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Story 1: The story of Nixon’s defeat by self-confidence.
Nixon is an American president we are very familiar with, but for such a big man, his political future was ruined because of a mistake that lacked self-confidence.
In 1972, Nixon ran for re-election. Due to his outstanding achievements in his first term, most political commentators predicted that Nixon would win with an overwhelming majority.
However, Nixon himself was very unconfident. He could not get over the psychological shadow of his past failures and was extremely worried about another failure. Driven by this subconscious mind, he did something stupid that he would regret for the rest of his life. He assigned his men to sneak into the Watergate Hotel, the headquarters of his opponent, and installed bugs in his office. After the incident, he repeatedly blocked investigations and shirked responsibility, and was forced to resign shortly after his victory in the election. Nixon, who was guaranteed victory, suffered a disastrous defeat due to lack of confidence.
Story 2: The story of Seiji Ozawa who is better than self-confidence.
Seiji Ozawa is a world-famous symphony conductor. In a final competition of a world outstanding conductor competition, he conducted the performance according to the score given by the jury, and keenly discovered the discordant sounds. At first, he thought the band had made a mistake, so he stopped and played again, but it still wasn't right. He thought there was something wrong with the music score. At this time, the composer and the authorities present on the jury insisted that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the score and that he was wrong. Facing a large number of music masters and authorities, he thought again and again, and finally said loudly and resolutely: "No! The score must be wrong!" As soon as he finished speaking, the judges on the judges' bench immediately stood up and applauded warmly. Congratulations to him for winning the competition.
It turns out that this is a "trap" carefully designed by the judges to test whether the conductor can stick to his correct opinions when he discovers errors in the music score and is "denied" by authorities. Although the first two conductors who participated in the final also discovered their mistakes, they were eventually eliminated because they echoed the opinions of the authorities. Seiji Ozawa won the World Conductor Competition because of his confidence.
In response to the pessimism of some industry representatives that they are not suitable for sales, Manager Du used a snowy day to discuss the legendary story of Joe Girard.
Story 3: Let it go and everything is possible: Joe Girard’s inspiration to us!
Joe Girard - the world's Gisney car sales champion, is the greatest salesman in the world. He has been ranked first in the world's Gisney Records for 12 consecutive years. The world car sales record maintained: an average of 6 cars sold per day for 12 consecutive years, and no one has been able to break it so far. Joe Girard is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for selling more than 13,000 cars and setting a sales record. He has been the person who sold the most new cars in the world for 15 consecutive years, with an average of 1,300 cars sold per year for 6 years.
Joe Girard is also the most popular speaker in the world. He has taught his valuable experience to many Fortune 500 corporate elites. Millions of people from all over the world have been moved by his speeches. , inspired by his deeds.
Before the age of thirty-five, Joe Girard was a complete loser. He suffered from a severe stutter. He had changed forty jobs and still achieved nothing. He even worked as a thief and opened a casino. ; However, who could have imagined that a person like this, who was not optimistic about anyone, and who was saddled with debt and almost had no choice but to climb to the top of the world in just three years, and be called "the best in the world" by Guinness World Records? The greatest salesman in the world".
How did he do it? Learning humbly, working hard and persevering, focusing on service and sincere sharing are the four most important keys to success for Joe Girard.
Sales is a career that requires wisdom and strategy.
But in our opinion, confidence and persistence are the most important, because according to the prediction, no one would have expected Joe Girard's subsequent glory!
It can be inferred from this that if you have a better background than Joe Girard, have never stolen anything, and if you do not stutter, then there is no reason for you to be unsuccessful, unless you have no confidence in yourself, unless you really I have never worked hard or struggled!
Story 4: Lincoln's Steps
A little boy about 1 year old was led by his young mother by the hand to the park square, where he had to climb more than a dozen steps. Steps up. The little boy broke away from his mother's hand and climbed up by himself. He climbed up with his chubby little hands, and his mother had no intention of carrying him up. When he climbed two steps, he felt that the steps were very high. He looked back at his mother. She didn't mean to reach out to help him, but her eyes were full of love and encouragement. The little boy looked up again. He gave up the idea of ??letting his mother hold him and climbed up carefully using his hands and feet. It was very difficult for him to climb, his little buttocks were raised so high, his little face was flushed with exhaustion, his baby clothes were stained with dirt, and his little hands were dirty, but he finally climbed up. The young mother then stepped forward, patted the dirt on her son's body, and kissed his red little face.
This little boy was Lincoln who later became the 16th President of the United States. His mother is Nancy Hanks.
