名人事例difficultiesaslessons.doc

Many legends happened in our society that a child who grew up in a poor family ultimately achieved great success after years of hard work. There is no doubt that compared with those who have better family backgrounds and financial supports, it is more difficult for these people to reach success. However, they always go beyond other peoples expectations. This phenomenon gives rise to a hot debate on whether difficult experiences are valuable lessons. As far as I concern, we can learn a lot from the process of fighting with difficulties. First of all, strong personalities are built when people have to deal with tough situations. When facing a trouble, people can develop many qualities that will lead to future success, the most important one among which is perseverance. Since it is much harder to conquer difficulties than do work in a favorable condition, more efforts are needed to get out of the troublesome situation. Beethoven, for example, lost his hearings in his fifties. Hardly can we imagine that as a musician, he could not work without his ears any more. However, he realized the value of continuous struggle in peoples life, and thus successfully created the 9th Symphony March of Fate which is one of his most famous works. Beethoven’s experience demonstrates that rather than decrease the confidence and morale, difficulties encourage people to stick to their dreams and work even harder. In addition, sometimes difficulties, such as failures, prevent us from engaging in the similar mistakes. New enlightenments are inspired and experiences are gained when we fail something. It might be true that difficulties have negative impact on our mood at first, but later they will bring us remarkable treasures that cannot be found in good situations. For example, Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly one thousand times to find the right material for bulbs. However, after the numerous failures, he achieved success finally and is remembered as the one of greatest inventors i