Life never takes anyone lightly

Chapter 14 Don't give up, don't give up, the world is yours (5)
time is money.We can't be stingy with it, but we can't just throw away every hour like a dollar bill.To waste time is to waste energy, to waste life, to consume human character, and it also means that the opportunity cannot be missed, and the time will never come again.Be vigilant about how you spend your time because all your future depends on it.

Edward Everett said: "Give each man time to develop his talents. He needs to have an eagle's eye and seize every opportunity for self-improvement. Cherish time, resist temptation, and disregard sensual Make yourself a useful, respectable and happy man!"

13. Do what is right and live in the moment

Since the history of the human world, there has never been a greater moment than the present.

The history of human beings in the past is like a snowball, which gets bigger and bigger from generation to generation, but today is the summation of the past centuries, the warehouse of the essence of the past, and the summary of the efforts and contributions of the inventors, creators, thinkers, and technicians of the past.

Today is the greatest day of all time, because it was made of all past ages, and contains all past achievements and progress.Compared with the youth of the same age 50 or 100 years ago, the happiness enjoyed by today's youth is tens of millions of times different.

The invention of steam and electricity liberated people from hard labor, and the hard work of people in the past has created the comfort and freedom of people today.It can be said that the comfort and freedom enjoyed by ordinary people today is something that even emperors did not enjoy 100 years ago.

However, there are still some people who lament that they were born at the wrong time and that the present is not as good as the past, thinking that the past era was a golden age, but the present era is abysmal.

What a big fallacy!
In fact, the most important thing is to pay attention to the present life, yesterday and tomorrow are insignificant.Born in today's world, one should keep in touch with today's society, and never spend too much energy on nostalgia for the past or dream about the future.

Those who live the real life, who know how to make the most of it, who do not waste their energy regretting the mistakes and failures of the past, and dreaming of the comfort and freedom of the future, are more useful than those who look forward and backward, and their lives will certainly be different. More successful and more perfect.

Pay attention to today's life, and don't have big fantasies about future life, so as not to damage the fun in your life.

Don't underestimate the life of this month and this year because of the plans for the next month and the next year.

Don't trample on the roses under your feet today, and don't waste all the happiness you could have enjoyed in this world because of fantasy.

Everyone should enjoy all the comforts and comforts of the present, and not dream too much of next year's motor house; The happiest, sweetest place without being too dreamy of the ideal abode.

This is not to instigate people not to plan for tomorrow, not to tell people not to expect better things in the future, but to tell people not to focus too much on future things, indulge in tomorrow's expectations, and miss today's happiness. Today's opportunity, today's enjoyment.

People should not always focus on the expectation of future life, because if they stay in the expectation, they will feel boring in today's life, not interested in today's career, and destroy the ability to enjoy the present life.

The real happiness is hidden in the real every day of people's life, hidden in the present moment.

14. Persevere until the end, you are the winner

Shakespeare once said: The failure of millions of people all fail in not doing things thoroughly.

Many people often stop when they are one step away from success.In fact, as long as we can persist for a while, we will see the dawn of success; if we don't give up lightly and persist until the end, then the door of success will open to us.

When Mr. Silas Field retired, having accumulated a large sum of money, it occurred to him that he wanted to lay a cable connecting Europe and the United States on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

He then devoted himself to promoting the cause.Early groundwork included the construction of a 1000-mile telegraph line from New York to St. John's, Newfoundland.Newfoundland's 400-mile telegraph line ran through untouched forests, so completing the job involved building not only a telegraph line but a road of equal length.In addition, it also includes a total of 440 miles of lines across the entire island of Cape Breton, plus the laying of cables across the Strait of St. Lawrence, the whole project is very huge.

Field tried his best and finally got funding from the British government.However, his plan faced strong opposition in parliament and was passed by a majority in the upper house by just one vote.Subsequently, the laying work of Field began.One end of the cable is placed on the British flagship "Agamemnon" moored in the port of Sebastopol, and the other end is placed on the US Navy's newly built luxury frigate "Niagara". But it was suddenly caught in the machine and broke.

Field was not reconciled and conducted a second test.In this test of the cable, the current was suddenly interrupted when it was 200 miles long, and the people on board were pacing up and down anxiously on the deck.Just when Mr. Field was about to give the order to cut the cable and abandon the experiment, the electric current appeared as suddenly and miraculously as it disappeared.At night, the steamer sailed slowly at 4 miles per hour, and the laying of cables was also carried out at 4 miles per hour.At this time, the ship suddenly tilted heavily, the brake braked urgently, and unfortunately cut the cable again.

But Field is not one to give up easily.He ordered another 700 miles of cable and at the same time hired a specialist to design a better machine for such a long lay.Later, scientists from the United Kingdom and the United States joined forces to drive out the machine.

