Inspirational article read by senior one students: In a famous church in Seattle, USA, there was a respected priest-Dale Taylor. One day, he told the following story to the students for the first time in a church school class.
That winter, the hunter went hunting with his hounds. The hunter shot a rabbit in the hind leg, and the injured rabbit ran away desperately, followed by hounds. But after chasing for a while, the rabbit ran farther and farther. The hounds knew that they couldn't catch up, so they had to go back to the hunter angrily. The hunter said angrily, "You are so useless that you can't even catch an injured rabbit!" " "
The hound was unconvinced and argued, "I have tried my best!" " "
In addition, the rabbit managed to escape home with a gunshot wound. The brothers all gathered around and asked him in surprise, "That hunting dog is so fierce. You're hurt again. How did you get rid of it? "
The rabbit said, "It's trying, and I'm trying!" " ! It didn't catch up with me and was scolded at most. If I don't run hard, I will die! "
After telling this story, Pastor Taylor made a solemn promise to the whole class: If anyone can recite all the contents of Chapters 5 to 7 of Matthew, he will invite someone to a free dinner at the Space Needle Restaurant in Seattle.
There are tens of thousands of words in Chapters 5 to 7 of Matthew, and they don't rhyme, so it is undoubtedly very difficult to recite the whole text. Although it is the dream of many students to attend a free dinner, almost everyone has tried and stopped.
A few days later, a 1 1 year-old boy in the class stood confidently in front of pastor Taylor and recited it from beginning to end as required. He didn't miss a word, and in the end, it became full of recitation.
Pastor Taylor knows better than others that even among adult believers, few people can recite these pages, let alone a child. While admiring the boy's amazing memory, Pastor Taylor couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why can you recite such a long text?"
The boy replied without thinking, "I tried my best."
16 years later, the boy became the boss of a world-famous software company. He is Bill Gates.
The story told by pastor Taylor and Bill Gates' successful recitation are very enlightening: everyone has great potential. As psychologists have pointed out, the average person's potential is only about 2-8, and great scientists like Einstein have only developed about 12. If a person develops 50% of his potential, he can recite 400 textbooks, finish courses in more than a dozen universities and master more than 20 languages of different countries. In other words, we still have 90% potential and are still asleep. Who wants to excel and create miracles, it is not enough to do their best, they must do their best.
Last week, I listened to four classes in Class 14. During the class meeting on Friday, I went to 14 class and held a class meeting for the children. First of all, I asked a question: Whose world is this? After the children rushed to answer, I told them that this world is not a world of rich people, nor a world of powerful people, but a world of people with will. Then I exchanged my feelings about the class with my classmates. The children in this class have weak foundation, poor self-control and poor study habits. Some students don't even know how to take notes. In view of the children's confusion, I took Xiao Jian, a student I taught, as an example to tell them that the whole world makes way for people who are determined to achieve their goals. Xiao Jian had the same starting point with them, but with strong perseverance, he passed the Shanghai Jiaotong University with the first grade, and won the full prize to go to the National University of Singapore for postgraduate study. After his success, he gave up the generous treatment abroad and resolutely returned to the motherland to contribute to the development of the motherland. His success is not only academic success, but also life success. This example can be said to have deeply shocked and moved the children in 14 class. I told them that as long as they work hard, it is never too late to start, and the teacher will not let a student fall behind. After speaking for a whole hour, the children gave me warm applause. I wish these lovely children determination and long-term ambition in the new semester; Try again; Do your best, do your best. Look at this story again, it is more inspiring! More motivated!
There is a man who has experienced 1009 failures in his life. But he said, "One success is enough."
At the age of five, my father died suddenly, leaving no property. Mother goes out to work. Young, he took care of his siblings at home and learned to cook by himself.
12 years old, his mother remarried, and his stepfather was very strict with him, often beating him up while his mother was out.
/kloc-dropped out of school at the age of 0/4 and started a wandering life.
