought of her mother who was so strict with her, she hesitated because she was afraid of her mother's criticism. After much deliberation, I secretly changed the fork myself. But afterwards she felt very uneasy and felt that doing so was contrary to her mother's daily teachings. After some ideological struggle, I finally told my mother about this and obediently waited for my mother's more severe criticism. But to Zi Huajun's surprise, her mother did not get angry after hearing her words. Instead, she first smiled and praised her for taking the initiative to admit her mistakes, and then pointed out: "Lying is the most shameful. All bad things are caused by dishonesty." Finally, her mother took her to analyze the reasons for the wrong questions.

By doing this, mother can not only educate her children well, but also take care of Zihuayun's self-esteem.

5. Humility

On the day of Adolf Beyeer’s 10th birthday. He originally thought that his parents would give him a lively celebration like the parents of other children. But this day: his mother took him to his grandmother's house early in the morning and spent the whole day there without mentioning his birthday at all. Bayer was very unhappy. On the way home, he kept pouting and said nothing. When his mother saw her, she said earnestly: "When I gave birth to you, your father was 41 years old and was still a rough man. Now he is 51 years old. But just like you, he is studying hard and has to take the exam tomorrow. I don't want to delay his study because of your birthday. Time is too precious for him. You are still young, so you must learn to cherish time. ”

Mother’s words are like rain and dew, nourishing Beyer’s young heart bit by bit. He later recalled: "This was the most generous gift my mother gave me for my 10th birthday."

When Beyer was studying at university, the name of organic chemist Professor Jaraku spread throughout Germany. . However, the professor was still very young at that time. Some elders in the scientific community always raised questions of one kind or another to find fault with him. One day, Beyer and his father were chatting together and mentioned Professor Jaraku. Bayer said: "Jiaragu is only 6 years older than me..." The implication is that this person is nothing special.

My father was very dissatisfied after hearing this. He said to Beyer: "What about being six years older? Isn't it worth learning from? When I was studying geology, the teacher was 30 years younger than me. All of them, I still call them teachers respectfully and listen to their lectures attentively. You have to remember that age and knowledge are not necessarily proportional. No matter who you are, as long as you have knowledge, you should learn from him humbly. ”