A good mother is better than a good teacher

Chapter 23 Work hard and seize every opportunity to knock on the door of opportunity (2)
At that time, in order to buy him a pair of extra-large shoes that fit his feet, his parents almost went all over the streets and alleys of Shanghai, but they often returned disappointed.So, this tall boy had a taste of "wearing small shoes".Once, his parents gritted their teeth and asked a relative and friend in the United States to mail-order a pair of Nike sneakers for him at a cost of nearly $100.For a family that is not well-off, this pair of expensive Nike shoes is simply a luxury.Therefore, he cherishes it like a treasure.Later, the pair of shoes were worn out and worn out, and he was reluctant to throw them away.

Later, he entered the Eastern Men's Basketball Club to play with his superhuman height advantage.At that time, the team was sponsored by Nike, but the sponsorship was limited to first-line players.Therefore, as a training player, he secretly made up his mind: he must train hard, and he must enter the first team. As long as he enters the first team, he will not have to worry about running out of shoes, so as not to let his parents make trouble for him again.He is Yao Ming, the basketball star that Chinese people around the world are proud of today.It's not for winning the championship, let alone joining the NBA. All his efforts at the beginning were just to have a pair of shoes that fit his feet.

mother heart words
A thousand miles begins with a single step.A grand goal must be composed of many small goals.Take positive actions and gradually achieve small goals, and success will be closer and closer to you.

which key is gates carrying

In May 2001, Madison Middle School in Nevada, USA, asked such a question during the entrance examination: Bill Gates had 5 drawers with locks on his desk, which were respectively labeled Wealth, Interest, Happiness, Honor and Success. 5 tags; Gates always carries only one key, and locks the other 5 in the drawer, which key does Gates bring?Which drawer or drawers are the other 4 locks in?

A foreign student who had just immigrated to the United States happened to catch up with this exam. When he saw this question, he panicked because he didn't know whether it was an English question or a math question.After the exam, he went to ask his guarantor, a trustee of the school.The director told him that it was an intelligence test question, the content was not in the book, and there was no standard answer. Everyone was free to answer according to their own understanding, but the teacher had the right to give a score based on his point of view.

Foreign students scored 9 points on this 5-point question.The teacher thought that he didn't answer a single word, at least it showed that he was honest, and based on this, he should give more than half of the marks.What he couldn't understand was that his deskmate only scored 1 point for answering this question.The answer at the same table was that what Gates brought was the key on the wealth drawer, and the other keys were locked in this drawer.

Later, the question was sent back to the foreign student's original country by E-mail.The student said to his classmates in the email, now I know which key Gates is carrying. Anyone who answers this key has been affirmed and appreciated by the rich man. Would you like to test it and say Might get some inspiration from it.

We don't know how many answers the students gave.However, it is said that a smart classmate posted on the website of Madison Middle School in the United States, and he sent a reply letter from Bill Gates to the school on the website.There is such a sentence written on the letter: The secret of your life is hidden in the things you are most interested in.

mother heart words
Almost everyone wants to pursue a lot of goals.When you have to make the only choice, your interests are often more important than fame and wealth!

act towards a defined goal

A doctor of philosophy was walking in the field and found that the newly planted seedlings in the paddy field were so neatly arranged, as if they had been measured with a ruler.

He couldn't help but curiously asked the old farmer working in the field how he did it.

The old farmer was busy planting seedlings, and without raising his head, he asked him to take a handful of seedlings and plant them himself.

The doctor rolled up his trousers and happily planted a row of seedlings, but the result was uneven, which was unbearable to witness.He asked the old farmer again.

The old farmer told him that while bending over to plant rice seedlings, his eyes should be fixed on one thing.

The doctor did as he said, but unexpectedly, the seedlings planted this time turned into a curved arc.

The old farmer asked him, "Are you staring at something?"

"Yeah, I've got my eye on the buffalo grazing over there, that's a big target!"

"Buffaloes are walking and grazing, and the seedlings you planted are also moving. How do you think this arc came about?"

The doctor suddenly realized that this time, he chose a big tree in the distance.

mother heart words
If your goal is drifting, you won't get anywhere.

refuse to stay behind forever
Huang Shen, a native of Ninghua, Fujian Province, studied painting with Mr. Shangguan Zhou, an old painter from the same county. The essence has been learned by hand, and the painting is very good.

People praised him for having learned a lot, but he himself felt dissatisfied, as if something important was missing, and he felt that he was not yet a competent student.

One day, he held the famous painting of Mr. Shangguan Zhou again, looked at it, concentrated all his energy on it, suddenly sighed, and said: "My teacher, Mr. Shangguan Zhou, is so skilled, I can hardly compete with the teacher! But a young man with ambition should stand on his own. How can I, Huang Shen, be willing to stay behind forever!"

