A good mother is better than a good teacher

Chapter 22 Work hard and seize every opportunity to knock on the door of opportunity (1)
write down your dreams
In November 1940, he was born in San Francisco, USA, and his English name was Bruce Lee.Because his father was an actor, he had the opportunity to play tricks since he was a child, so he had a dream of becoming an actor.But because his body was weak, his father asked him to learn martial arts from a teacher to strengthen his body. In 11, he was admitted to Washington State University, majoring in philosophy. Later, he married and had children like all normal people.But deep in his heart, he never gave up his dream of being an actor.

One day, when he was talking about his dreams with a friend, he wrote down his life goals on a sticky note:

"I, Bruce Lee, will be the highest paid superstar in Britain. In return, I will give the most exciting and powerful performances. From 1970, I will win worldwide fame; to In 1980, I will have a wealth of 1000 million US dollars, and my family and I will live a happy, harmonious and happy life at that time."

He was living in poverty when he wrote this note, and it is not difficult to imagine the ridicule it would cause if it were seen by others.

However, he engraved these words deeply in his heart.In order to realize his dream, he has overcome countless difficulties that ordinary people can hardly imagine.For example, he had been lying in bed for 4 months due to a spinal nerve injury, but then he stood up miraculously.

In 1971, the goddess of fate finally smiled on him.He starred in "The Raptors Crossing the River" and several other films have set new box office records in Hong Kong. In 1972, he starred in "Enter the Dragon", a collaboration between Hong Kong Golden Harvest Company and American Warner Company. This film made him an international superstar - known as the "King of Kung Fu". In 1998, the American "Time" magazine named him one of the "20th Century Heroes and Idols", and he was the only Chinese selected.

He is Bruce Lee - an "Asian most known by Europeans", a Chinese star who has enjoyed the highest reputation in the world so far.

In July 1973, he died of illness at the peak of his career.At the "Bruce Lee Relics Auction" held in California, USA, this note was bought by a collector at a high price of 7 US dollars. At the same time, 2.9 copies that were legally allowed to be copied were also snapped up immediately.

mother heart words
Hurry up and write down your ideals, it will motivate you to keep moving forward and make amazing achievements.

aim at your goal

In 1973, a young man named Colette from Liverpool, England, was admitted to Harvard University in the United States. He often sat with him to attend lectures, an 18-year-old American boy with high artistic literacy and full of fantasy. Soon the two became friends. friend.In his sophomore year, the young man discussed with Colette that they dropped out of school together to develop 32Bit financial software, because the financial software was very popular, and the newly compiled textbook had solved the problem of conversion of the base system.

At that time, Colette was very surprised, because he came here to study, not for fun, and now to start a company is simply a dream.Besides, for the Bit system, Professor Moers has only taught a little bit. It is impossible to develop Bit financial software without completing all the courses of the university.And that classmate's point of view is: For the Bit system, the old-fashioned teaching has made us enter the key door. As for the others, we will explore as we go.Colette felt that it was too reckless to drop out of school to do such an unsure thing. He decided to finish all university courses and postgraduate courses, so he tactfully declined the young man's invitation.

Four years later, the young man successfully developed the 4Bit software version and registered his own company. At this time, he once again invited Colette, who had just graduated, to join his company and start a business with him, but at this time Colette Feeling that my knowledge reserve is still insufficient and I still need to study further, I once again declined the invitation politely.

Ten years later, in 10, Colette became a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Harvard University in Bit. The young man who dropped out also entered the US "Forbes" magazine's billionaire list in this year. In 1983, Colette continued his studies and engaged in post-doctoral research; the personal assets of the American young man developed by leaps and bounds in this year, reaching 1992 billion US dollars, becoming the second richest man in the United States after Wall Street tycoon Buffett . In 65, Colette thought that he had enough knowledge to research and develop 1995Bit financial software, and the young man had bypassed the Bit system and developed Eip financial software, which was 32 times faster than Bit and was in two Occupied the global market within a week, thus making 1500Bit software lose the market, this year he became the richest man in the world.A name that represents success and wealth—Bill Gates has also spread to every corner of the world.

mother heart words
The goal is the most important, all actions are for our own ideals, but the way to achieve the goal is not the only way, as the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome, sometimes when we follow the old road step by step, inadvertently someone has Come ahead of us, of course, this requires courage, wisdom and courage.

