The ups and downs behind success

"If he had failed and succumbed, he would have been just a lunatic in the eyes of people. Fortunately, he succeeded, so he is a genius."

This sentence in the autobiography of Charles Goodey, the inventor and father of the American rubber industry, clarifies the situation of the world, and it is also a true portrayal of the ups and downs of his life.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the world's rubber industry just started. However, there are already quite a few people who have started to study the production of rubber chemicals, and Goodey, who has passed his age, has also joined the ranks. Very poor, he borrowed a sum of money from a friend and established his own laboratory. For nearly half a year, he has been stuck in the laboratory, working, living and eating in this hut.

Half a year later, all the money lent to him by a friend ran out. Being in charge of borrowing money has to be bumped up everywhere, so the three meals a day have to be changed to two meals a day, or even one meal a day. Every hour of the day, he felt hungry, but he still endured the torment of dizziness and continued the experiment.

One day, Goodey finished a failed experiment and felt that it was really hard to support. However, at this moment, there was not even a piece of brown bread, and there was not a penny in his pocket. So he walked out top-heavy, wanting to beg for some food. Unexpectedly, due to overwork and hunger, he was top-heavy and inattentive, his foot slipped, and a bottle of sulfuric acid on the table hit the ground and shattered.

Goody forgot his hunger, squatted down, and watched the precious liquid quickly spread on the ground with distress. At the moment of near despair, he suddenly discovered that sulfuric acid had soaked a piece of rubber on the site, turning the iron-like piece of rubber into a very soft, filthy black color.

Goodey was overjoyed and burst into tears. A new method of making glue was finally found. However, the successful discovery did not bring good luck to Goodey. With the help of a friend, he used his new technology to produce mail bags, and as a result, the rubber bags all fell to pieces. For this, he did not pay a large sum of money, and the boss of the investment trial production factory viciously mocked him, cursed him, and threw his luggage on the street. After that, he slept on the street. Once, I came across an acquaintance from more than 20 years ago, and came to her shop. From being a clerk to a servant, he did everything. After a few months, he had some savings in his pocket and started his work again. 's test.

Another 4 years have passed. Goody can't remember how many times he has failed and been kicked out of the gate in the past four years. I just remember that in the last days, all the family members, even the books that my son went to school, were used for money. The family barely survived, and he worked hard day and night, and finally developed a practical and reliable method for making rubber: the vulcanized rubber method, which uses high temperature and sulfur to treat rubber, and obtained a patent for it.

Goodey really succeeded, the advent of the vulcanized rubber method, so that the American rubber industry began a decisive turning point. More than half of the early rubber products in the United States were invented by Goodey. His patent fee was as high as 300,000 US dollars, and he became an eye-catching rich man. However, he never does business. From his own experience, he deeply felt the coldness of the business world and the sinisterness of the human heart...

Behind a successful person is a series of ups and downs, and they have all experienced hardships. But as long as you have great willpower, you can stand the test of all kinds of hardships and hardships, you can cultivate your own talent and strategy, and you can still maintain your own pursuit after you have achieved success.

In our life, there will always be a lot of helplessness, especially if a person wants to do something and achieve something, he will encounter ruthless resistance. In fact, it is very simple to want to succeed. If you want to live a good life, you have to pay more than others. It also proves the saying: "You will get something if you pay". There will be no pie in the sky. It has been recorded that the pie fell from the sky, so we should not expect miracles to happen to us.

Success is to pay, when you have ideals, you have to tell yourself, "I must persevere". If you don't insist on escorting you, no matter how good the idea is. It will also make you lose confidence because of setbacks and failures. Difficulties and confusion will always make us overwhelmed and overwhelmed. The fact is that no one can succeed casually. If you want to succeed, you must pay your sweat, tears, and failures, setbacks, and sometimes even our most precious lives. The price of success was huge, but the value he created was far greater than what we paid for.

The easiest thing in the world is perseverance, and the hardest thing is perseverance. As long as we are willing to do it, everyone can do it. We sigh! In this world, there are too few people who persist, so that there are too few and too few successful people.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Since; if we want to make a difference, we must live a happy life, and we must prove ourselves. Only by persevering can we achieve something and succeed. We have to believe the words of the greatest salesman in the world: "As long as life lasts, we must persevere in the end."