Interesting China story suitable for junior middle school students.

An old carpenter told his boss that he would leave the construction industry and go home to enjoy his family. The boss asked him if he could help build another house, and the old carpenter said yes. But as you can see, he has been absent-minded, careless about materials and not serious about his work. After the house was built, the boss gave him the key to the gate. "This is your house," said the boss. "This is a gift for you." He was dumbfounded and ashamed. He will have to live in a poor house in the future!

So do we. We often casually "build" our own life, not actively, but passively, refusing to strive for perfection in everything and failing to do our best at critical moments. By the time we were shocked, we were already trapped in the "house" we built. Think of you as the carpenter, think about your house, knock every nail carefully every day, add every board carefully, erect every wall carefully, and build it with your wisdom! Your life is the only creation in your life, which cannot be erased and rebuilt. Even if there is only one day to live, that day should be beautiful and noble. The chrome sign on the wall reads: "Life is your own creation."

Now, we are building a house for our future!

2. Express and local trains

The speed of express train and local train is actually the same, but the number and length of stopovers are different. Learning is not like this. Some students stop to "relax" every Monday; One big stop every semester, "have fun"; Junior high school to high school, high school to college, is the "big stop" of life, don't play with him. The result is a "slow train". You are who you are now, not because your car runs faster than others, but because you are an "express train", running straight ahead without stopping. In the future life, should we continue to take the express train or take the local train instead? It's up to you Although the express train has abandoned some landscapes, it can also reach the finish line quickly. If you want to visit everywhere carefully, you will definitely become a local train.

3. Rules

An overseas student from China went to Japan to study, while studying, he worked and washed dishes for his boss. Japanese restaurants stipulate that dishes and bowls must be washed seven times. As time goes by, the migrant worker plans to reduce the number of working procedures from seven to six, and then to five. Later, it was discovered and naturally fired. He went to other restaurants to apply for a job, and when people checked his information, they all flatly refused. He can't survive in this country, so he has to go back to China in despair.

Any game has certain rules. If you break the rules, you may take advantage in the short term, but in the long run, you will hit a wall.

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Two Europeans went to Africa to sell leather shoes. Africans always go barefoot because of the hot weather. The first salesman was disappointed when he saw that all Africans were barefoot. "These people are barefoot. Why do they want my shoes? " So I gave up my efforts and came back depressed.

Another salesman was surprised to see that all Africans were barefoot: "These people have no shoes to wear. The leather shoes market is very big. " So, I tried my best to guide Africans to buy leather shoes, and finally I became rich.

5. Astronaut Komarov died.

1 On August 23, 967, the former Soviet Union1spacecraft suddenly had a vicious accident when it returned to the atmosphere-the deceleration parachute could not be opened. After studying it, the leaders of the former Soviet Union decided to broadcast the accident live to the whole country. When the announcer of the TV station announced in a sad tone that the spaceship would crash in two hours and the audience would witness the news of the martyrdom of astronaut komarov, the whole country was immediately shocked and people were immersed in great grief. On TV, the audience saw the calm image of astronaut komarov. He smiled and said to his mother, "Mom, I can clearly see your image here, including every gray hair on your head. Can you see me clearly? " "Yes, you see very clearly. Son, everything is fine, don't worry! " At this time, komarov's daughter also appeared on the TV screen. She is only 12 years old. Komarov said, "Daughter, don't cry!" "I don't ..." My daughter was sobbing, but she fought back her grief and said, "Dad, you are a Soviet hero. I want to tell you that the hero's daughter will live like a hero! " Komarov told her daughter, "When you study, you should take every decimal point seriously. What happened to Soyuz-1 today was because a decimal point was ignored during the ground inspection ... "One minute passed, and there were only seven minutes before the spaceship crashed. Komalov waved to the national television audience and said, "Fellow citizens, please allow me to say goodbye to you in this vast space."

This story tells us a truth: you can't be careless about life, otherwise, even a small matter will cost you a heavy or even irreparable price. We should start a new journey from now on, starting from the first year, the first semester, the first week, the first day and the first class of these three years.

