150 Wisdom Stories to Build Good Habits

Chapter 7 Face it positively, the color of the world is up to you (2)
The king returned to the court in embarrassment, rejoicing that he survived the catastrophe, and suddenly thought of what the wise minister said, cutting off his finger was indeed a good thing, so he immediately released him from prison and apologized to him face to face.

Minister Wisdom still keeps his positive attitude, laughing and forgiving the king, saying that it was all a good thing.

The king asked unconvinced: "It is a good thing to say that I cut off my finger, and now I can accept it. But if I say that I misunderstood you and put you in prison to suffer, is it also a good thing?"

The Minister of Wisdom replied with a smile: "Of course it is a good thing that I am in prison. Your Majesty may wish to think about it. If I were not in prison today, who would be the minister who will accompany Your Majesty to hunt?"

So, the king couldn't help sighing: "Yes, everything must have two sides, and you just chose the smart side."

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Optimism and cheerfulness are a positive attitude towards life.It refers to when people are suffering from setbacks, they still firmly believe that the situation will get better and the future is bright.From the perspective of emotional intelligence, optimism is the state of mind that a person does not become disheartened, hopeless or depressed in the face of adversity.

An optimist will always have an optimistic attitude towards everything. Even if he encounters difficulties and setbacks, he will think it is a good thing. Such a life will often have unexpected surprises as the story tells.

Therefore, no matter when you are a teenager, you will develop it into a habit.You should learn to be optimistic. If you can keep optimistic and cheerful at all times, I believe that you will get surprises from time to time and make your life full of joy.

A masterpiece of suffering
The famous Norwegian writer Knut?Hamson was born in a very poor family. When he was 9 years old, his parents were unable to support him due to the poverty of his family, so he had to be raised by his uncle.But my uncle is not married, his income is not high, and he has a bad habit of being rude and overbearing.Knut has to do some heavy physical work every day, and he is often sore from exhaustion.Even so, Knut was scolded and punished by his uncle at every turn.There was no joy in his childhood at all.However, despite his miserable childhood, he never lost hope in life and always looked at each day with optimism.

One day, little Knut got a piece of news that made him very happy——uncle agreed to let him go to school. For this reason, he was so happy that he didn't sleep well for several days.

After he came to the campus, he listened to the class and studied seriously every day. However, because his uncle had no money to buy him new clothes, the clothes he wore were always tattered, and other children didn’t like them either. Play with him, so, many times, little Knut stays alone by the side, watching other little friends play together.At noon, other students ate delicious food brought from home, talking and laughing. Poor little Knut had no food at all, so he had to sit alone in the library, holding I read the book eagerly, even though my stomach growled with hunger.

However, in the library, books gave him the wings of imagination and made him forget his hunger and troubles.In the sea of ​​books, he felt the joy of life, but also experienced the sadness of life.After reading a lot of books, he gradually developed the urge to create.One day, he got a sad news that his most beloved friend - a lovely little deer died of illness.For this reason, he wrote his first work - "Funeral Words" with extreme sadness.

Although the world in the books is rich and colorful, the real life is far from as beautiful as described in the books, and the pain caused by poverty is too great.After studying for a short time, Knut had to run around for his own livelihood, so he had to leave the school he was so fond of, and wandered alone in the south of Norway.During those difficult days, he worked as a clerk in a store, as well as an apprentice and worker in a factory.When he was an apprentice, he was kicked out by his master because he was mistaken for a thief.Finally, he worked as a coal picker in a port.

The poor living environment did not make Knut succumb. He always told himself very optimistically that a better life was waiting for him not far away.Therefore, in order to learn knowledge better, he takes the book with him every day, and reads it at any time between labors.It is precisely because of this that in the end, with his unremitting efforts, he finally had the successful birth of world-famous masterpieces such as "Hunger" and "The Growth of the Land".

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A person has only one life, whether to treat life with a positive and optimistic attitude has a great impact on a person's life.

In life, everyone will encounter setbacks and sufferings, and sometimes the status quo of some setbacks is difficult to break through, and some sufferings are difficult to get rid of.Faced with these difficulties, some people will lose without a fight, beating their chests and feet, and complaining.Such a person can never get out of trouble.Those who really achieve great things will be full of hope, and at the same time, they will also show their positive and optimistic attitude towards life.With this positive and optimistic attitude, they can take the initiative to find happiness in adversity and achieve success.Even if the road is bumpy and thorny.Just like Knut Hamsun in the story.

john chooses to live
John is a sales executive for a company and he is always in a good mood.When someone asked him how he was doing, he replied: "I'm very happy."

