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By Eric D MaxeyPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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Pursuit of selflessness

Don't think of yourself as a mouse, or the cat will surely eat you.

In 1858, a rich Swedish family gave birth to a daughter. Soon, however, the child developed an unexplained form of paralysis and lost the ability to walk.

Once, the girl was on a boat trip with her family. The captain's wife told her child that the captain had a bird of paradise, and she was fascinated by the description of the bird, and wished to see it for herself. So the nurse left the child on deck and went to find the captain herself. The child could not bear to wait, and asked the ship's waiter to take her to see the birds of paradise at once. The waiter did not know that her legs could not walk, and only took her to see the beautiful bird.

A miracle happened, the child because of excessive desire, but forget myself to hold the waiter's hand, slowly walk up. Since then, the child's illness has been recovered. When the girl grew up, she devoted herself to literary creation, and finally became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature, that is, Thelma Lagerof.

Warm reminder:

Selflessness is a shortcut to success, only in this kind of environment, people will transcend their own bondage, release the greatest energy.

Optimists and pessimists

An optimist sees an opportunity in every crisis; a pessimist sees a crisis in every opportunity.

The father wants to change the personality of the twin brothers because one is too optimistic and the other is too pessimistic. One day, he bought many bright colored new toys for the pessimistic child, and sent the optimistic child into a garage full of horse manure.

The next morning, the father saw the pessimistic child sobbing, and asked: Why not play with those toys?

"If you play it, it'll break." The child was still crying.

The father sighed and went into the garage, only to find the optimistic child happily digging into the horse manure.

"I tell you, father," declared the boy triumphantly to his father, "I think there must be a pony hiding in the manure!"

Warm reminder:

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is interesting: the optimist sees a doughnut, the pessimist sees a hole.

Take risks

Danger is everywhere for those who fear it.

One day, a lobster and a hermit crab meet in the deep sea, and the hermit crab sees the lobster shedding its hard shell, revealing only its delicate body. The hermit crab is very nervous and says: Lobster, how can you give up the only hard shell that protects your body? Aren't you afraid some big fish will eat you up? In your present condition, even the current will carry you to the rocks, and then you will not die?

The lobster calmly answered: Thank you for your concern, but you do not understand that each time we lobsters grow, we must first remove the old shell, in order to grow a stronger shell, the danger we face now, just to prepare for better development in the future.

Hermit crabs carefully think about it, they only find a place to shelter all day, and have not thought about how to make themselves grow stronger, and only live under the protection of others all day, it is no wonder that they will always limit their development.

Warm reminder:

Everyone has a certain safety zone, you want to transcend their current achievements, please do not draw the limit, the courage to accept challenges to enrich yourself, you will develop better than imagined.

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