6.a box of biscuits

One night, she was waiting at the airport. She bought a box of biscuits and a book to kill several hours of waiting time. She found a seat and sat down to concentrate on reading. Suddenly, she found that a young man sitting next to her reached out and unscrupulously grabbed the biscuits in the box between them and ate them. She didn't want to cause trouble, so she turned a blind eye. A disgruntled lady also began to take cookies from the box. She looked at her watch and saw out of the corner of her eye that the cookie thief was actually doing the same thing. She was even more angry and thought, "If I hadn't been so kind and educated, I would have swollen this rude guy's eyes."

Every time she eats cookies, he eats a piece with her. When the last biscuit was left, he smiled unnaturally, reached for the biscuit, broke it in half, gave her half and ate the other half himself. She took the half biscuit and thought, "What a rude man! Don't even say thank you! I have never seen such a brazen person. " She breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the registration notice. She hurriedly stuffed the book into her bag, picked up her luggage and went straight to the boarding gate without looking at the thief. After boarding the plane, she began to look for the unfinished book. Suddenly she stood there, and she saw that her box of biscuits was still intact in the bag! It's too late to ask that man's forgiveness. She is very sad because she is the arrogant and ill-bred "thief".

7. Stiffness and flexibility

The donkey crossed the river with salt on his back, fell by the river and fell into the water. The salt melted and the donkey suddenly felt much more relaxed. A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. The donkey gained experience and was very happy. Later, the donkey crossed the river with cotton on his back, thinking that if he fell again, he could reduce the burden as he did last time. So, when I walked to the river, I fell into the water on purpose. Who knows that cotton absorbs water, and the donkey can no longer stand up, and keeps sinking until it is drowned by some water.

8. The secret of success

If the little-known Yamada won the world championship in 1984 Tokyo International Marathon Invitational Tournament by accident, it is an indisputable fact that he won the championship again in Italy International Marathon Invitational Tournament two years later.

Marathon is a sport that requires physical strength and endurance. Only those with good physical fitness and endurance are expected to win the championship, and explosive power and speed are secondary factors. How did Yamada Ichi succeed?

In his autobiography, he wrote: Before every competition, I have to take a bus to carefully watch the route of the competition, and draw more eye-catching signs along the way, such as the first sign is a big tree, the second sign is a bank, and the third sign is a red house ... so I have been painting until the end of the competition. After the race started, I rushed to the first goal at a speed of 100 meters. After reaching the first goal, I rushed to the second goal at the same speed. I broke down the 40-kilometer race into several small goals and ran it easily. ...

9. Leave the dry well

A donkey accidentally fell into a dry well. It cried piteously for help, expecting its master to save it. The owner of the donkey called many neighbors to give advice, but in the end he didn't come up with a good idea. Everyone thinks that the donkey is old, and this dry well is about to be filled up. "Humanitarian destruction" is not excessive. So people picked up shovels and began to fill wells. When the first shovel fell into the dry well, the donkey barked even more fiercely-it obviously understood its master's intention. When another shovel of dirt hit the donkey's back, the donkey was unexpectedly calm. After shoveling a shovel of soil, the donkey wants to shake it off, step on it and fill himself up a little higher. People kept shoveling dirt into the dry well, and the donkey kept shaking off the dirt on his back and stepping on it to make himself taller. In this way, the donkey slowly rose to the mouth of the dry well and walked out of the dry well in people's surprised eyes.

