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Beethoven. Homer.
Zhang Haidi. Helen Keller, et al.
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Our teachers taught us when we were in elementary school.
Beethoven. Wait a minute.
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1. Beethoven.
In 1798, at the age of 28, Beethoven discovered that he had a hearing problem, and his hearing deteriorated. In 1822, because of the loss of his hearing, Beethoven failed to conduct the prelude of the opera "Fidelio", he threw away his baton, ran home in one breath, collapsed in his chair, and was silent for a long, long time. The worsening of the ear disease caused Beethoven great pain, and his negative emotions reached the extreme, and he wrote a suicide note describing his misery and misfortune.
However, Beethoven did not collapse, he regained his confidence in the fight against deafness, and devoted himself to creation.
2. Sima Qian.
Just as Sima Qian was concentrating on writing the "Historical Records", a flying disaster suddenly befell him. It turned out that Sima Qian offended Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty because he defended a general, and he was imprisoned and tortured.
Sima Qian, who suffered a lot of shame, was filled with grief and indignation, and wanted to splash blood on the wall several times, but he remembered his father's deathbed entrustment, so he wanted to be patient and restrained and complete the work, not to mention, the "Historical Records" had not yet been completed, so he dispelled this idea.
In this way, Sima Qian wrote angrily, and it took him 13 years to finally complete a brilliant masterpiece of 520,000 words, "Historical Records". This unprecedented work, which almost exhausted his life's work, was written by him with his life.
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1. Zu Chongzhi, the ancestor of the Southern Dynasty, under extremely simple conditions at that time, relied on a large number of complex calculations on small pieces of bamboo, over and over again, and failed countless times through the acres of gliding, and finally was the first in the world to accurately measure pi to the seventh decimal place.
2. Edison.
The great inventor Edison, in the process of inventing the electric lamp, did countless failed experiments, tried a total of more than 6,000 kinds of fiber materials, and finally decided to use tungsten filament to make the filament, which improved the service life of the electric lamp.
3. Alexandre Dumas.
The French writer Alexandre Dumas, not relying on his father's fame, decided to use his own strength to achieve something, he sent articles to the newspaper again and again, but the newspaper was withdrawn, but he was not disappointed, still continued to create, after unremitting efforts, finally wrote the famous work "La Traviata".
4. Talk about relocation. In the Ming Dynasty, Tan Qian of China spent 27 years compiling the first draft of the 5 million words of "Guo Yi", which was stolen by greedy people. After three years of supplementation and revision, the final draft was finalized.
It can be said that Tan Qian worked hard to write this book all his life, and he died without regrets. "
5. Beethoven.
The great composer Beethoven was unable to go to university due to poverty, suffered from typhoid fever and smallpox at the age of 17, and unfortunately lost his sense of hearing at the age of 26, and suffered repeated setbacks in love. In this case, Beethoven vowed to "choke life." ”
In the tenacious struggle against fate, in the cause of music creation, the fire of his life burned more and more vigorously. Adversity not only did not frighten him, but became a magnetic field for him to gain strong vitality.
6. John Francoyer Miller.
The French painter John François Millet, who could not sell a single of his works as a young man, was trapped in the abyss of poverty and despair. Later, he moved to the countryside. Although he still could not escape the doom of poverty, he did not stop painting, and since then his paintings have expressed more beautiful nature and simple farmers.
Among them, works such as "Sowing Seeds" and "Gleaning Ears" have also become immortal works in art galleries. If he didn't have the spirit of not being afraid to give up and forging ahead, he would never have been born into an immortal work.