Author: Insight Ciyu
On April 25, the Shenzhou-18 manned spacecraft was successfully launched.
The three post-80s astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong, and Li Guangsu have become the object of heated discussion.
Li Guangsu (left), Ye Guangfu (middle), Li Cong (right)
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Ye Guangfu was born into a poor family in Chengdu, Sichuan, and his father died when he was 4 years old.
The emaciated mother supported the whole family, and she took over the work of planting mulberry saplings in the village alone, fertilizing, watering, hoeing, and taking care of the grass.
Once Ye Guangfu came back from school, he saw his mother carrying a load of water to irrigate the saplings, and his thin body was bent over by the heavy flat burden, and he struggled to move forward up the mountain step by step.
This scene lingered in his heart ever since.
At that time, many children in the village who were in similar conditions to his family were called back to farm work by their families early.
His mother, despite all the hardships, never made him give up studying.
Ye Guangfu is also very sensible, immersed in hard study, and his grades are always among the best.
When it came time to fill in the college entrance examination, Ye Guangfu's score could go to a good university, but he wanted to apply for Changchun Flight Academy.
However, the registration fee of 50 yuan and travel expenses never made him make up his mind.
After his mother knew Ye Guangfu's troubles, she called him to her and said, "Do whatever you want to do, just do it boldly, and I'll figure out how to do it about money." ”
His mother borrowed money from door to door, and after scraping together, Ye Guangfu embarked on the road of pilot.
He progressed step by step from flight cadet to flight team leader and flight instructor, and was rated as a first-class pilot for his excellent flying skills and aerial combat shooting skills.
In 2007, Ye Guangfu signed up for the intensive training and selection of astronauts.
This means that he has to devote more time and energy to the aerospace industry.
Faced with such a situation, his wife Li Xuan said: "You can go boldly and boldly, I will take care of you at home." ”
Because of the strong support of his family, Ye Guangfu soared from a dilapidated small village to the blue sky and cruising in space.
For this reason, Ye Guangfu often said: "Half of my medals belong to my family." ”
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Li Cong was born in a small village in Handan, Hebei Province, to a truck driver father and a temporary worker in a school-run factory.
My father's own education level was not high, but he knew the importance of reading, so he moved the family from the village to the city and rented a room.
Li Cong has been well aware of his parents' hardships since he was a child, and he has never slackened in his studies.
The other friends went out to play, and he worked hard at his desk alone, gnawing on English words and grinding math problems.
During the high school entrance examination, he was admitted to the best middle school in the district, and in his third year of high school, he was admitted to the Air Force Aviation University with his own efforts.
When selecting astronauts, Li Cong took this kind of seriousness to the extreme.
Manned spaceflight is a completely new field, especially the study of aerospace theory, which involves a large number of basic disciplines, is a hard nut to crack.
He would read books and work on questions every night, often before he knew it, and it was past 12 o'clock.
But the results were not satisfactory at the beginning.
He scored 88 points in the first theory test, which is not low just by looking at the score, but the ranking is the bottom.
Li Cong realized that if he wanted to stand out, he should not only pursue a passing grade, but also a perfect score.
He would review after class every time, sort out the knowledge points, he made several thick notes, repeated exercise books, and in the end, the score of each subject could be maintained above 95 points.
In two and a half years, Li Cong completed hundreds of courses in eight categories, passed all the assessments, and got the admission ticket to space.
When Li Cong told his father the news, his father was stunned for most of the day, and only said three words: "I know." ”
My father didn't know how to express this joy in words.
Li Cong said: "As a rural child, it is beyond their family's imagination to be able to get to where they are today. ”
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Li Guangsu was born in Wangmengzhuang Village, Huzhai Town, Pei County.
His WeChat name is "Running Snail".
Why the name?
He thinks that he has ordinary talents, and he must take every step steadily, even if it is a snail, and he must run as hard as he can towards space.
In the first ten years of Li Guangsu's life, like many children, he studied and lived step by step.
When he was in high school with Chinese and science, Li Guangsu chose liberal arts according to his interests and expertise.
If he continues to develop on this trajectory, he may find a clerical job after graduation, then marry a wife and have children, and become an ordinary person who worries about firewood, rice, oil and salt.
But the two awakenings and choices in his life turned the gears of his fate.
The first time, when I was in my third year of high school, the news that the Air Force was recruiting pilots spread throughout the school.
Piloting, a profession that was originally out of reach, is so close at this moment.
He began to think about what the future holds.
Is it to live an ordinary life according to the established line of life?
Or choose what they love and try it bravely?
He resolutely chose the latter, and later, after several rounds of selection, he was officially admitted to the Air Force Aviation University.
The second time is the physical fitness assessment at the time of admission.
When he first entered the school, his horizontal bars and parallel bars score was almost zero, and his sprint and long-distance running scores were far from passing, and if he failed any subject, he could be eliminated.
In such a situation, anyone will be desperate.