10. Success means doing simple things repeatedly.

The famous national marketing guru is about to bid farewell to its marketing career. At the invitation of trade associations and all walks of life, he will deliver a farewell speech at the largest gymnasium in the city. On that day, the venue was packed, and people were anxiously waiting for the greatest salesman of our time to give a wonderful speech. When the curtain slowly opened, a huge iron ball hung in the center of the stage. For this iron ball, a high iron frame was set up on the stage. An old man came out and stood on the side of the iron shelf in the warm applause of people. He is wearing a red tracksuit and white rubber shoes under his feet. People looked at him in surprise, wondering what he was going to do. At this time, two workers, carrying a big hammer, put it in front of the old man. The host then said to the audience: Please invite two strongmen to take the stage. Many young people stood up, and in a blink of an eye, two of them quickly ran to the stage. The old man then told them the rules and asked them to beat the hanging iron ball with this big hammer until it swung. A young man grabbed the hammer, tore himself apart, swung the sledgehammer and threw it at the hanging iron ball with all his strength. There was a deafening noise and the ball hung still. He hit the ball with a sledgehammer one after another, and soon he was out of breath. The other man, not showing weakness, picked up a sledgehammer and jingled the hanging iron ball, but the iron ball remained motionless. The shouting gradually disappeared from the audience, and the audience seemed to feel useless, just waiting for the old man to explain. Quietly returned to the venue, the old man took out a small hammer from his coat pocket, and then seriously faced the huge iron ball. He struck the iron ball with a small hammer, then paused and struck it again with a small hammer. People looked at it strangely, and the old man just "knocked", then paused, and so on.

Go ahead.

Ten minutes have passed, and twenty minutes have passed, and the venue has already begun to stir. Some people simply shout and curse, and people vent their dissatisfaction with various voices and actions. The old man is still working with a hammer. He doesn't seem to hear what people are shouting at all. People began to leave angrily, and there were a lot of vacancies at the meeting. The people who stayed seemed tired of shouting, and the meeting gradually quieted down. After the old man continued talking for about forty minutes, a lady sitting in front suddenly screamed, "The ball has moved!" " "When it was time to brake, the venue was immediately silent, and people looked at the iron ball with rapt attention. The ball swings slightly, so it's hard to detect it without looking carefully. The old man is still hammering, and people seem to hear the sound of a hammer hitting the ball. Hanging the ball in the old man's hammering, swinging higher and higher. It pulls the iron shelf "moo, moo", and its great power strongly shocks everyone present. Finally, a burst of warm applause broke out on the field. With applause, the old man turned around and slowly put the small hammer into his pocket. The old man spoke. He only said one sentence: on the way to success, you have no patience to wait for success, so you should spend your whole life patiently facing failure.

1 1. Cross your psychological height.

There was an experiment: put a flea in a cup and it jumped out easily. Cover the cup with a piece of glass, and again and again, fleas hit it hard. Fleas began to get smarter and adjust the jumping height. A day later, the glass cover was removed and the fleas continued to jump at the original height. A week passed and it still didn't jump out.

In real life, people are not like this. After several failures, I doubted my ability and lowered the standard of success again and again. They are not incapable of success, but artificially set a height in their minds, a height they think they can't cross, thus limiting their potential.

If you want the flea to jump out easily, knock on the cup or heat the bottom of the cup, it will jump out quickly. So do people. As long as you firmly believe in your ability and look for the motivation or pressure for success, you can surpass your "psychological height".

Therefore, the first step to success: don't set limits for yourself. Say to yourself loudly every day: I am the best and I will succeed!

12. Take the exam

After being laid off, a young man wanted to find a new job, but he was not hired several times. The reason is either the wrong type of work or the lack of competitiveness. He felt very depressed, and his father always advised him not to lose heart. Finally, he was hired by a company. It is not that his intelligence is higher than other candidates, but that he found an unused small screw under the office building before the exam. Picking up screws happened to be seen by the factory director, who hired him. In fact, he picked up the screws out of a long-term habit. In the past, whether at home or in the factory, he cherished his property very much. Because his father was a thrifty model in the 1960s, he learned the spirit of thrift from his father at an early age. This spirit enabled him to find a job again. Of course, more importantly, he met a factory director who knew little about it. Once, a paper factory in Shenzhen recruited people, and the examination room was located in front of the office building. Many candidates only care about the exam and turn a blind eye to the blank paper on the ground. Only one young man picked up the blank sheets on the ground. After picking up the blank paper, the exam is coming to an end. When he handed thousands of blank sheets of paper to the examiner, the examiner said, "Young man, you are hired." The young man said, "I haven't taken the exam yet!" " "The examiner said," Do you still need to take the exam? You should be employed because of your thrift. " The young man was extremely surprised. At first, he just thought that white paper should not be wasted. He didn't expect the blank paper on the ground to be the examination questions given by the examiner.