Like going crazy, he forgot morning and evening, hunger and heat and cold. He has been thinking about this problem for several months, but he just can't find a new path.

Knowing the students' distress, Shangguan Zhou inspired Huang Shen to read more.Huang Shen listened to his teacher's instructions, learned calligraphy from Huai Su, imitated Jin Yuan in poetry, imitated Tianchi in painting, and read hundreds of works.But when he started painting by himself, he felt that there were traces of others everywhere in the painting, and he still couldn't make his own way.He couldn't open his eyebrows and couldn't relax.

One day, Shangguan Zhou suddenly asked Huang Shen, "Have you read Zhang Qin's poems?"

Huang Shen said: "Sir, the student has read it."

But think about it later: there is always a reason for my husband to ask me this.So, after reading Zhang Qin's poems carefully, I realized that there are paintings in Zhang Qin's poems, so the artistic conception of the poems is very beautiful.He couldn't help asking himself: "Huang Shen Huang Shen, there are paintings in Zhang Qin's poems, do you want poems in Huang Shen's paintings?"

For a while, he couldn't clearly answer the question he had raised.

He went to the street, walked on the street thinking, thinking and walking, and finally realized: Mr. Shangguan Zhou's paintings, Zhang Qin's poems, Huai Su's calligraphy, they all have their own artistic characteristics, but what about me, Huang Shen Woolen cloth?Thinking of this, he couldn't help suddenly being enlightened, and the world suddenly opened up in front of him.He hurried into the nearest shop, borrowed paper, pen, ink and inkstone from the shop owner, and then waved the brush on the desk in the shop, drawing those wonderful things in his heart.

Huang Shen's strange behavior alarmed the shop owner and buddies, and even attracted passers-by to enter the shop to see what happened. Soon, the shop was full of people looking at the paintings.

Huang Shen didn't seem to see anyone, he only focused on waving his paintbrush.After finishing the painting, he tossed the pen and suddenly slapped the desk and shouted, "I got it! I got it!"

The onlookers couldn't understand the strange words of the strange artist, they only looked at his painting, there was not much ink on the picture, and they couldn't see clearly what was painted, thinking that the artist had gone crazy.

Only then did Huang Shen realize that there were many people gathered around to look at his paintings.He smiled and waved to everyone.The onlookers began to disperse. It was strange to say that they were about ten feet away. Looking at the picture again, the scribbled brush and ink suddenly appeared as a few stalks of narcissus. Some just grew, and some had two bright flowers. .The narcissus and narcissus are full of newborn and thriving expressions.The more they watched it, the more they liked it, and they all praised it in unison: "Weird people and weird paintings are just weird and good!"

Huang Shen rolled up the painting with a silent smile, thanked the shop owner, and then squeezed his way through the crowd and left.

Mr. Shangguan Zhou was overjoyed when he saw his student Huang Shen making rapid progress. He said to everyone, "I have Huang Sheng under my school, just like there is Lu Gong after Wang Youjun. As a teacher, I am so excited to see my students making such progress!"

mother heart words
Don't be easily satisfied in your studies, and strive to pursue the realm of "going to the next level".

Design for the photo that will be taken
The famous Canadian photographer Joseph Kashi is known as a master of photography because of his outstanding achievements in the art of photography.

During his lifetime, Kashi has photographed more than 5000 accomplished individuals, many of whom are household names and world famous figures.Among them are heads of state, famous scientists, writers, artists, etc.

Kashi is in Ottawa, Canada, where she takes portraits for pleasure.The portraits he took are vivid, can fully reflect a character's personality, and can even express the spirit of the country and nation represented by some celebrities.

There is one thing that best describes Kashi's photography style.

In the winter of 1941, then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Canada.On the eve of Churchill's arrival in Ottawa, Kahi, then 33, asked his friend, Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, to help him take a portrait of Churchill.Mackenzie King granted his request.

That night, Kashi couldn't sleep all night.The next day, after hearing Churchill's sensational speech in the parliament hall, he hurried across the hall to the speaker's room. He set up a floodlight in a corner of the speaker's room and made all preparations.Soon, he heard footsteps, and Mackenzie King welcomed Churchill to the speaker's room.Cashy also immediately turned on the floodlights.

Churchill asked with a cigar in his mouth: "What is this for?" The people on the left and right laughed, while Mackenzie King smiled and said nothing.At this time, Kashi quickly bowed to Churchill and said, "Your Excellency, I would like to take a photo of you to commemorate this historic event." Churchill said angrily, "Why didn't you tell me in advance?" But he finally Still agreed to Kashi's request.

At this moment, Kashi was about to press the shutter, when suddenly he had an idea, approached Churchill, and said to him: "I'm sorry, sir!" Before he finished speaking, he pulled the cigar from Churchill's mouth.Churchill suddenly flew into a rage.At this moment, there was only a click, and a masterpiece that became famous all over the world was photographed, and it took only 2 minutes to shoot this masterpiece.