Lincoln’s father was a farmer and his family was extremely poor. Lincoln received formal education intermittently, which totaled less than one year. But Lincoln developed the good qualities of loving knowledge, pursuing learning, being kind and upright, and not afraid of hardships since he was a child. He couldn't afford paper and pens, so he used charcoal to write on wooden boards and small sticks to practice calligraphy on the ground. He spent all his time reading, studying, and practicing his speeches. Lincoln was unemployed, worked as a worker, and worked as a lawyer. From the age of 29, he began to run for parliament and president, trying 11 times and failing 9 times. At the age of 51, he finally aspired to the White House and achieved brilliant achievements, and was called "a hero of the world" by Marx. His mother, Nancy, unfortunately died of illness when Lincoln was 9 years old. But there is no doubt that she raised Lincoln with strong and great maternal love, making him brave and determined to move into the future.
It goes without saying that there are countless steps in a person's life - life, study and work. How to face and climb these steps in life? For children, should we hold hands, support them, or hold them? Different parents will have different answers. Obviously, if parents hold and support their children, the children will become dependent and often use their parents as a crutch and find it difficult to stand on their own. If parents carry their children up the stairs and swaddle them in their arms, then the children will become the "brought-up generation", unexperienced, inexperienced in the world, and more difficult to gain a foothold in society. Normally, the children have food to eat, clothes to put out their hands, are picked up and dropped off at school, read with them at night, and even when they are admitted to college, their parents have to work as "nannies". When a child looks for a job after graduating from college, his parents have to go to work to serve as a "job agent"... In this way, it is difficult for the child to become an independent adult and make a difference.
No matter how rich you are, you can't enrich your children. You might as well let your children endure some hardships and have "steps" for them to climb on their own. In this way, the child may be able to "go all in one go" and reach the pinnacle of glory.
The following are all Beethoven:
1. Childhood
Beethoven’s grandfather and father were both court singers. Most of the time, his father was drunk and never cared about the family harmony. He never even cared about whether the family had enough food and clothing. At first, the kind-hearted grandfather could save the family from too much suffering; in turn, his eldest grandson's musical talent also made the old man feel great comfort. But when little Beethoven was only four years old, his grandfather died. Beethoven's father often dragged his son to the keyboard, made him practice hard for many hours, and slapped him every time he made a mistake. Neighbors often heard the little child sobbing to sleep from fatigue and pain. Soon, Pfeifer, a traveling musician with little skill, came to this town and was taken to Beethoven's house. He and the old Beethoven often drank in a tavern outside until midnight, and then went home and dragged little Ludwig out of bed to start class. This class sometimes was not completed until dawn.
Once, in order to allow air circulation and see the scenery outside the window clearly, he deliberately cut off a piece of the window. He was always having troubles with his landlords and was constantly moving. Whenever he was at the height of his creativity, he would pour basin after basin of water over his head to cool it down, until the water soaked into the rooms downstairs - one can only imagine the mood of the landlord and other tenants. ! Sometimes he moved so frequently that he wouldn't even bother putting the legs up on the piano and would just sit on the floor and play it. Since he had to sign a lease specifying the lease term every time he rented a new house, he often paid rent for four apartments at the same time. This is probably the reason why although he earns a lot of money, he never has much savings!
6. Deafness
When he really felt that his ears were getting deafer, he almost despaired. Life seemed not worth living: what could be more unfortunate for a musician than not being able to hear the sweet sound he loved to hear and by which he lived! At first, only a few old friends such as Dr. Wigler and Stephan von Breuning knew about his misfortune. He gave up going to the palaces to hear the cheerful concerts which he loved so much, for he was afraid that people would notice his deafness, thinking that a musician who could not hear could not write good music. No! He thought of all the music he wanted to write, "I want to grab fate by the throat!" Maybe for him, composing music when he was deaf was not as difficult as other musicians. In his view, music is not only the use of charming sounds to arrange various themes or sound patterns, it is also a language that expresses the most profound thoughts.
7. Beethoven and his friends
No musician has so much success and so few happy days in his life as he did. His friends were kind and loyal, but his cursed deafness separated him from them. Even his hearing aids tended to fail him, so his only way to stay in touch with them was the "conversation pad" and pencil he always carried with him. He saw them talking to each other and thought they were always talking about him, speaking ill of him, and plotting against him. One day he wrote: "Never show your face to me again! You are a mean dog, a dishonest fellow!" The next day, when he found that his suspicions were wrong and his friends were sincere At that time, he wrote another note: "Dear friend, you are an honest man, and you are right. I understand now. So come to me this afternoon and receive your Beethoven love." And. His friends--and what good people they were--always forgave his rough quarrels and stayed with him to the end. His home life was miserable from beginning to end: he never married. When he first arrived in Vienna, he proposed to Magdalene Willman, a singer from his own hometown, but she refused because Beethoven was "too ugly." Since then, he has fallen in love with several aristocratic women - lovely women with lovely names - and he confided in them with music, but they accepted his music and rejected his love!
