? What's even more shocking is that the movie is based on a true story of a black American investment expert, Chris Gardner. Chris Gardner, a black American investment expert. From the nothing ghetto boy to the success of the Wall Street mogul, he interpreted the bottom of the African-American business legend, interpretation of a single father's touching love, this is a fight with fame and fortune, but also a fight with destiny, and he did it, and won the beautiful.
The story of Chris Gardner, who came from a poor family and vowed to make a name for himself
Chris Gardner was born into a family of poor people. Gardner's parents divorced when he was three years old, and his mother took him to marry his stepfather. His stepfather was a brutal man who used to beat Gardner when he drank, and he spent his entire childhood in fear.
His stepfather's brutality was too much for his mother to bear. On a dark and windy night, her mother quietly woke up Gardner, intending to take advantage of his stepfather's sleep, set fire to the house, so that the devilish man was buried in the fire. Unfortunately, the plan fails, the mother is imprisoned, and Gardner is thrown into a shelter by his stepfather.
In the shelter, Gardner is bullied and sexually assaulted for no apparent reason, and in the midst of all the bullying, he vows to change his fate and get out of this terrible situation.
When his mother was released from prison after her sentence, she picked up Gardner from the institution and settled in a leaky house in the ghetto. Despite her unfortunate marriage, her mother planted seeds of hope in Gardner's heart, and she often told him, "You can only rely on yourself, no knight will come to your rescue." A lot of childhood memories are like an old-fashioned movie, fuzzy, mother's words but was Gardner firmly in mind.
Gardner desperately wanted to change his fate with knowledge, but his penniless family could not afford his tuition. He had to work and go to school at the same time. He handed out flyers, served plates in a restaurant ...... due to insufficient rest, once accidentally broke a stack of plates, the boss asked him to pay the price of compensation, he cried his heart out. Because look at the beginning of the school year is approaching, and his tuition has just been enough, but this is another stack of plates to lose money, hope is like a bubble, instantly in front of the eyes burst. In the end, Gardner did not eat anything for three days, lost the plate money and raised the tuition.
With such unshakable faith, Gardner persevered in the ghetto until he graduated from high school, enlisted as a soldier, and later became a medical intern, moving to San Francisco.
The opportunity to pursue his dream was not long in coming, and four years later, when the U.S. healthcare system was reformed, Gardner was laid off from the hospital. Unemployed, Gardner had to consider another way out. Because of the more familiar with the medical equipment, he chose the medical equipment salesman's career. Originally wanted to live a happy life, used all the savings to purchase a therapeutic instrument, which know that the instrument is expensive and unclear image, in the sales process everywhere, a machine are not sold. The long term income is not enough to make ends meet, a family life into a dilemma, his wife gradually produced the idea of leaving him.
Opportunity always comes unknowingly, and one day Gardner met a man in a parking lot who was driving a red sports car in a slow circle, trying to find a parking space. Gardner listened to the powerful hum of the Ferrari, looking at the bright sun in the red dazzling car body, he thought: can have these people are by no means idle. Then he looked at himself, life is hard, and the other age, but the value of the sky capsule difference, he drummed up the courage to decide to ask the man for some advice.
Gardner rushed forward and said, "You can use my parking space, but you have to answer me two questions: what do you do and how do you do it?" The man shrugged his shoulders and burst out laughing, saying, "I'm a stockbroker and I make $80,000 a month.
Gardner's heart snapped at hearing this annual salary, and the man's monthly salary was twice as much as his annual salary! His heart has long been tired of this poor to uncover the pot of life, rather than continue to precarious, it is better to fight, which may be able to change the fate of the only way, his heart a cross, then resolutely resigned, the stockbroker as their life goals.
Life is always full of mischief, a quarrel between husband and wife alarmed the police door mediation, Gardner was chased by the police $ 1200 fine, because of the inability to pay back the money, was sentenced to 10 days in jail, out of prison, but found that his wife rolled away from the home of all the property, and took his son to leave him. All the bad things in the world, in an instant, all fell on him, unemployment, prison, abandoned by his wife, father and son separated ...... his emotions almost to the edge of the collapse, and even thought of light life, in the face of the ensuing bad luck, he became nothing, but his mother's words once again in his ears, encouraging him to get back on his feet.