Achieving big goals in stages
In 1984, at the Tokyo International Marathon Invitational, Japanese runner Yamada Motoichi attracted attention.He wasn't leading at the start of the race, but he kept pace throughout the marathon.Gradually surpassed other players, and finally won the world championship. This result was beyond everyone's surprise, because before that he was just a little-known player, and no one noticed him.After the game, a reporter asked him: "May I ask what you rely on to achieve such an impressive result this time? Is there any secret?" After a moment of silence, he said this sentence: "There is no secret, I just rely on my wisdom defeat the opponent."

Faced with Yamada Motoichi's answer, many people at the time disagreed, thinking that the short player who accidentally ran to the front was playing tricks, and that he was able to win the championship was just his luck.Marathon is a sport that requires physical strength and endurance. As long as you have good physical fitness and patience, you are expected to win the championship. Explosive power and speed are second. It is indeed a bit reluctant to win with wisdom, which is an exaggeration.

Perhaps Yamada Motoichi's "luck" is really good, and his good luck seems to be more than this time.Two years later, the Italian International Marathon Invitational was held in the northern Italian city of Milan, and Motoichi Yamada participated in the competition on behalf of Japan.In this competition, he left one player after another behind with his steady pace, was the first to cross the finish line, and won the world championship again.After the race, the reporter interviewed him again: "Two years ago you won the world championship in the Tokyo International Marathon Invitational, and this time you won the championship again. Could you please talk about your experience in winning the championship?"

Yamada Motoichi has a dull temperament and is not good at talking. Facing the reporter's question, he was silent for a while. His answer was still the same as last time: "Use wisdom to defeat the opponent." This time the reporter did not satirize or ridicule him in the newspaper. , Everyone realized that being able to win two championships is definitely not something that can be explained by luck, and everyone began to face up to this short player and his achievements.But still baffled by his supposed wisdom.

Ten years later, the mystery was finally solved, and it was he himself who solved the mystery, according to Yamada Motoichi in his autobiography. "Before each game, I have to personally survey the terrain, take a car to look at the route carefully, and draw the more eye-catching targets along the way. For example, the first target is a bank, and the second target is a big tree. The tree, the third goal is a red house... This has been drawn until the end of the race. After the race started, I rushed towards the first goal at a speed of 10 meters. After reaching the first goal, I I rushed towards the second goal at the same speed, so the third goal, the fourth goal, until the last goal-the finish line. When I reached the established goals, it was like conquering difficulties This makes me very proud and full of confidence. I already know that the remaining difficulties are getting fewer and fewer, and victory is in front of me. I am getting closer and closer to it. With a distance of more than 40 kilometers In this way, I broke it down into several small goals and ran easily. At first, I didn’t understand the reason. I always set my goal on the flag on the finish line of more than 40 kilometers. As a result, I ran I was exhausted when I reached more than a dozen kilometers, and I was intimidated by the long distance ahead. By chance, I found that I divided the long distance into several sections, and every time I only thought about a small goal When I move forward, the difficulty is not so great. When I achieve all the small goals, what I have accomplished is a big goal. I am no longer tired, and I am full of confidence to move towards my goal.”

mother heart words
It is indeed difficult to achieve lofty goals at once, and it even makes people feel a little hopeless.It is a good way to succeed by dividing the goal into several stages and implementing them in stages, so that you can feel a sense of accomplishment in any stage, and then start the next stage of struggle with hope.

for a holy purpose
At the beginning of 1914, the "Times" published such a recruitment notice:
"The applicant is about to take part in an extremely dangerous journey: an expedition to the Antarctic. The salary is meager, and he needs to work in an area that is extremely cold, dangerous, and where the sun has not been seen for several months. There is no guarantee of safe return, and the only honor he can get if he succeeds."

How many people will apply for the job just because of the word "honor"?The recruiter Shackleton really didn't know what to do.When he wrote this notice, he thought: Compared with "extremely bitter cold", "dangerous" and "safe return cannot be guaranteed", is this "honor of success" too empty and too illusory?But at the same time, he thought: A person who cannot see this kind of honor will not have enough courage and passion to challenge that kind of extreme hardship and hardship, to accept the test of death.He felt that in this announcement, honor was more appealing than money, official position and beautiful women.