[Master Style]
1. Eroica Symphony
Beethoven’s heart was filled with the ideals of freedom, equality and fraternity. He was a French asset in 1789 An ardent supporter of class revolution. In 1798, General Bernadotte (1763-1844) served as the French ambassador to Vienna. Beethoven often visited his home and had close contacts with the people around him. In 1802, at the suggestion of Bernadotte, Beethoven began to write the "Third Symphony" dedicated to Napoleon. In his mind, Napoleon was a hero who destroyed the autocratic system and realized his ideals and revolution. In 1804, Beethoven completed the "Third Symphony". Just as he was preparing to dedicate it to Napoleon, news of Napoleon's proclaimed emperor reached Vienna. When Beethoven learned the news from his student Liss (1784-1838), he angrily shouted: "He is just an ordinary person. Now he also wants to trample on human rights to fulfill his personal ambitions."
He will ride on everyone's head and become a tyrant! "As he spoke, he walked to the table, tore up the dedication to Napoleon, threw it on the floor, and did not allow others to pick it up. After many days, Beethoven's anger gradually subsided, and he allowed this work to be made public. In December 1804, this symphony was performed for the first time at the court of Prince Robkowitz in Vienna. The first public performance at the Vienna Theater in April 1805 was conducted by Beethoven himself. It reads: "A new grand symphony in D-sharp major, composed by Mr. Ludwig van Beethoven, dedicated to His Royal Highness Prince Robkowitz. "The strange thing is that Beethoven did not say it was in E-flat major, but said it was in D-sharp major. When the score was published in October 1806, the title page printed: Eroica Symphony was written in memory of a great man. From then on, The "Third Symphony" is called the "Heroic Symphony"
2. Symphony of Destiny
Beethoven's "Symphony in C Minor" (Opus 67) begins. The four notes are strong and heavy, like the sound of destiny knocking on the door, so this work is called "Symphony of Destiny". Beethoven wrote it to him in November 1808. In a letter from his friend Wegler (1765-1848), he already said: "I want to block the throat of fate, and it will never completely overwhelm me! "The sound of destiny knocking on the door" has already appeared in the third movement of "Piano Sonata in C minor" (Op. 10-1) composed in 1798, and later appeared in the "String Quartet in D major" (Op. 18-3) ) The third movement, the first movement of "Passionate Sonata" (Op. 57), the third "Leonora" Overture (Op. 72), "String Quartet in E flat major" (Op. 74) and a series of other It can be seen that defeating fate through struggle is Beethoven's consistent creative thought. The passion for struggle expressed in "Symphony of Destiny" is very contagious. During the "Symphony of Destiny", he was so frightened that he had to leave the table. An old guard of Napoleon couldn't help but jump up and shout: "This is the Emperor!" "Berlioz regarded the thrilling struggle scene in "Symphony of Destiny" as "Othello's terrible rage when he listened to Iago's slander and mistakenly believed that Desdemona was having an affair with someone. "Schumann believes: "Although you hear this symphony often, it always has an unchanging power on you - just like the phenomena in nature, although they occur from time to time, always scare people. "In May and June of 1830, Mendelssohn stayed in Weimar for two weeks, met with Goethe for the last time, and played for him famous works of ancient and modern times on the piano. Goethe listened to the first part of "Symphony of Destiny". He was so excited after the movement that he said: "This is magnificent and thrilling, and it will almost shake the house down. I don’t know what will happen if many people play together. "In March 1841, Engels listened to the performance of "Symphony of Destiny". He praised this work in a letter to his sister and said: "If you don't know this wonderful thing, then you have heard nothing in your life. " He said that in the first movement he heard "the complete despair of sorrow, that melancholy pain"; in the second movement he heard "the tender melancholy of love"; and in the third, The "powerful, youthful, free joy expressed in the trumpet" in the fourth movement is so inspiring. Engels revealed the essence of "Symphony of Destiny" in just a few words.
3. The legend of "Moonlight"
"More than a hundred years ago, there was a musician named Beethoven in Germany. He composed many famous songs. There is a famous piano piece called "Moonlight". The legend goes like this: One autumn, Beethoven traveled to various places to perform and came to a small town by the Rhine River. One night, while walking on a quiet path, he heard the intermittent sound of a piano coming from a hut, playing his own music. Beethoven approached the hut, the sound of the piano suddenly stopped, and someone was talking in the house.