If a colleague is in a bad mood, he will tell him how to see the bright side of things.He said: "Every morning, as soon as I wake up, I say to myself, John, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Every time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it, I choose the latter. Life is a choice, and you learn how to choose how to deal with situations. At the end of the day, you choose how to deal with life.”

One day, he was stopped by three gunmen.The gangster shot him.

Fortunately, it was discovered earlier, and John was sent to the emergency room. After 18 hours of rescue and several weeks of intensive treatment, John was discharged from the hospital, but a small part of the shrapnel still remained in his body.

Six months later, a friend of his met him.A friend asked him how he was doing, and he said, "I'm so happy. Would you like to see my scar?" The friend looked at the scar and asked him what he was thinking at that time.John replied: "When I was lying on the ground, I said to myself that I had two choices: one was to die or one was to live. I chose to live. The medical staff were all fine and they told me I would be fine. But After they wheeled me into the emergency room, I read 'he's a dead man' in their eyes. I knew I needed to do something."

"What action did you take?" the friend asked.

John said: "A nurse asked me loudly what I was allergic to. I immediately said 'yes'. At this point, all the doctors and nurses stopped and waited for me to say more. I took a deep breath and shouted. Said: 'Bullet!' Amidst the laughter, I said: 'Please treat me as a living person, not a dead person.'”

John just survived.

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In life, we simply can't make everything go our way, and we will always encounter difficulties of one kind or another.Only those who are not discouraged in adversity and are positive and optimistic can overcome difficulties and enjoy the joy of victory, otherwise they will be overwhelmed by difficulties.Therefore, young friends, when you encounter something, you must use the power of choice.Abandon negative and pessimistic thoughts, choose positive and optimistic thoughts, and learn to be happy.In this way, your life will be full of sunshine, and you will live a relaxed and comfortable life.

success is behind failure

A young man who dreamed of becoming a racing driver grew up driving a truck while serving in the army. After leaving the army, he went to the farm to drive, and participated in skills training and competitions after work, and he was in debt for this.

That year, he competed in Wisconsin racing.When the schedule was more than halfway through, his car was ranked third, and he had great hopes of getting a good position in this race.

Suddenly, the two cars in front of him collided, and he turned the steering wheel of the car quickly, trying to avoid them.But in the end, it failed because the speed of the car was too fast.As a result, he crashed into the wall next to the lane and the car came to a burning stop.

When he was rescued, his hands were scorched, his nose was gone, and 40% of his body was burned.It took the doctor seven hours of surgery before he was freed from death.

After this accident, although his life was saved, his hands shriveled like chicken feet.The doctor told him: "In the future, you will never be able to drive again."

However, he was not discouraged by this.In order to realize that long-held dream, he is determined to pay the price for success once again.He underwent a series of skin grafting operations. In order to restore the flexibility of his fingers, he practiced using the remaining parts to grasp the wooden sticks every day. Sometimes he was so painful that he was sweating profusely, but he still persisted.

He always believed in his ability.After his final surgery, he returned to the farm, switched to driving a bulldozer to re-callous his palms, and continued racing.

Just 9 months later, he is back on the court!He first participated in a charity car race, but failed to win because his car unexpectedly stalled midway.However, in a subsequent 200-mile car race, he achieved No.2 results.

Two months later, he drove into the arena with full confidence at the same arena where the accident happened last time.After some intense competition, he eventually won the 2-mile race.

He is the legendary great racer in the United States - Gumi Haribos.

When Jimmy faced the enthusiastic and crazy audience for the first time as a champion, he shed tears of emotion.Some reporters surrounded him one after another and asked him the same question: "After you suffered that heavy blow, what is the strength that made you recover?"

Jimmy unfolded a promotional picture of this competition. On the front was a racing car speeding against the rising sun. He opened the back, and there was a dignified sentence written in black ink on it: write failure on the back, and believe that you will succeed !