Fate, however, continued to toy with him, and a few months later, his wife found him, but instead of coming to reconnect, she threw her son at him, which added to the already impoverished life. He lived and slept on the streets with his teething son. The cardboard box and the public **** bathroom were dirty and messy, but they provided shelter from the wind and rain, and this became the shelter for father and son. He went to do any work, mowing, cleaning, transporting garbage ...... working day and night, with a meager income to feed his son, but also to provide for his own heart ideal body.
Never give up, happiness finally came knocking
Eight years, Gardner cast countless resumes, but all stone sinking, the big companies see he did not have any work experience, pressed even the opportunity to interview are not given. The good thing is that fate has finally extended an olive branch to him, and after a thousand turns, Gardner was accepted by a small company and became a trainee stockbroker. Because of his weak foundation, the only way to be on par with others was to make up for his poor performance with hard work. He cherished this job, and actively asked his colleagues for advice when he didn't know what he was doing, and worked late every day. The hard-working people, the sky does not fail. A few months later, he actually did the performance of the company's first, in a large number of young talent to stand out, become the only promotion of a formal staff, opened a new chapter of life.
At the age of 33, Gardner registered the establishment of the "Cana rich" investment economic company, the reverse into the first Wall Street securities black tycoon. 34 years old, his annual salary of one million dollars, the global market rebound, the asset management industry, the crazy development of his company jumped to become the top of the U.S. financial management company. 2006, Gardner sold some of the company's assets, and then sold some of the company's assets, and then sold some of the company's assets.
Gardner, who sold a few more stocks for millions of dollars, rocketed up the ladder.
As Gardner's reputation grew, more and more TV programs invited him to appear as a guest. In the face of the host of the interview, at first he was very excited, talking about his own struggles along the way, but a few programs down, Gardner found that the host's questions are very similar, he almost became a repeater. So, he gradually lost interest and politely declined the invitation for an interview.
But one day, a letter made Gardner change his mind. That afternoon, he was finishing a document, the secretary knocked on the door, respectfully handed up a package. Out of curiosity, Gardner opened the package, to his surprise, the package is a letter and a CD. he put the CD on the table, unfolded the letter to read, the usual day in the shopping mall through the wind and clouds are unchanged Gardner read read suddenly tears. It turns out that the package is a young man named David, he is an orphan, because of his love of music, aspire to become a singer, but his life is poor, the dream is unsustainable. Just as he was wandering, he happened to see a wonderful interview with Gardner on TV, and one of the words gave him great encouragement. Whenever he was frustrated, he would always think of what Gardner said: If you have a dream, you have to go all out to defend it. Those who have accomplished nothing are trying to tell you that you can't be great. If you have a dream, work hard to realize it. In this way, the young man repeatedly defeated, unremitting efforts, from the wandering singer to the bar resident singer to the record company's contracted singer, he step by step to realize their own ideals, out of the life of the first album, eager to be able to give him the strength of Gardner has been to share the joy of this success.
After reading David's thank-you note, Gardner was deep in thought, and realized that the interview that he had bared his soul to was not meaningless, and that maybe his story could be a bright light for those who were crawling along the road in pursuit of their dreams. But, after all, there was only so much time in a talk show to tell the full story of his journey. With a frown on his face, Gardner decided to write an autobiographical book about his personal experiences and titled it When Happiness Comes Knocking to inspire young people to never give up on their dreams, and to always strive to move forward.
Unsurprisingly, the book was sold on the market, and in the face of the book's popularity, one after another, there are film and television companies looking for Gardner to ask for film and television rights. Gardner took into account that some people may not be literate, the movie is more conducive to the wide dissemination, so readily agreed. The movie of the same name, set off a wave of frenzy, soon, Gardner's story is a household name, he has been invited to 26 countries to give speeches, his passionate speeches in the pursuit of dreams on the road to prostrate people with hope and strength.
Chris Gardner, who was given the opportunity by fate to speak on the subject, has been a great success. Gardner, fate gave him a lower starting point than others, but he fought a Jedi comeback story, sang a song full of legendary inspirational song. His happiness is a verb, not born with the noble family, but adhere to their own dreams all the way to fight all the way to defend all the way to grow, life is not stopping, more than struggle, the door of happiness will eventually open.