To Shackleton's great relief, within a few days after the advertisement was published, as many as 5000 applicants were attracted by the recruitment advertisement!So many people applied for the job, which also made Shackleton's sense of honor stronger and more sacred.

After serious and strict selection, Shackleton finally selected 27 crew members. On August 1914, 8, he left London on a wooden boat and began his expedition to the Antarctic.But they were nearly wiped out.As soon as they reached the Weald Sea on the edge of Antarctica, the ship was stuck deep in the glacier and could not move, and floated with the ice floes in the long and severe winter for 1 months.Even in the severe cold of tens of degrees Celsius below zero every night, the small boat was crushed by huge ice blocks.They had no choice but to try to cross the ice and snow to the sea on foot, but when they were "out of ammunition and food" and seriously exhausted, Shackleton had to give up and go on and sleep on the ice floe with the crew.This stay is another 10 months.In these days, they have nothing, even the hope of life is very slim, but in the heart of each of them, there is a warm flame flickering, supporting them to live tenaciously every day ——That is a sacred and solemn sense of honor.

In the end, Shackleton took several people, overcame unimaginable difficulties, crossed 22 nautical miles in a 1300-foot lifeboat, and moved reinforcements to an island with a whaling station. All crew members returned alive.People still regard them as heroes, and comment on them: "Although this is a failed voyage, it has become a model of bravery and tenacity in human history." And those who supported them through this difficult journey, except those who were The ice, snow and penguin meat they used to satisfy their hunger was the sense of honor that was worthless in the eyes of many people.

mother heart words
People who sacrifice their lives to overcome all difficulties for a sacred and lofty goal can often achieve great things.

The dream of buying a house for mom

Ricky Henry grew up in poverty.His dream is sports.By the time Henry was 16, he had mastered baseball, throwing a fastball at 90 mph and hitting anything that moved on the football field.Not only that, but he was very lucky: Henry's high school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who not only had confidence in Henry, but he also taught Henry how to be confident in himself.He taught Henry that there is a difference between having a dream and showing belief.Finally, something very special happened between Henry and Coach Jarvis and changed Henry's life forever.

It was the summer of Henry's junior year in high school when a friend recommended him to take a part-time job.It's a rare money-making opportunity for Henry, and it means he'll have money to buy a new bike, some new clothes, and he can start saving some money so he can buy his mum a house in the future .Imagining the attractive prospect of this odd job, Henry really wanted to accept this rare opportunity immediately.

However, Henry also realized that in order to keep his odd jobs, he would have to give up his baseball practice, which meant he would have to tell Coach Jarvis that he would not be able to play baseball.Henry was very scared about this, but he still mustered up the courage to go to coach Jarvis and decided to tell the coach about it.

When Henry told Coach Jarvis about this, the coach was as angry as Henry had expected, "From now on, you will have a lifetime of work," he stared at Henry, and said sharply, "However, how many days can you participate in the competition? That is very limited, you can't afford to waste it!"

Henry stood in front of him with his head down, racking his brains on how to explain to him his dream of buying a house for his mother and how much he wanted to be rich. He really didn't know how. Facing the eyes of the coach who was already disappointed in himself.

"Son, can you tell me how much money you're going to make in this job?" the coach asked.

"It's $3.25 an hour." Henry still didn't dare to look up, and replied in a whisper.

"Ah, is the price of a dream worth $3.25 an hour?" the coach asked rhetorically.

This question couldn't be simpler and clearer. It clearly revealed to Henry the difference between focusing on immediate gains and losses and setting long-term goals.That summer, he devoted himself to sports, and that year, he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pyrrot baseball team and signed a $20000 deal.In addition, he has received a football scholarship to the University of Arizona, which enabled Henry to obtain a college education, and he was elected "Football All-American" in two popular votes, as well as a first-round selection in the NFL. , Henry's total score ranked seventh. In 1984, Henry signed a $170 million deal with the Denver Broncos, finally fulfilling his dream of buying a house for his mother.

mother heart words
If you work hard to make money, then you might make some money; but if you work hard for the long run, then you have the potential to not only make a lot of money, but also do a great job.

for a pair of shoes that fit

At that time, he was still a little boy, thriving like mushrooms after rain.Looking at their son's body that is constantly growing upwards and the same "crazy" big feet, the parents are more worried-where can I find a pair of shoes that fit him?

(End of this chapter)