When this photo of Churchill was developed in the darkroom, it was seen that he was leaning on a cane with one hand and the other was on his waist, with an angry face and an imposing manner.After seeing this photo, Kashi said with confidence: "This is a masterpiece." Later, it turned out that it was exactly the same. This photo was widely circulated all over the world. Photo.At the same time, the photo was printed on postage stamps of seven countries.The picture is seen around the world as a symbol of Britain's wartime spirit.Kashi also wrote in an article published later: "Churchill in the photo is a symbol of wartime Britain, standing upright and indomitable." Since then, Kashi has become famous all over the world. After that, I have no time to rest."

It can be nerve-wracking to design for a photo shoot.Kashi is also often annoyed by the fear that the photo shoot will not turn out to be ideal.Therefore, he often stays up all night before an important shooting task, and he is tired and nervous the next day.But oddly enough, the more so, the better the photo.That's why Kashi said: "I often use the length of sleepless nights to judge how successful the next day's photo is."

mother heart words
To do a good job, it is not enough to be willing to do something, you must also be diligent in using your brain, so as to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Sequence of letters on typewriter keyboard
In the 19s, Shoals was the largest manufacturer of typewriters at the time.Since the mechanical technology was not perfect at that time, the rebound speed of the keys after hitting them was relatively slow. Once the typist hits the keys too fast, it is easy for the phenomenon that the two keys overlap together. Separating them seriously affects the speed of typing, and for this reason, the company often receives complaints from customers about this problem.

In order to solve this problem, the designers and engineers of Sholes Company were very troubled, because there was really no way to increase the rebound speed of the keys.Later, a clever engineer proposed that the reason for the typewriter's keystrokes was related to the rebound speed of the keys on the one hand, and on the other hand, to be too fast with the typist's keystrokes.Since we can't improve the rebound speed of the key, why don't we try to reduce the typing speed of the typist?
This approach has been approved by most people.So, how to reduce the typist's keystroke speed?The easiest way is to shuffle the order of the 26 letters, putting the more commonly used letters under the clumsier fingers and the less frequently used ones under the more sensitive fingers.For example, the letter A is a letter that is used more frequently, but it is placed under the little finger of the left hand. In the same way, letters such as V, R, U, etc. that are used less frequently are controlled by the most flexible index finger.Later, due to the development of materials and technology, the rebound speed of the keys was much faster than the typist's keystroke speed, but the order of the keyboard letters of the typewriter at that time is still used by us until today.Now a lot of people may have such a question, on the keyboards used today, the arrangement of letters is not very scientific, why those newly launched keyboard arrangement styles are not popularized, this just shows how powerful the power of habit is .

mother heart words
There is a lot of resistance to challenging a habit, and once that resistance is broken, great progress can be made.

four men in search of new lands

Four people looking for the New World, after escaping the violent wind and huge waves, are almost naked. One of them is a merchant, one is a nobleman, one is a shepherd, and the other is a prince.They fell into exile, and their fate was like that of generals who fell out of favor and became beggars, living by begging along the way.Although the four people have different identities from different places, their fate brought them together.

They sat down by a spring, where the poor wretched were conferring together how to get out of their predicament.The prince talked about the misfortunes of great people, while the shepherd thought that if everyone wanted to get rid of the past memories, everyone had to do their best and contribute to the common needs. "What problem can complaining solve?" said the shepherd. "As long as we work, we will surely achieve our goal."

The shepherd's proposition was immediately agreed by the other three. The businessman knew mathematics, and he said: "I will teach mathematics, and the time I pay counts."

"I teach politics," the prince went on.

The noble also quickly said: "Well, I know music, I can start a school."

The shepherd said: "Friends, you are right, but there are 30 days in a month. During this time, you will not get paid. What should we do? We have to starve with empty stomachs? You gave me a first line Good hope, but it's too far away. And now we are hungry, who among us can feed us tomorrow? Or who can say, whether we will have dinner today? That is our first priority, more than anything else Important. In this respect, your knowledge is useless, and I can make it a reality."

After all, the shepherd hid in the forest, and the money he earned from chopping firewood was exchanged for food for the day and the next day, which solved the long-term starvation situation. The four of them also played their respective strengths in the future.

mother heart words
No matter how the world changes, ability is the basis for a person to stand in society and survive.It's just that sometimes it's not necessary to earn a living with advanced knowledge, but practical skills are more valuable.

Seize every opportunity to knock on the door of opportunity

One day, a grand banquet was about to be held in Signo Farrero's mansion, and the master invited a large number of guests.On the eve of the banquet, the dim sum maker in charge of table setting sent someone to say that the large dessert ornament he designed to be placed on the table was accidentally damaged, and the housekeeper was in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)