Inspirational stories of celebrity frustrations

Those celebrity inspirational stories about setbacks always make us feel something after reading them. So what are the celebrity inspirational stories about setbacks? Let’s take a look. Celebrity's inspirational stories of setbacks: Life is full of twists and turns

He was born in a peasant family in Yitang Town, Linyi City, Shandong Province. In order to get rid of a life of poverty, after graduating from high school, he came to Qingdao to work as a waiter in a Chinese and Western restaurant, with a monthly salary of 800 yuan. When he saw that the hotel chef only worked five or six hours a day and received a salary of 10,000 yuan at the end of the month, he secretly made up his mind to learn cooking skills and become a well-paid chef.

In order to achieve his goal, he would run errands for the chef in the store after get off work, get close to them, and take the opportunity to ask for cooking skills. Soon, he mastered the methods of many dishes, but to his distress, the dishes he made tasted very different from those made by his master. In order to train his sense of taste and smell, he simply bought more than ten kinds of spices such as chili and pepper. He kept smelling and tasting them after get off work, and was often smoked to the point of tears. However, after more than half a year of hard training, not only was it ineffective, but he couldn't even smell some basic spices. Considering that my sense of smell and taste are too dull, no matter how hard I try, there will be no good results. He had no choice but to give up his dream of being a chef and look for opportunities to change careers.

One day in 2003, a customer had a quarrel with the boss because the dish he ordered was very different from the promotional picture on the hotel menu. Afterwards, in order to avoid misunderstandings among customers, the boss asked the chef to make samples of some dishes and put them in the hotel lobby for customers to view and choose. However, these sample dishes are easy to spoil and have to be redone within a few days, which is too expensive. The boss said distressedly: It would be great if there was a fake dish that would not spoil easily and stay fresh!

The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional. He had an idea, I'm not a chef and I can't cook real food. If I can make these fake dishes, I might be able to make a fortune! I just did it. After get off work in the evening, he checked the information for several days. , found that Japan had such fake dishes a few years ago, called "caimo". He also visited many restaurant owners, and most of them expressed their willingness to try, which greatly increased his confidence. In order to master how to make "cai mold", he spent 800 yuan to buy a plate of "cai mold" from Japan by mail. He also took the trouble to ask a professional professor at Qingdao University for advice. After mastering the basic production techniques of "dish model", he resolutely resigned, borrowed 30,000 yuan to buy simulation materials and equipment, and concentrated on making fake dishes.

After all, he has not received professional training. He has to learn and practice repeatedly the carving, engraving, coloring and other craftsmanship required for "dish model". Especially when learning coloring techniques, he would strip naked every night, look in the mirror, apply paint on himself, and master the changes in color under different temperatures. It didn't take long for him to master the coloring technique, but the paint was a chemical substance that made his body itchy and would bleed if he touched it with his hands. After spending a lot of effort and blood on his body, he just relied on the unique tenacity and hard work of a farmer's boy to make a dish of "vegetable mold" that looked just like the real thing in just 3 months.

However, after the "vegetable model" was made, many hotel owners were not interested due to the high price. He had no choice but to put the dish model in a hotel for a free trial for one month. Unexpectedly, a month later, the hotel owner took the initiative to pay him 5,000 yuan and asked to book 10 more dishes. He finally found the "first pot of gold" in his life. At this time, he hired 4 workers, started mass production, and let the hotel try it for free. Half a year later, he earned another 200,000 yuan, hired more than 10 employees, added 10 sets of equipment, and registered a company in Qingdao. He continued to study and developed theme "dish models" for wedding banquets, birthday banquets, etc. that were needed by the market. At the Canton Fair in March 2007, he signed orders worth 3 million yuan, and only one of them, the "vegetable model," sold for 10,000 yuan. He also developed a Chinese-style "dish mold" for foreigners. At the 2008 Shanghai Food Festival, it was favored by many customers from Southeast Asian countries, and orders came in like snow flakes.

In May 2009, he registered another branch in Guangzhou. Today, he not only has tens of millions of yuan in assets, drives a BMW, lives in a villa worth more than 2 million yuan, but is also married to a beautiful female college student who graduated from Shandong Art Institute.

He is Zhang Yifan, the boss of Qingdao Yifan Food Mold Co., Ltd.

Zhang Yifan once dreamed of becoming a chef with a monthly salary of tens of thousands of yuan, but after his dream was shattered, he did not give up on himself. The "glorious turn" of the millionaire boss. His experience inspires people: if you want to succeed, you must learn to turn. In fact, many things in life often take a turn. Turning is a kind of change and flexibility, and life will be wonderful because of turning. Inspirational stories of famous people's setbacks: Perseverance in poverty

In the seventeenth year of Daoguang's reign (1837), 27-year-old Zeng Guofan went to Beijing to take the imperial examination but failed and had to return home sadly. While passing through Jinling, he accidentally discovered a coveted "History of the Ming Dynasty" in a bookstore. When asked about the price of the book, he was both happy and worried. Fortunately, the money in the bag was equal to the price of the book; unfortunately, after buying "History of the Ming Dynasty", I had no money to go home.