/kloc-lied about his age and joined the expeditionary force at the age of 0/6. He was sent back to his hometown in advance because of the serious seasickness during the voyage.
18 years old, married a wife. But after only a few months, the daughter-in-law sold all her property and fled back to her family.
At the age of 20, he worked as an electrician, a ferry driver and later as a railway worker. None of them work smoothly.
At the age of 30, he worked as a salesman in an insurance company. Later, he fell out with his boss over the bonus issue and resigned.
3 1 year-old, taught himself law, and became a lawyer at the instigation of his friends. In a trial, he actually got into a fight with his client in court.
At the age of 32, he lost his job and lived a very difficult life.
At the age of 35, misfortune befell him again. When he crossed a bridge, the wire rope on the bridge broke. He fell into the river with his car and was seriously injured, so he can't be a tire salesman anymore.
At the age of 40, he opened a gas station in the town, and his competitors were injured by hanging billboards, causing disputes.
At the age of 47, he divorced his second wife, and the three children were deeply affected.
At the age of 6/kloc-0, he ran for the Senate and finally lost.
At the age of 65, the government built roads and demolished his newly booming fast food restaurant, so he had to sell all the equipment at a low price.
At the age of 66, in order to make a living, he went to small restaurants all over the country to promote his fried chicken technology.
At the age of 75, he felt overwhelmed and transferred his own brand and patent. The new owner offered him 10000 shares as part of the purchase price, but he refused. Later, the company's stock soared, and he lost the opportunity to become a billionaire.
At the age of 83, he opened a fast food restaurant, but he sued others for trademark patents.
At the age of 88, he finally achieved great success and his name was famous all over the world.
He is the founder of KFC, Harland Sanders. He said: "People often complain about the bad weather, but it's not really bad weather. As long as you are optimistic and confident, every day is good weather. "
Inspirational articles read by senior one students A young man has been a beloved child since he was a child. At school, he is a good student and a class cadre. Junior two participated in the National Olympic Mathematics Competition and won the first prize.
Before 17, he was sent to a university for further study. Fate played a modest joke on him in the summer of the year when he received the college admission notice: when crossing the road, a speeding car mercilessly took his legs and left hand. In the face of this sudden trouble, he was not defeated, and finally taught himself all the courses in the university with amazing perseverance. Later, he founded his own company, became the boss of a private enterprise with tens of millions of yuan of fixed assets, and was elected as the "Top Ten Outstanding Youth" in the city. I went to interview him that day and asked him how he overcame unimaginable pain and achieved today's results.
To my complete surprise, what he wants to thank most is neither his caring parents nor his friends who have always encouraged and supported him. Facing my question, he quickly replied: I want to thank two trees!
The meeting after the car accident was the end of the world for him. He was outstanding since he was a child and had a strong self-esteem. Looking at his mutilated body, he was in great pain. He felt that his life had been ruined and there was nothing worth pursuing in life. He once wanted to commit suicide. Even hearing one or two car horns coming from the distant street in the hospital can cause his irritability and anxiety, and his mood is extremely unstable. In order to distract him and divert his attention, after he was discharged from the hospital, his family specially sent him to his aunt's house in the country to rest.
There, he met two trees that decided the meaning of his life.
My aunt lives in a small village far from the city, quiet and comfortable, even a little backward. He eats, sleeps and eats every day in his aunt's small yard, and spends his time that he thinks is no longer precious day by day, making people more frustrated and lazy. Half a year passed quickly.
One afternoon, menstruation's family went to school in other places, and he was alone at home. Bored, he walked out of the yard in a wheelchair.
In this way, it seems that there is an invisible arrangement, and he meets two trees by chance.
Those are two trees! Fifty or sixty meters away from my aunt's house, there are two strange-looking elms, twisting their limbs like vines, but standing tenaciously. Between the two trees, there is a thick wire seven or eight meters long, and both ends of the wire are deeply embedded in the trunk. No, it is just wrapped in a tree! It is like a long cloth bag tied tightly around the waist with a rope, showing a strange shape with thick ends and thin middle.
