Inspirational Short Story

Inspirational Short Story

In Norway, a storyteller who traveled the streets to tell stories in bars, kindergartens and small schools met a Chinese woman at a dinner. The woman kindly advised him, "You don't have a job here anyway, so why not go to China and teach foreign languages? At least you will have a stable career and income. The storyteller was surprised and seriously corrected the woman: "Madam, I am a freelancer. My profession is to go around the streets and tell stories to the people. How can you say that it is not a profession?

　　After the dinner, the woman was lamenting to her western friend: Look at him, a poor storyteller, he doesn't know what's coming next, and he doesn't appreciate my help to find a way out. It seems that we Chinese are good, we came here to fight with our bare hands to make a decent career, middle class salary and a small house ...... Westerners looked at her with eyes wide open, full of pity for her. This woman left her husband and 10-year-old daughter to come to a foreign country alone, and she has not seen her family for four years. Westerners cannot tolerate the long separation of husband and wife and children, and it is a great pain for them not to have their families together. This pain is the lack of life that cannot be compensated by foreign buildings and high salaries.

　　In the eyes of Westerners, it is too cruel to pay such a price for success and success. Is this the only shallow standard of success in life? Why do Chinese people always snobbishly judge heroes by material things like wealth, foreign buildings, degrees, white collars, etc.? In my opinion, success has a very rich meaning. To live happily with your family is a kind of success, to do your job well in your own position is a kind of success, and to work hard to overcome your bad habits is also a kind of success. How to understand success is not the same for everyone, so how can we force it to be the same?

　　In 1965, a student from country X went to Cambridge University to major in psychology. During his afternoon tea, he often went to the school's café or coffee table to listen to some successful people chat. These successful people include Nobel laureates, academic authorities in certain fields and some people who have created economic myths, these people are funny, light-hearted, their successes are seen as very natural and natural. Over time, he discovered that he had been deceived by some successful people while he was in the country. Those people generally exaggerated their own hardships in order to discourage people who were starting their own businesses, that is, they were using their success stories to scare those who had not yet succeeded. As a student of psychology, he saw a great need to study the mentality of successful people in country X. In 1970, he submitted "Success is not as hard as you think" as his thesis to Professor Will Braden, the founder of modern economic psychology. After reading it, Professor Braden was pleasantly surprised. He thought it was a new discovery, a phenomenon that, although widespread in the East and even around the world, had not been boldly proposed and studied by anyone before. Surprised, he wrote to his Cambridge alumnus, Park Chung-hee, who was then sitting in the first chair in the political arena of X country. In his letter, he said, "I dare not say how helpful this work will be to you, but I am sure it will create more of a shock than any of your decrees." Later the book did take off along with the economy of X. This book has inspired many people because it shows people from a new perspective that success is not necessarily related to "toil and hunger", "the light of the night", "hanging a beam from the head and stabbing a thigh with an awl "There is no necessary connection. As long as you are interested in a certain cause and persevere for a long time you will succeed, because God has given you enough time and wisdom to do something successfully. Later, this young man also achieved success, and he became the president of X Country Pantech Auto.

　　Warm tip: Many things in this world can be done as long as one wants to do them, and the difficulties that should be overcome can be overcome without any iron will, and without any skill or strategy. As long as a person is still living a simple and interesting life, he will eventually find that the Creator's arrangements for the world, are all water.

　　 Loose straw shoe straps

　　In one case, Kanya, a master of Japanese song and dance, played the role of an ancient people who traveled on foot. Just as he was about to go on stage, one of his disciples reminded him, "Master, the strap of your straw shoe is loose."

　　As he walked to the entrance of the stage, which the disciple could not see, he crouched down and loosened the laces of the shoes he had just tied again.

　　Obviously, his goal was to try to show the people's tiredness after a long journey by loosening the laces of their straw shoes. The master was really good at acting in such a delicate way.

　　It so happened that a reporter came backstage that day and saw this scene. After Den's performance, the reporter asked Kanya, "Why didn't you teach your student at that time? He doesn't know the true meaning of acting."

