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Persistence
Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) contracted polio at the age of 39. He fought the disease with tremendous
courage and persistence.
Beethoven nearly lost his hearing in his later life. Despite his deteriorating conditions, he remained
optimistic and composed several masterpieces, including the famous Symphony No.9,
completed three
years before his death.
In 1996, Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer, which had spread to his lungs
and brains. Doctors said he has no more than a 50% chance of survival. He had one testicle removed and
underwent chemotherapy. One year later, declared cancer-free, he returned to cycling to win seven Tour
de France Championships.
Hard work
Balzac worked 15 hours a day for a decade. The result was a collection of more than 90 novels
collectively titled The Human Comedy.
Marie Curie and her husband obtained 1 gram of radium from 8 tons of pitchblende in 7 years.
Luck
Roentgen accidentally discovered a mysterious radiation which can expose films kept in a dark
laboratory. The discovery was the world-famous X-rays, which won him the first Nobel Prize in physics.
Archimedes, great Greek mathematician and engineer, discovered the Floating Body Principle
when
getting into a bathtub full of water.
Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, accidentally discovered that a culture was contaminated by a
fungus, which destroyed all surrounding bacterium. The discovery was the legendary Penicillin.
Creativeness
At the turn of the 20
th
century, American automobile procers believed that cars should be a luxury
only for the rich. Defying the conventional wisdom, Henry Ford proced Model-T, the first affordable
mass-proced car. Over 15 million Model Ts had been sold.
Steve Jobs,
at
the
age
of
21,
assembled
the
first
Apple
computer
in
his
parents’
garage.
Later,
he
designed Mac, the first commercially successful personal computer with a mouse and a graphic interface.
After
returning
to
Apple,
he
designed
and
marketed
wildly
successful
procts,
e.g.
iMac
and
iPod,
which saved the Apple from bankruptcy.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin invented the PageRank technology, which determines a website’s ranking by
the numbers of websites linking to it and their importance. This method was a considerable
improvement on the previous one, which determines a website’s importance simply by counting how
many times the search request appears on it.
Emulation