Is it to give up and admit that he is not the material of the pilot?
Or do you grit your teeth and move forward, believing that you can succeed?
When such a multiple-choice question was placed in front of him, Li Guangsu once again chose the latter.
He practiced push-ups, pull-ups, and strengthened arm strength exercises every day.
In order to improve his sprinting performance, he got up half an hour early every day, and ran three kilometers with sandbags tied to his legs in the early morning when the water was dripping into ice in the north, before dawn and against the biting cold wind.
Regardless of the scorching heat or severe cold, he never stopped his physical training, and even once ran and suffered heat stroke and fainted in the stadium.
The hard work paid off, and Li Guangsu's various projects have reached excellent.
Later, when participating in the selection of the third batch of astronauts, Li Guangsu encountered another problem.
Li Guangsu is a liberal arts student, and it is very difficult to learn science and engineering courses, especially those obscure formulas and symbols, which are like "books from heaven" to him.
But in Li Guangsu's dictionary of life, there is no word "retreat".
He used the after-school time to break through the small knowledge points one by one, slowly pondered, and after many sleepless nights, he finally conquered the esoteric and difficult knowledge points.
The mountain is high and the road is long, but Li Guangsu has always believed: "People's potential is unlimited, as long as we maintain a firm belief, we will be able to overcome all kinds of difficulties and challenges." ”
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After picking up their stories, I was touched and thought.
The three of them had a lower starting point than many people, had no background and no resources, but they flew out of the mud into space and got rid of their original class.
From them, I saw three opportunities for ordinary people to change their lives.
One of the opportunities: a family change.
Previously, a family of triplets in Hengyang, Hunan Province attracted everyone's attention because they were all admitted to 985 key universities.
The eldest and third have been admitted to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the second has been pre-admitted to Peking University.
The person the three brothers want to thank the most is their mother.
They say that it is rare for a mother to become an education expert for the sake of her children as our mothers.
In order to educate her children well, her mother obtained a teaching certificate.
During the holidays, she takes her children to various libraries, museums, and science and technology museums.
She has also taken her children to some prestigious schools to stimulate their yearning for university.
Because of their mother's encouragement and encouragement, the three children were successfully admitted to the ideal university.
A child is like a sapling, a small flower, and what nutrients parents give determines what they will grow to become.
Writer Huang Jingjie once said: Educate people with a big vision, not raise children with a small vision.
The vision of parents determines whether the child sees the mud on the soles of their feet or the dreams on their heads.
Without the support of his mother and the strong backing of his family, it would be difficult for Ye Guangfu to overcome many obstacles and pursue his dreams.
In fact, every person who is born out of thin air is inseparable from the hard work of the family.
Opportunity 2: Study to change your life.
I have to admit that a person's income level is directly related to his educational level.
How many books you read and what kind of education you have often determine where your life will go.
Sometimes, the hierarchical division between people depends on a diploma.
The height of life is the thickness of the books under your feet.
Reading and changing your destiny is never an empty phrase.
The three astronauts like Ye Guangfu are from ordinary backgrounds, but they all firmly believe in the power of reading, which is the most powerful weapon for them to make a leap in life.
Opportunity 3: Awaken and change your life.
I watched an Argentinian animated short film, Hired Life.
This film, which is only 7 minutes, shows the ordinary people who are in a state of confusion to the fullest.
The protagonist turns off the alarm clock mechanically at 7:15 every morning, and then gets up, washes, rides, and goes to work......
The whole process, he was expressionless and skillful, like a robot executing instructions.
What's even more embarrassing is that all the supplies in the film are "tool people".
Some people work as desks, others hang hangers, and the bald man's job is a mat at the door of the office.
This is very much like the life of many people, like marionettes, life pushes, they move, and they spin in their own one-acre and three-point fields.
They surrendered to fate, feeling rich and fatal, and they were like this for the rest of their lives.
This kind of people are vividly called "awake and asleep people" by the writer Zhou Ling: people who seem to be awake, but in fact their minds and hearts have long been asleep.
So how can that change?
According to Zhou Ling's point of view, it is necessary to carry out cognitive awakening.
If a person wants to make a leap in the level, he has to awaken himself and believe in himself.
For example, Ye Guangfu is unwilling to be trapped in a remote mountain village, and unswervingly pursues his career.
For example, like Li Guangsu, he always believes in himself, believes in what his heart wants, and he will be able to do it.
To put it bluntly, to what extent a person awakens, his life will go to what height.
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Yan Zhen, the author of "The Water of the Waves", was a guest in Dong Yuhui's live broadcast room before, and the two deeply discussed the difficulties of changing their fate.
At the end of the conversation, Dong Yuhui said: I want to tell my friends in front of the camera that although what we say is the truth, please believe that it is not absolute.
It is difficult to change your life, but please remember these eight words: life is self-reliant, and happiness is self-seeking.
You see, the stories of the astronauts' transmutation of fate are just the result of self-study.
Give it a thumbs up and encourage your friends.