[When Lincoln was studying, on an exam, the teacher asked Lincoln, "Would you rather answer one difficult question or two easy questions?"

Lincoln replied with confidence: "Answer a difficult question." ”

Teacher: "Then you answer, where did the eggs come from?"

Lincoln: "Chickens." ”

The teacher asked, "Where did the chickens come from?"

"Teacher, this is already the second question. Lincoln said with a smile. 】

[Once, a woman came to Lincoln, and she said with confidence: "Mr. President, you must give my son the position of colonel.] We should have that right, because my grandfather fought in the Battle of Resington, my uncle was the only one who did not run away in Bradtonsburg, and my father fought in the Battle of Naolins, and my husband died in Mantele, so ......"

Lincoln replied, "Madame, I have great respect for the three generations of your family who have served the country and have contributed enough to the country. Now can you give someone a chance to serve their country?" the woman had nothing to say, so she quietly left. 】

[Once, while Lincoln was giving a speech, a young man suddenly handed him a note. Lincoln opened it and saw that there were only two words on it: "fool".

A dark cloud flashed across Lincoln's face, and then he said calmly: "I have received many anonymous letters, all of which are only in text and not signed, and on this day it is the opposite, just now this gentleman only signed his own name, but forgot to write to me. With that, he continued his speech. 】

[Once, in court, the plaintiff's lawyer spoke first and repeated a simple argument for two hours, so that the audience became impatient. There was a buzz in the audience, and some people actually dozed off.

When it was Lincoln's turn to defend the accused, he was seen walking up to the podium without saying a word. The buzz in the audience was gone, and everyone felt very strange. Lincoln waited a while, first took off his coat, put it on the table, then took a sip of water from his glass, put the glass down again, put it back on, then took off his coat again, drank again, and dared to return five or six times.

The audience in the room was amused by Lincoln's pantomime, and some of them died laughing. Lincoln never said a word, and walked off the podium amid laughter, and his opponent was laughed out. 】

[Lincoln was a non-commissioned officer in the army, and his boss in the unit was a short colonel who was only 4.3 feet tall, but Lincoln was tall. During training, Lincoln often bent down to pay attention to the colonel's orders.

The short colonel didn't like his men to hunch over, so he often corrected Lincoln's posture: "Lincoln, raise your head, raise it higher!"

"Yes, Colonel!" replied Lincoln.

"Tall, keep your head up!" cried the colonel again.

Lincoln couldn't help but ask aggrievedly, "Do I have to keep a high posture all the time?"

"Yes, absolutely. The colonel said.

"Well," said Lincoln with a wry smile, "goodbye, I'll never see you again." ”】

As a young man, Lincoln worked as a farmer, a lumberjack, a clerk, a post clerk, and a land surveyor. To become a lawyer, he often walked 30 miles to a courthouse to hear the lawyers' arguments and see how they argued and gestured. He listened to the loud and impassioned speeches of those politicians and orators, and imitated them.

I listened to the sermons of the traveling evangelists waving their arms and booming in the air, and when I returned, I followed their example and practiced my speeches over and over again in front of the woods and cornfields. The success of the speech led Lincoln to become an eloquent lawyer and eventually enter politics. 】

[A little boy about 1 year old was led by a young mother to the square of the park, and there were more than a dozen steps up the stairs.

But the little boy broke free of his mother's hand, and he wanted to climb up on his own. He climbed up with his chubby little hands, and his mother didn't mean to carry him up.

When he climbed two steps, he felt that the steps were very high, and when he looked back at his mother, she did not mean to reach out to help him, but her eyes were full of love and encouragement.

The little boy looked up again, and he let go of the idea of letting his mother hold him, and climbed up with his hands and feet. He crawled hard, his little buttocks were raised high, his little face was red from exhaustion, his babyrobe was covered with dirt, and his little hands were dirty, but he finally climbed up.

Only then did the young mother come forward and pat the dirt on her son's body and kiss her little red cheek.

That little boy was Lincoln. 】

Lincoln's father was a farmer and his family was extremely poor. Lincoln understood intermittently that the time of formal education added up to less than 1 year. But from an early age, Lincoln developed a love of knowledge, a pursuit of learning, kindness, integrity, and a sense of not being afraid of difficulties. He could not afford paper and pens, so he used charcoal to write on wooden boards and small sticks to practice on the ground. He seized all the time to read and study, and to practice speaking. Lincoln lost his job, worked as a laborer, and worked as a lawyer.

Since the age of 29, he has been running for parliament and president, and has tried 11 times and failed nine times. Now he is 50 years old, and he still hasn't given up and wants to run for president.

It goes without saying that there are countless steps in a person's life – living, studying, and working. How to cope with and climb these steps of life? For children, should they hold hands, hold up, or hold up? Different parents will have different answers.

Obviously, if parents hold and support their children, they will become dependent, and often treat their parents as crutches and find it difficult to stand on their own. If parents carry their children up the steps and put their children in swaddling clothes, then the children will become a "generation that has been brought up", without wind and rain, without seeing the world, and it is more difficult to gain a foothold in society.

Usually, children come to open their mouths for food, stretch out their hands for clothes, pick up and drop off at school, accompany them at night, and even when they are admitted to college, their parents have to follow as "nannies". When a child looks for a job after graduating from college, he has to run to the unit and become a "job agent...... In this way, it is difficult for children to be self-reliant and adults to make great achievements.