He held the money in his pocket tightly with both hands and hesitated for a long time. Finally, he gritted his teeth and bought the book. While he carefully put the books one by one into the burden, he quietly asked the clerk in the bookstore: "Little brother, is there a pawn shop here?" The clerk pointed diagonally to the opposite side with his hand: "Isn't that?" Zeng Guofan immediately picked up the burden. , walked straight to the pawn shop. After pawning his gown, he went to the dock to take a boat back to Hunan. To his surprise, the money for the boat coincided with the money for the gown.

The boat sailed for three days and three nights. He read "History of the Ming Dynasty" for three days, slept well for three nights, and only ate a few barbecues from the boatman during the trip. When Zeng Guofan, who was hungry, cold and embarrassed, walked into the house carrying a load, his family thought he had been robbed.

In the 20th year of Daoguang's reign (1840), Zeng Guofan served as a reviewer of the Hanlin Academy and compiled the history of the country for the Qing Dynasty. Although he had reached the seventh rank of officialdom at this time and had a salary and salary, there was not much left after excluding borrowings and daily expenses, and his life was very tight.

One day, Emperor Daoguang suddenly visited the Hanlin Academy, and all the ministers immediately fell to their knees. Emperor Daoguang glanced at the daily lesson in front of him and asked casually: Zeng Guofan, what new works do you have?

Zeng Guofan immediately knelt forward and said loudly: "The humble minister Zeng Guofan pays his respects to the emperor." ?

Emperor Daoguang looked at the kneeling Zeng Guofan carefully and saw that he was wearing an old official uniform with two large patches, and his appearance was extremely shabby. Emperor Daoguang suddenly remembered the image of the governor of Zhejiang who had deliberately worn old official uniforms for many years during the Qianlong period in order to gain a reputation for thrift. He was very unhappy and asked, "Zeng Guofan, as a seventh-grade examiner of the Hanlin Academy, what are you doing?" Not only must we learn to behave well in the world, but we must also be respectful to the world. How can you behave properly when you are dressed in such rags?

Zeng Guofan was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, I forgive you." Wei Chen believes that academic research should be the first priority in the review of the Hanlin Academy. If you abandon knowledge and only rely on appearance and clothing to decorate your appearance, the humble minister will be disgraced by the emperor. What's more, Wei Chen doesn't want to borrow money and deliberately pretends to be himself. ?

Emperor Daoguang was very puzzled because he had to borrow money to buy a piece of clothing, so he asked: Zeng Guofan, I’m here to ask you, as a reviewer, can’t you buy it with one year’s salary excluding daily expenses? Do you want to wear a new official uniform?

Zeng Guofan thought for a moment and replied calmly: "After receiving the emperor's grace to review, the minister received thirty-three taels of imperial silver for the annual salary from the treasury that day." Weichen will pay seventy guan for food and lodging in the hotel, thirty guan for changing the seventh-grade official uniform from a commoner's uniform, and one, two or three guan for repairing trousers and boots. In addition to giving the remaining silver to the guild hall, I also donated two taels of silver for incense to the ancestral hall of my ancestors, six taels of silver to honor my grandparents in the high hall, and four taels of honor to my parents. Please see the emperor carefully. ?

The words made Emperor Daoguang amused. He said with a smile: Zeng Guofan, this matter is over. ?

This incident has passed, but new problems have arisen.

One day, Zhao Ji, a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, posted a banquet for officials of the Imperial Academy because his father came to Beijing to visit him. Zeng Guofan received the invitation and was in a dilemma: Shouldn't he go? Zhao Ji was his immediate boss and it would be a disgrace; should he go? He only had 170 copper coins left on him. Not only was his life difficult, but no one took the coins to go. Banquet. He thought about it over and over, but finally didn't go.

Early the next morning, Zeng Guofan was ordered to make a copy of the "Huang Kao". Every time it was handed over to Zhao Ji for review, Zhao would mark it with two words: "Re-transcription." Zeng Guofan spent a whole day transcribing a 5,000-word "Emperor's Examination" before handing it in. It was really miserable.

Before January arrived, Zeng Guofan received another invitation from Jin Zhengbi of Zhan Shifu. He knew that since Zhao Yi did not attend the banquet, Master Jin could not attend the banquet. Favoring one over the other is a taboo for officials to get along with each other. In addition, he was worried that he would receive similar invitations in the future, so he took up a pen and wrote a notice: Zeng Guofan was born in poverty, there was no silver in the box, he was a seventh-grade minor official, and his salary was limited. From now on, I will not participate in any official entertainment events in the capital. Forgive me. ?Then, he posted the notice on the pillar of the hall.

It didn’t take long for Zeng Guofan to be criticized by the imperial censor because of his confusion and perfunctory performance. He was dismissed by Daoguang and sent to the Hanlin Academy to review his shortcomings. In other words, he has no actual errands and no salary. Not only that, colleagues and friends hid far away when they saw him, which shocked Zeng Guofan.

From this day on, Zeng Guofan bound several notebooks with rough-edged paper and named himself "The Shadow of the Crossing". He decided to write down his thoughts and events every day in a book so that he could remember them clearly. During the period when there is no shortage of points, no salary, no hometown, and no friends, encourage yourself to keep making progress and move forward.