One girl said: 'How difficult this piece is to play! I've only heard others play it a few times, but I can't remember how to play it. It would be great if I could hear how Beethoven played it himself! ’ One man said, ‘Yes, but the concert tickets are too expensive and we are too poor. ’ The girl quickly said: ‘Brother, don’t be sad, I just said it casually. ’ When Beethoven heard this, he opened the door and walked in gently. There was a candle burning in the hut, and under the weak candlelight, the man was making leather shoes. There was an old piano in front of the window, and sitting in front of it was a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old. She had a pretty face, but she was blind. When the shoemaker saw a stranger coming in, he stood up and asked, "Sir, who are you looking for?" Did you go to the wrong door? ’ Beethoven said: ‘No, I’m here to play a piece of music for this girl. ’ The girl quickly stood up and gave up her seat. Beethoven sat in front of the piano and played the piece that the blind girl had just played. The blind girl listened with rapt attention. After the song was over, she said excitedly: 'How skillfully you play! What deep feelings! You, are you Mr. Beethoven? ’ Beethoven didn’t answer. He asked the blind girl: ‘Do you like to hear it? Let me play you another song. ’ A gust of wind blew out the candle. The moonlight shines through the window, and everything in the hut seems to be covered with silver gauze. Beethoven looked at the poor brother and sister standing beside him, and pressed the keys under the quiet moonlight. The shoemaker listened quietly. He seemed to be facing the sea, and the moon was rising from where the water and the sky met. The sparkling sea surface was filled with silver light for a while. The moon rises higher and higher, passing through wisps of veil-like clouds. Suddenly, the wind blew on the sea and huge waves rolled up. The waves illuminated by the moon were shining brightly towards the shore one after another... The shoemaker looked at his sister, the moonlight was shining on her peaceful face and her wide-open eyes. She seemed to see it too, seeing a scene she had never seen before, the rough sea illuminated by the moonlight. The brother and sister were intoxicated by the beautiful sound of the piano. When they woke up, Beethoven had already left the hut. He rushed back to the inn and spent the whole night recording the "Moonlight Song" he had just improvised. "This is an article in the seventh volume of Chinese primary school textbooks in my country. It tells the story of Beethoven playing "Moonlight" for a blind girl. This is indeed a beautiful legend. Beethoven's piece (Operation 27-2 ——"Piano Sonata in C minor") describes the moonlight on the sea, which originated from the German music critic Reierstab (1799-1860) and the Russian pianist Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894). I am very opposed to using "moonlight" to explain this piece. He said: "Moonlight in musical description should be thoughtful, contemplative, quiet, in short, a soft and bright mood. The first movement of "#c Minor Sonata" is completely tragic from the first note to the last note (using the minor key to suggest it), a sky full of clouds, and a gloomy mood. The final movement is violent and passionate, expressing exactly the opposite of the gentle bright moon. Only the short second movement can be said to be a moment of moonlight. "In Germany, some people also call this song the "Garden Pavilion" sonata. A garden pavilion is a pavilion built under the shade of trees. Obviously, this title is also inaccurate for this sonata. It seems that the decisiveness expressed in this song It is not a clear landscape painting, but an inner gloomy mood. The author of "Beethoven's Biography" Thee (1817-1897) said that the first movement is "a girl praying for her sick father", which is better than anything else. "Moonlight" and "Garden Pavilion" are suitable for Beethoven. This piece was composed in 1801, when he was in love with Giulifata Guicciardi (1784-1856), and this piece is dedicated to her that year. Beethoven mentioned her in a letter to Wegler on November 16: “She loves me and I love her. "But by the beginning of 1802, she had fallen in love with Count Robert Hallenberg and married him in 1803. Romain Rolland connected this song with Beethoven's lovelorn, saying, "The illusion can be maintained. Soon the sonata contained more pain and grief than love. Roland interpreted the first movement as melancholy, lamentation and crying. Russian musicologist Olibishev (1794-1858) believed that the first movement was the "deep sorrow" of lost love, like "dying fire".
But in 1801, Beethoven and Guicciardi were passionately in love. To say that this work is about the pain of broken love may not be consistent with the facts. Regarding the explanation of this work, perhaps the views of Russian art critic Stasov (1824-1906) are more reasonable. After recalling listening to Liszt's performance in Petersburg, he believed that this sonata was a complete tragedy. The first movement is a wistful tenderness and a mental state sometimes full of dark premonitions. He also had a similar impression when listening to Anton Rubinstein's performance: "...from far away, far away, as if a quiet voice suddenly rose from the depths of the invisible soul.