　　Kanya replied, "The love and kindness of others must be received openly. There are plenty of opportunities to teach students the skills of acting. On today's occasion, the most important thing is to receive the reminders of others with gratitude and to give them back."

　　Acting is being human. When you are a human being, you will be able to do things well. Kanye tells us to never arbitrarily seal the door of kindness to you from others.

　　The famous American inventor Rand is famous for developing the instantaneous visualizer, and he is also one of the most fruitful and famous entrepreneurs in the world. He was awarded more than 200 patents. If anyone bought $100 of stock in his company "Polaroid" when it was founded, that $100 would become $200,000 30 years later.

　　In 1937, when Polaroid was first established, sales were $402,000, in 1941 they reached $1 million, and in 1947 they reached $1.5 million. "After the Polaroid camera was put on the market, the company's sales soared from $1.5 million in 1948 to $65 million in 1958, an increase of more than 40 times in 10 years. "The birth of the Polaroid camera also led to a significant increase in sales of the company's soft film. "After the Polaroid camera was manufactured, how to promote and market the new camera became an important problem for Rand.

　　He originally considered some traditional marketing methods, and even intended to sell along the door. Soon, he hired a very reputable salesman --- Holla? Butz. Butz was immediately attracted to the new camera after seeing it and soon joined Rand's company. He became vice president and general manager. He not only brought his fame to the company, but also made the company a big breakthrough in sales, and made the "Polaroid camera" famous far and wide without a lot of advertising money. "The original marketing method he used was to select one department store in each major city to market the Polaroid camera and give it exclusive rights, on condition that the department store had to advertise in the city and sell it in the store with great fanfare. This approach worked so well that on November 26, 1948, when the camera was first listed in a Boston store, people clamored to buy it, and the busy salesman ended up selling the exhibit without parts inside.

　　Butz also had a unique way of selling the new camera, which was to use famous tourist areas to sell the new camera, allowing thousands of tourists to take the camera around the country, invariably becoming volunteer promoters. Butz in the tourist destination publicity is also very interesting, he hired some slim and beautiful girls, let them wear fashionable swimming costumes, swimming in the pool or beach bath. They pretended to drown and were rescued by some "lifeguards", so that curious people came to watch, and then the "Polaroid camera" will come into play, snatching some wonderful shots, and immediately send the photos to the hands of surprised tourists. In this way, the instantaneous image camera showed its power, and many customers competed to buy it, and it became a best-selling brand-name product in the country.

　　People's potential is infinite, people want to succeed, we must be good at their own creativity, here to Rand's own experience to you: "firmly go their own way, and do not care what others will say how to do; rely on themselves in everything, do not put their hopes on others; dry to concentrate on doing, will not stop until the purpose."

　　 1、Barene who overcame disability - persistence

　　Barreni became disabled due to illness when he was a child, his mother's heart was like a knife twist, but she still forced herself to hold back her grief. She thought that what the child needed most now was encouragement and help, not her mother's tears. The mother came to Bareni's hospital bed, took his hand and said, "Son, mommy believes you are a man of ambition, and I hope you can use your legs and walk bravely on the road of life! Good Barreni, will you be able to promise your mother?"

　　The mother's words hit Barreni's heart like a hammer, and he cried "wow" and threw himself into her arms.

　　From then on, as soon as she could, she gave Barreni practice walking and gymnastics, often sweating profusely. Once her mother got a bad cold, and she thought, "Motherhood is not only about teaching by word but also by example. Despite her high fever, she got out of bed and helped Barreni practice walking as planned. Sweat like beans dripped down her mother's face, and she wiped it off with a dry towel, gritting her teeth and helping Barreni complete his exercise program that day.

　　The physical exercise made up for the inconvenience caused by Barreni's disability. His mother's example educated him so much that he finally withstood the harsh blows of fate. He studied hard and was always at the top of his class. Finally, he was admitted to the medical school of the University of Vienna with excellent grades. After graduating from the university, Barreni devoted all his energy to the study of otologic neurology. Finally, he reached the podium of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.