People who have been striving for self-improvement in history.

Helen Keller (1June 27th, 880-1June 60th, 968) is a famous American woman writer, educator, philanthropist and social activist. When 19 months old, he was deprived of sight and hearing because of acute gastric congestion and cerebral congestion. 1887 met Sullivan.

June 1899 was admitted to Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University. 1968 June 1 died at the age of 87, but lived in a dull and silent world for 86 years. During this period, she has finished 14 books. Among them, the most famous ones are: If you give me three days of light, my life story and the story of the stone wall.

She devoted herself to the welfare of the disabled and established many charitable organizations. 1964 won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was selected as one of the "Top Ten American Idols of the 20th Century" by Time magazine the following year.

2.edison

Edison came from humble origins and lived in poverty. His life's "education" is only three months of primary school. Because his teacher was always tongue-tied by his strange questions, he even told his mother that he was a fool and would have no future. ? Although Edison did not receive a good school education, he achieved great success with his personal struggle and extraordinary intelligence, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-reliance.

Self-taught, he stood up from thousands of failures with perseverance, rare enthusiasm and energy, overcame countless difficulties and became an American inventor and entrepreneur. He invented the automatic telegraph and phonograph; Experiment and improve electric lights (incandescent lamps) and telephones. In his life, there was a new invention every 15 days on average, so he was called "the king of inventions".

3. Professor grignard

Professor grignard, a famous chemist, has gone through a tortuous road. As a teenager, due to his well-off family and doting parents, he had no ideals and ambitions and wandered all day. However, the good times did not last long. A few years later, his family was completely bankrupt and penniless. All his former friends left him, and even his girlfriend humiliated him in public.

From then on, he woke up and began to study hard, determined to recover the wasted time. Nine years later, he invented Grignard reagent and won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

4、? Beethoven

Beethoven, the great composer, failed to go to college because of poverty. At the age of seventeen, he suffered from typhoid fever and smallpox. At the age of 26, he was unfortunately deaf and his love was frustrated. In this case, Beethoven vowed to "take life by the throat". In the tenacious struggle against fate, in the career of music creation, the fire of his life grew stronger and stronger. Adversity did not frighten him, but became a magnetic field for him to gain great vitality.

5. franklin roosevelt

In August, franklin roosevelt took his family on vacation in Campobello Island. After putting out a forest fire, he jumped into the cold sea and got polio. The prospect of high fever, pain, numbness and lifelong disability did not make franklin roosevelt give up his ideals and beliefs. He kept exercising and tried to regain his walking and standing ability.

Georgia Hot Springs, which he used to treat diseases, was called "the place where laughter filled the sky". During his illness, franklin roosevelt read many books, including many biographies and historical works, but hardly any works on economics or philosophy.