13. Gift

A Buddha met a person who didn't like him during his journey. For several days, the man tried every means to slander him. Finally, the Buddha turned to the man and asked, "If someone gives you a gift and you refuse to accept it, who does it belong to?"

The man replied, "It belongs to the original gift giver." The Buddha smiled and said, "That's right. If I don't accept your insults, then you are cursing yourself? " The man touched his nose and left. As long as the mind is healthy, what others think can't affect us. If we blindly care about other people's ideas or statements, we will lose our autonomy.

14. The professor bowed to the classmate sitting in the worst position.

This is a lecture given by one of the most famous professors in this school. By the time I got to the lecture hall, the seats on both sides of the podium and aisle in the lecture hall had been occupied by others. The middle and rear seats that are inconvenient to get in and out are still available. I chose a place to sit down, and then looked at the podium. I saw the professor already sitting there.

At this time, the students who listened to the lecture came one after another, and every seat in the lecture hall was full of people. The lecture started on time and the professor stood up from his chair. He walked straight down from the podium and came to the seat in the last row of the lecture hall. He pointed to a classmate in the middle of the seat and said, "Students, before starting today's lecture, please allow me to pay tribute to this classmate." After that, the professor bowed deeply to the classmate.

The lecture hall suddenly became silent, and everyone didn't know what happened.

After bowing, the professor stood up and said slowly, "I bowed to this classmate because he chose to sit in it, which made me full of respect."

After listening to the professor's words, the lecture hall became a little agitated. Everyone whispered. The professor did not refute the students' words, but still said in a low voice, "I was the first to come to the lecture hall today." When you enter the hall, I pay special attention to observation. I found that many students who came first grabbed seats near the podium and on both sides of the aisle as soon as they came in. In their view, this must be the best position, easy to get in and out, and close to the podium, so they can hear clearly. Only when this classmate came, I noticed that there were many seats in front and on both sides, but he went straight to the back of the lecture hall and sat in the middle, which was inconvenient to get in and out. This classmate left the good position to others, but he would rather sit in the worst position. Doesn't his thought deserve our full respect? "

The professor went on to say: "I continued to observe and found that those students who had seized the good seats they thought before actually suffered a lot, because the distance between the front row and the back row of the seats was small, and every latecomer had to stand up once to let the latecomers in." I counted, within half an hour, those students who seized the' good position' actually paid the price of standing up more than ten times for their own behavior. The classmate sitting in the middle of the back row has been reading his book calmly, and no one has disturbed him. "

At this point, the professor paused, looked around the lecture hall from front to back, and then looked at everyone. Slowly but forcefully, he said, "Students, please remember: when you only have yourself in your heart, you actually leave the trouble to yourself; When you are thinking about others, in fact, others have helped you unconsciously ... "

15. Constantly embarrass yourself

Carl from the music department walked into the practice room. On the piano, there is a brand-new music score.

"Super difficult ..." Carl looked through the music and muttered, feeling that his confidence in playing the piano seemed to have fallen to the bottom and disappeared.

It's been three months! Since following the new guidance professor, he doesn't know why the professor is fooling people like this.

Carl barely pulled himself together and began to hit, hit, hit with his fingers ... The sound of the piano drowned out the professor's footsteps coming from outside the practice room.

The instructor is a famous piano master. On the first day of teaching, he gave his new students a tune. "Give it a try!" "He said. The music score is quite difficult, and Carl plays it with many mistakes. "Not yet, go back to practice! The professor told the students in the next class.

Carl has been practicing for a week and will be accepted by the professor in class next week. Unexpectedly, the professor gave him a more difficult score. "Give it a try!" The professor didn't mention it in class last week. Carl struggled again, challenging more difficult skills.

In the third week, more difficult music scores appeared again. This situation continues. Carl was troubled by a new grade in every class, then took it back to practice, and then went back to class to face a grade that doubled the difficulty, but he couldn't keep up with the progress anyway, and because of last week's practice, he didn't feel at home at all. As a result, he became more and more uneasy, depressed and discouraged.

The professor walked into the practice room. Carl can't stand it any longer. He must ask piano master why he has been torturing himself for three months.