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Everyone needs constant self-motivation, and we cannot spend our whole life trapped in the mire of adversity forever because of temporary setbacks.The value of human beings is that no matter how many times we fall, we can stand up from the ruins of failure, and our life will be colorful because of this.If you are still feeling sorry for your misfortune, then you will not have any future in life.Don't give up on yourself just because of the failures in the exams. The failures will point out where we are still lacking. As long as we persevere and work hard to catch up, we can still get No.1 good grades.And if you are stuck in it and cannot extricate yourself, thinking that your academic performance will never improve, how can you get good grades! ?

Suicide
A psychologist once did such an experiment: put a small white mouse in the center of a pool filled with water.This pool has a relatively large area, but with the ability of the little white mouse, it can swim to the shore.After the little white mouse fell into the water, it did not swim immediately, but turned in a circle and made a "squeak" sound.The small white mouse is measuring the position, and its whiskers are an accurate position detector.Its call traveled to the edge of the pool, and the sound wave reflected back and was detected by the rat whiskers.The mice used this to determine the size of the pool, where they were, and how far they were from the edge of the pool.After screaming and turning a few times, it swam unhurriedly towards the chosen direction, and soon swam to the shore.

At this step, the experiment was not over yet, and the psychologist put another small white mouse in the center of the pool. The difference was that the whiskers of this small white mouse had been cut off.The little white mouse also turned around in the water and made a "squeak" sound. Since the whiskers "as a detector" no longer existed, it could not detect the reflected sound waves and could not judge whether it could swim out. Can turn in circles.After a few minutes, the exhausted mouse sank to the bottom and drowned.Regarding the death of the second mouse, the psychologist explained it this way: the whiskers were cut, the mouse could not measure its position accurately, and could not see the edge of the pool which was actually very close, thinking that it could not swim out anyway, so it stopped He made every effort to end his life by himself.

Psychologists finally came to the conclusion that when life is completely hopeless, animals often forcibly end their own lives, which is called "ideal suicide".The little white mouse whose whiskers were cut off died in the pool, but it was not drowned by the water, but by the idea of ​​"can't swim out anyway".

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It is undeniable that such tragedies not only happen to mice and other animals, but also happen to humans to varying degrees.

On the road of life, everyone may encounter the "pool" encountered by the mouse.At this time, some people, like a little white mouse whose whiskers have been cut off, infinitely exaggerate the adversity they have encountered, thinking that what lies ahead is an ocean of doom, "no matter what, they can't swim out."These people gave up their belief in the last fight, let go of the hands that should not and should not be let go, and let their ideals, ambitions, and ambitions all drown in the shallow and narrow, which is not enough to hurt their own "" pool".Others can judge the situation rationally and get out of adversity by their own efforts.Therefore, it can be said that there are no desperate situations in this world, only people who are desperate for situations.

Post-chapter test: Are you a proactive person?

When the New Year is approaching, all kinds of parties come one after another.Recently, there is a party full of mystery waiting for you.At the prom you can make many attractive friends How will you deal with looking for friends?

1. Grab this opportunity firmly, and make careful preparations for the dance party, and look forward to that day very much.

2. You were encouraged by your friends and colleagues to go to the dance.

3. Because I don’t know how to dance, I decided to give up this opportunity. I thought: There will be many such dances in the future, and it is not necessary to meet good friends and the opposite sex at social dances.You won't regret not going.

4. Want to go to the dance, but careless about the preparations.

Test Results
The one who chose the first answer: activists.You are a curious, energetic individual, career is important to you, and you seem to be achieving something.You are decisive, but perhaps lacking in perseverance.You are enthusiastic and bold in dealing with feelings, but they often cannot last long, so tempering the quality of perseverance is a warm reminder for you.

Those who choose the second answer: seek encouragement.Your hesitation may be because you feel that your eloquence is not good enough, or your appearance is not outstanding enough. In short, lack of self-confidence is your shortcoming.Knowing how to seek external motivation and affirmation is a good way to improve self-confidence.

Choose the third answer: sour grape pie.You are a person who is more self-comforting. Although there will be regrets in your subconscious, you will try to calm down this emotion, which may be an advantage.But in the face of the right opportunity, is a positive attitude and action more useful than negative self-comfort?

Those who choose the fourth answer: Passive waiting pie.You are a relatively passive person. You want to eat fresh grapes, but you refuse to pick them yourself. You only hope that someone can personally deliver the harvested fruits to you.Opportunity does not mean good results, the process requires you to work hard.

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