Finally, the two warships rendezvoused in the Atlantic, and the cables were connected: the two ships then sailed on, one to Ireland and the other to Newfoundland.The two ships were less than 3 miles apart when the cable disconnected again; when it was reconnected, the two ships continued their voyage, and when they were 8 miles apart, the current ceased again.After the cable was connected a third time, 200 miles laid, it was disconnected 20 feet from the "Agamemnon", and the two ships finally had to return to the coast of Ireland.

At this time, many people involved in this matter were discouraged, and public opinion also showed a skeptical attitude towards this. Investors also lost confidence in this project and were unwilling to invest again.

Had it not been for Mr. Field, had it not been for his indomitable spirit, his genius for persuasion, the project might have been abandoned.Field continued to work on this day and night, even to the point where he forgot to sleep and eat, and he was not reconciled to failure.

So the third attempt was started again, and this time everything went well, all the cables were laid without any interruption, several messages were sent through this long submarine cable, everything seemed to be done, but suddenly the electric current interrupted again.

At this time, with the exception of Field and one or two of his friends, there were few people who did not feel hopeless.But Field continued to work hard, and he finally found investors and started a new attempt.

They bought a better quality cable, and this time it was the "Great Eastern", which slowly sailed out to the ocean, laying the cable all the way down, and everything went well, but in the end the laying was 600 miles across Newfoundland When the cable was being routed, the cable suddenly snapped again and fell to the bottom of the sea.They salvaged it several times, but without success.As a result, the work was delayed, and it lasted for a year.

All these difficulties did not deter Field.He formed a new company to continue the work and produced a new type of cable that far outperformed ordinary cables.

On July 1866, 7, a new test began again, and it was successfully connected, sending the first transatlantic telegram.The telegram read: "July 13th. We arrived at our destination at 7 p.m. and all was well. Thank God! Cables are all laid and in perfect order. Silas Field."

A short time later, the original cable that had fallen to the bottom of the sea was brought up, reconnected, and connected all the way to Newfoundland.Now, these two cable lines are still in use, and it will not be a problem to use them for a few more decades.

Field's success proves that as long as you persevere and don't give up, you will have unexpected gains.However, many people often do things halfway.They don't know that, in fact, as long as they put in a little more effort and persevere for a while, those things that they have worked so hard for will be obtained.Unfortunately, when the goal is about to be achieved, many people give up all at once.

The British poet William Cooper once said earnestly: "Even if it is a dark day, if it lasts until dawn, there will be dawn again."

It is true that the last effort is often the blow of victory.

In the autumn of 1941, Britain was struggling during the Second World War.Prime Minister Churchill was under pressure from the cabinet to compromise with Hitler and seek the possibility of peace.

Churchill refused, saying things would change, America would enter the war and the situation would be broken.He was firm in his claims. Someone once asked him why he was so sure. He replied: "Because I study history, and history tells us that as long as you last long enough, things will always turn around."

On December 1941, 12, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, just a few weeks after Churchill's speech.Hitler knew the news and immediately declared war on the United States. The situation was reversed overnight, and all American troops rushed to the British side.Japan's one-sided military actions affected the world situation, enabling Churchill to save Britain from being devastated by the Nazi German army.

Persistence to the end, this is "perseverance".In this world, nothing can replace perseverance.

Ability cannot replace perseverance, and the most common thing in this world is capable losers; genius cannot replace perseverance, and failed geniuses are common; education cannot replace perseverance, and the world is full of highly educated people who are eliminated.With grit combined with determination, you will be invincible.

Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC fried chicken fast food restaurant, is a typical example.Originally he had a restaurant next to an old road, but after the construction of a new road, cars would not pass by here, so he had to close the restaurant.At this time he was already 60 years old.

He thinks that his only possession—the secret recipe for making fried chicken—must be asked for.So he set out to visit people he thought would be willing to invest in the recipe.He asked one, two...hundreds, but no one wanted it, but he still believed that "someone must want it", and kept researching the reasons why the other party didn't accept it.In this way, after 1009 attempts, someone is finally willing to invest.He successfully founded a world-renowned fast food company, and started his new business at an age when everyone thought it was hopeless.

Persistence doesn't necessarily mean sticking to the same thing forever.What it really means is that you should focus on what you are doing; you should do a little more and a little better than you think you can; On the way, practice more times, get up a little earlier every morning, and research how to improve your current work and situation at any time.

Behind every successful person is full of hard work.

The famous pianist Beethoven was surrounded by a crowd praising musical geniuses after a wonderful performance.A female music fan rushed forward and shouted: "Oh, sir, if God gave me a talent like yours, how wonderful it would be!"

Beethoven replied: "It's not a talent, ma'am, and it's not a miracle. As long as you keep practicing the piano for 8 hours a day, for 40 years, you can do as well as me."

(End of this chapter)