The professor didn't speak. He took out the earliest music score and gave it to Carl. "Play it." He looked at Carl firmly.

The incredible result appeared, and even Carl himself was very surprised. He can play this song so beautifully and skillfully! The professor asked him to try to play the music score of the second class, but he still showed a super high level ... After the performance, Carl looked at the teacher stupefied and couldn't speak.

"If I let you show what you are best at, maybe you are still practicing the earliest music score, you won't reach this level ..." piano master said slowly.

In fact, everyone's potential is infinite, even he can't perceive it. It is like a gold mine buried in our ordinary life. Whether a person can dig this gold mine to the maximum extent depends on whether he is good at forcing himself and managing himself. People are often used to showing what they are familiar with and good at. However, if we are willing to look back carefully, we will suddenly realize that seemingly intensive work challenges and increasingly difficult environmental pressures have unconsciously developed today's ability.

16. One line is 10,000 yuan.

At the beginning of the 20th century, one of the motors of Ford, the largest company in America, broke down, and many people couldn't repair it for two or three months. In desperation, Steinmenz, a German science and technology enterprise management expert who had moved to the United States at that time, was recommended. After two days of careful observation and calculation of the motor, Steinmenz drew a line on the motor shell with chalk and said, "Turn on the motor and reduce the number of coils inside by 16 turns at the mark." People take what he said with a grain of salt. As a result, the problem really lies here. After the motor was repaired, the relevant personnel asked him how much he wanted, and he said, "Ten thousand dollars!" Huh? Ten thousand dollars! That man thought he heard wrong! Therefore, Steinmenz was asked to make out a bill explaining the cost. Steinmenz wrote: "Draw a line of 1 USD with chalk, and know where this line is drawn. It is nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine Dollar." The bill was sent to the boss of the company. The boss nodded repeatedly after reading it. He quickly paid 1 ten thousand dollars and hired him heavily.

17. Ignorance is fearless

1796 One day, at the University of G? ttingen in Germany, a 19-year-old young man finished his dinner and began to do three routine math problems assigned to him by his tutor. He is very talented in mathematics, so his tutor has high hopes for him and gives him difficult math problems as training every day. Under normal circumstances, he always finishes this special homework in two hours. As usual, the first two topics were finished in two hours. The third question, written on a small piece of paper, is to make a positive 17 polygon with only compasses and an uncalibrated ruler. The youth didn't care and began to do it like the first two questions. However, doing and doing, young people find it more and more difficult. At first, he thought, maybe my tutor saw that my daily problems were going well, and this time it added to my troubles. However, with the passage of time, no progress has been made on the third question. Young people have racked their brains, but they can't think of any help to solve this problem.

Difficulties inspired the young man's fighting spirit. He said to himself, I must do it! He picked up the compass and ruler and scratched on the paper, trying to solve the problem with unconventional ideas. When the window showed a glimmer of light, the young man breathed a sigh of relief, and he finally worked out the difficult problem.

He felt a little guilty and blamed himself when he met his mentor. He said to his tutor, "I spent the whole night on the third question you assigned me, and failed to live up to your cultivation ..."

The young man was immediately shocked when his tutor looked at his homework. He said to the young man in a trembling voice, "Did you really do this yourself?" The young man looked at the excited tutor with some doubts and replied, "Of course. However, I was so stupid that it took me a whole night to make it. " The tutor asked the young man to sit down, took out the compass and ruler, spread the paper on the desk, and asked the young man to make a positive 17 polygon in front of him. The young man soon succeeded. The tutor said excitedly to the young man, "Do you know that you have solved a math unsolved case with a history of more than 2,000 years? Archimedes didn't solve it, Newton didn't solve it, and you solved it overnight! You are a genius! I have been studying this difficult problem recently. When I assigned you a topic yesterday, I accidentally put a small note of this difficult problem in the topic and gave it to you. "

Many years later, when the young man recalled this scene, he always said, "If someone told me that this is a math problem with a history of more than 2,000 years, I could not solve it for one night."

This young man is Gauss, the prince of mathematics.

Politeness is a kind of cultivation.