Some of the sounds are melancholy, full of infinite melancholy; others are pensive, with a flood of memories and dark omens..." "#C Minor Sonata" is particularly famous for its title and legend of "Moonlight". Beethoven once said: "People often talk about the "#C Minor Sonata", but I have written better things than this, such as the "#F Major Sonata" (Op. 78)." It can be seen that Beethoven I am not very satisfied with "Moonlight Song".
4. Passionate Sonata
Schindler once asked Beethoven about "Sonata in D minor" (Op. 31-2) and "Sonata in F minor" (Op. 57) When asked about the content, Beethoven's reply was: "Please read Shakespeare's "The Tempest"." Therefore, the former was called "The Tempest Sonata", while the latter was added by the Hamburg music publisher Krantz (1789-1870). "Passionate Sonata" title. (Another theory is that the title "Passionate" was added by the German pianist, violinist, composer and conductor Reinecke (1824-1910), which seems to be unfounded.) The title "Passionate" does not have the same meaning as Bedo. Fen's approval, but it is quite appropriate for this heroic and majestic work. Lenin, the mentor of the proletarian revolution, once heard the Russian composer and conductor Doblovin (1894-1953) perform this sonata in Moscow and said: "I don't know anything better than the "Appassionata Sonata". I would like to listen to it every day. This is wonderful, unprecedented music. I always think with perhaps childish boast: What miracles can people create!" Paris during the Franco-Prussian War on October 30, 1870. It had been surrounded by Prussian troops for more than three months. In the headquarters of Prussian King William in Versailles, Iron Prime Minister Bismarck was negotiating the terms of the armistice with Thiers, the head of the French bourgeois government. That evening, Gertel, who had served as the German ambassador to Italy, played the "Passionate Sonata" for Bismarck on a dilapidated piano owned by Verhan. After listening to the last movement, Bismarck said: "This is the howl of the struggle of an entire generation." He understood Beethoven's "enthusiasm" from the standpoint of a bloodthirsty careerist. He once said: "If I can listen to this piece of music often, my courage will not be exhausted" because "Beethoven is the most suitable for my nerves." Beethoven said on June 29, 1801: "My art is used to improve the lot of poor people." If Beethoven was known underground and heard that his music was used by Bismarck, he would definitely die without knowing it. .
5. Metronome·Friendship·Canon
Beethoven’s friend Meltzer (1772-1838) is famous for inventing and manufacturing mechanical musical instruments. In the autumn of 1813, Beethoven wrote a war symphony for the universal piano (mechanical orchestra) invented by Meltzer, titled "Wellington's Victory" or "The Battle of Victoria", describing the British war on June 21 of the same year. Scene of Wellington's defeat of Napoleon in the northern Spanish city of Vitoria. Meltzer once created today's universal metronome based on the invention of Winkel (1776-1826). Beethoven was the first to use it and mark the speed of his works according to the number of beats per minute. Beethoven's hearing aid was also made for him by Meltzel around 1810. Once, when Beethoven was sending Meltzel on a trip, he wrote a funny Canon to praise the creator of the metronome. This canon, which symbolizes the friendship between Beethoven and Meltzel, was later selected by Beethoven into his Eighth Symphony (Op. 93) and became the theme of the second movement.
6. The Seventh Symphony on the Ballet Stage Wagner called Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony" (Op. 92) "the ultimate form of dance", "the highest form of dance", "the most wonderful movement of the body according to the ideal form". manifestation”. It is said that he once imagined using dance to perform the Seventh Symphony with Liszt's piano accompaniment. Wagner's ideal was later realized by Russian dance drama director Massin. In 1938, he arranged this symphony into a ballet to express an allegorical storyline - the creation and destruction of the world:
First movement: Creation - guided by the creative spirit Below, the chaotic world became an orderly abode for plants and animals. Men and women appeared, as well as dangerous snakes. Second Movement: Earth - Hatred and rape appear on the earth. A group of men and women mourn the murdered teenager. The third movement: the sky - the gods and goddesses in the sky are indifferent to the turmoil on the earth and still enjoy themselves. The fourth movement: wine and destruction - people indulge in wine and sex. God saw them badly imitating the joys of the upper world, and in anger destroyed the world with fire. In May 1938, this dance drama was performed for the first time in Monte Carlo, Monaco by Basil's Russian Ballet Company.