Seeing his curious appearance, his neighbor told him that it was for the convenience of drying clothes. Seven or eight years ago, someone pulled a wire between two small elms. After a long time, the trunk grew thicker and thicker, and the part wrapped by wire could not be tied, and it was pulled out with a deep scar, and two small trees were dying. Just when everyone thought that the two elms could not live any longer, they sprouted again after a winter rain the next year, and with the trunk getting thicker and thicker, year after year, they "ate" the wire tightly tied to themselves!
Somehow, his heart was deeply shocked: in the face of violence and bad luck imposed by the outside world, Xiaoshu still knows how to fight, and as a person, there is no reason to give up trying to live! In the face of these two elms, he felt ashamed, and at the same time aroused the unwillingness hidden in his heart-I saw him struggling to prop up the whole body from the wheelchair that he had been sitting for more than half a year with his only right hand, and respectfully bowed to those two ordinary but strong elms!
Soon, he volunteered to return to the city, picked up his long-lost textbooks and confidence, and started a new life of his own.
Listening to him calmly finish the story, I was speechless for a long time.
On the road of life, some things are inevitable, such as fate; Some things cannot be changed, such as love; Some are indelible, such as memory; Some things are hard to let go, such as love … It is better to face it bravely than to bear it passively; It is better to flap your wings and get wet than to stay under the eaves of birds. Instead of being lonely in silence, it is better to break out in struggle ... The harder the road, the greater the obstacles and the more risks. As long as you walk there, life will be more exciting.
The fourth inspirational article read by senior one students today tells the students about Song Lian's Preface to Learning on the Roof, telling them that only when they have lofty aspirations can they be confident, and only when they have gone through hardships can they make great achievements. I really want to send the following article to the children, hoping that the children can understand it.
There are 3000 disciples of Confucius and 72 sages. Yan Hui was deeply loved by Confucius. He gave Yan Hui the highest evaluation: "Good return!" Why did Confucius value Yan Hui so much? Because Yan Hui "only eats once, only drinks once. In a mean alley, people are worried if they can't bear it, and they will not change their fun when they return. " From these words, we can know that among Confucius' students, Yan Hui's family background is the worst, and the student with the worst family background is the one who studies best. After Yan Hui's death, Confucius painfully asserted that there would be no such excellent students (Ji Kangzi asked, "Who is a studious disciple?" Confucius said, "Those who have Yan Hui are eager to learn, but it's a pity that it won't be long. Also died today. " )
Why did Yan Hui get such a high evaluation from Confucius? Except for Yan Hui's diligent study, his environment is a harsh environment that others can't stand. Look at his life. What was this "food" like at that time? "Food" is an ancient utensil for holding food, using bamboo or bamboo. "Piao Yin" means that there are no drinks such as soup and wine in Yan Hui's diet, that is, there is "rice" in the water with a gourd ladle. Yan Hui can't live this life with other people (people are miserable), while Yan Hui is not only living, but also happy (never changing his pleasure). The word "unchanged" here not only shows that Yan Hui has always been so happy, but also shows this kind of life.
Although Yan Hui is unfortunately short-lived, his high-level learning happiness is worthy of being inherited by future generations, and his learning attitude is an example for people to learn (those who have Yan Hui are eager to learn, don't get angry and don't forget). Therefore, when Confucius commented on Yan Hui, he used the phrase "Xian is also good!" Later, I said, "Xian Zai Hui also!" For the death of Yan Hui, Confucius sighed to heaven: "Alas! The day has passed! The sky is lost! " God, how did you take such a good student away from me! )。 We should not only learn from Yan Hui's spirit of hard work and indifference to the harsh environment, but also learn from his spirit of "being poor is immune to the world, while helping the world". Although Yan Hui is poor, he retains a noble spirit, seeking spiritual happiness in suffering and sucking the "chicken soup" of his soul! "People who are happy enough in it don't know whether the oral service is not like people" (because they are happy enough in their hearts, they don't know that food and clothing are not as good as people).