A group of fresh graduates went to a Ministry for internship and inspection, and the secretary of the Ministry poured them water. Among the 22 students, 2 1 was expressionless, and some even asked, "Do you have any green tea? It's too hot. " 2 1 When the minister came to visit and personally presented the album printed by the Ministry, the students sat there motionless, holding the album handed over by the minister in one hand, which embarrassed the minister and made his face more and more ugly.

Only one person named Lin Hui is in sharp contrast with them. When it was his turn, he said softly, "Thank you! The heat is innocent and uncomfortable. "

When the minister was about to lose patience, it was Lin Hui who stood up politely, leaned forward slightly, took the commemorative album with both hands and said respectfully, "Thank you!"

Later, this department was named Lin Hui, which surprised even Lin Hui. However, there is inevitability behind the accident. This is precisely the courtesy he inadvertently showed.

19. Learn to applaud others

There is a girl in the class named Eiko, who is quiet and beautiful, but always curled up in the corner of the classroom. Arrive early before class and be the last to leave after school. Later, I learned that her leg was crippled by polio and she didn't want to be seen walking.

One day in a lecture, the teacher asked the students to tell a short story on the platform. When it was Eiko's turn, more than forty pairs of eyes of the whole class rushed to that corner. Eiko immediately bowed his head. The teacher kept calling eiko's name as soon as she turned in. Eiko hesitated for a while and finally stood up slowly. Everyone noticed that Eiko's eyes were red. Under the gaze of the whole class, Eiko finally waddled onto the podium. At the moment when she just stood, I don't know who led her, but suddenly there was a burst of applause. The applause was warm and lasting. In the applause, we saw Eiko's tears flow down.

She spoke very successfully, and finally, there was warm applause in the class. She bowed politely to her teacher and classmates. Then, amid applause, he waddled off the platform.

Strangely, since then, Eiko seems to be a different person. She is no longer so melancholy. She played games and joked with her classmates, and even once went into a small ballroom for her classmates to teach her to dance. Later, Eiko's academic performance has been very good, especially in physics and mathematics. When she was a sophomore, she also participated in the national Olympic physics prize competition on behalf of the school. Later, she was admitted to a university in Beijing. She wrote to the teacher of her alma mater and said, "I will never forget that applause, because it made me understand that my classmates did not discriminate against me. I should summon up courage and face life with a smile." Applause gave me a second life ... "

Since then, the students in this class have learned to applaud others, especially when others are in trouble.

20. The last lesson

A philosopher took a group of his students around the world. They traveled all over the country and visited all the learned people. Later, they came back full of knowledge. Before entering the city, the philosopher sat down on a meadow in the suburbs and said to his students, "After several years of travel, everyone here has read a lot. School is almost over now, let's have the last lesson. "

The disciples sat around the philosopher. The philosopher asked, "Where are we sitting now?" The disciples answered, Now we are sitting in the wilderness. The philosopher asked again, "What grows in the wilderness?" Disciple said: The wilderness is full of weeds. The philosopher said, "Yes, the wilderness is full of weeds. What I want to know now is how to get rid of these weeds? " The disciples were very surprised. They didn't expect that the philosopher who has been exploring the mysteries of life asked such a simple question in the last lesson.

A disciple said first, "Teacher, a shovel is enough." The philosopher nodded.

Another disciple went on to say, "It's also a good idea to burn with fire." The philosopher smiled and motioned for the next one.

The third disciple said, "Sprinkle lime and you will get rid of all the weeds."

Then the fourth disciple said, he said, "Just mow the grass and dig it out."

When all the disciples had finished speaking, the philosopher stood up and said, "That's all for this lesson. When you go back, clear the weeds in your own way. If you haven't got rid of it yet, come back and get together in a year. "

A year later, they all came, only to find that the place where they met was no longer overgrown with weeds and became a crop field full of millet. The disciples sat down in the open space in front of the valley and waited for the arrival of the philosopher, but the philosopher never came. A few years later, the philosopher died. When his disciples sorted out his remarks, they added a chapter at the end of the book: There is only one way to eradicate weeds in the wilderness, and that is to plant crops on them. Similarly, the only way to make the soul worry-free is to occupy it with virtue.