No matter how rich you are, you can't be rich children, you might as well let the child suffer a little, and there are "steps" for him to climb by himself. In this way, the child may be able to climb to the top of the glory "in one go". 】

In 1809, on a desolate KFC farm, a baby named Abraham Lincoln was born, the sixteenth president of the United States.

[Lincoln didn't begin to recognize the alphabet until he was fifteen years old, and he had to walk four miles of forest paths to school every morning and evening.

He couldn't afford to buy an arithmetic book, so he borrowed it from someone else, copied it down from a piece of paper the size of a letter, and then sewed it together with twine to make a homemade arithmetic book.

He studied at the school in the form of irregular classes, and the knowledge was "learned little by little". In total, his formal education lasted only about 12 months.

Lincoln's ability to study hard under very difficult circumstances is a sign that Lincoln does not give in to fate, and it is also something we should learn from Lincoln.

When Lincoln was working in the fields, he also carried books with him and read them whenever he had free time. When I eat at noon, I also hold a tortilla in one hand and a book in the other.

After he was nominated for the presidency, he said, "I was able to achieve this small result because of the knowledge I gained from time to time in the future in response to various needs." 」”

"No reefs, no beautiful waves", Lincoln's spirit of not giving in to fate is worth learning from all of us, challenging difficulties together, and creating good results. 】

……

In the newspapers, there were more and more reports about Lincoln.

In the beginning, it was just a matter of which city Lincoln went to give a speech, and gradually it became a small story.

There is no doubt that these short stories are positive stories, and some of the people who hear them tell the story to their children in an attempt to motivate their children to work hard, and some simply begin to take an interest in Lincoln as a person.

As for Uncle Lincoln, who is fifty years old this year, it doesn't matter at all whether he has really done these things or not.

What people now love and love is just the image of Lincoln in newspaper packaging.

Principal Woolsey of Yale School put down the newspaper in his hand, took off the reading glasses hanging on his nose, rubbed the bridge of his nose that was a little painful by his eyes, and said with a smile, "Doug, this kid ......"

He looked at a little story about Lincoln in the newspaper, and remembered the story of the "falling cherry blossom axe" he had told when he first met Doug, the little guy.

He didn't really care about this sentence at the time, but now he realized that this kind of ridiculous-sounding story actually has such a great potential for spreading.

Even the potential for this spread has nothing to do with IQ.

Because,The students in Yale Academy,Whether it's family background or knowledge,It's not bad.。

But even so, Lincoln's little stories in the newspaper still fascinate the students of Yale Academy.

Even, there are many children who are already planning to follow this charismatic "president" of Lincoln.

Right!

That's right!

Although now Lincoln is not yet president!

But these children have already decided that he will definitely become president in this election!

These kids are like that, but what about the others?

As a young man, Principal Woolsey traveled to all the states that were then members of the United States of America.

He knows how vast the United States is, whether it is the scenery or the people, there are countless appearances.

These stories, if they make these people with different experiences, support Lincoln as a person.

That......

The power of the media is terrifying!

In fact, although there was no American newspaper group before, it is not a new thing to use the media to promote the presidential election.

However, in the past, for the propaganda of the presidential candidate, it was just that this person was very good and excellent, so come and elect him.

It's not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people at all, and it doesn't make people feel that this person really deserves to be elected at all.

This time, however, the American newspaper conglomerate's propaganda for Lincoln was different.

All the propaganda is a little story.

Even, from beginning to end, there is no mention of Lincoln's governing philosophy and what he wants to do when he becomes president.

However, the results are unusually good.

In fact, the vast majority of voters don't care what policies their elected president promotes.

Because, no matter what policies are implemented, it has little to do with them.

In this case, they are more concerned about the "person" of the president than about the policies they are promoting.

They care more about what kind of person this person is, whether he is a good person or an evil person.

They like to look at and analyze problems from the perspective of "people".

In this case, the American fraternity group, this time the feedback is purely human feedback.

All the short stories have only one purpose, which is to greatly exaggerate the personal charm of Abraham Lincoln.

Of course, nominally, none of these little stories have anything to do with Lincoln, they are all gossip.

But the more Lincoln debunked the rumors, the more everyone believed them to be true.

On the contrary, if he admits it, many people will think that this is all a made-up story.

"Yes, the world is ours and their young people's. Everyone is the sun, young people are the sun that has just risen, and we are already the sunset that is destined to go out. ”

An old man who looked about the same age as Principal Woolsey sighed.

As Principal Woolsey, the only surviving old friend is the present.

This old man, whose skin was wrinkled and withered like tree bark, also had great influence in the United States.

He, like Woolsey, was an educator.

In the more than 50 years he has been teaching, he has taught too many students.

And now, his students, like those of President Woolsey, are located in all walks of life and in key places in the United States.

Even, now those powerful people who want to get together have to visit this old man in the name of the alumni association.

The old man had a nest that resembled that of President Woolsey to Yale, and he left his nest because he saw two rules for the same game, Monopoly and Boom.

He felt as if he had found the answer to an ultimate question.

He saw such a beautiful egg and wanted to see the hen that laid it.

It's just that the hen that laid this egg in front of her didn't realize that someone had come to see him.

The power of the American newspaper group, which Doug had reorganized, shocked many people.

In particular, Blair, as the day-to-day manager of the American newspaper group, realized for the first time that the industry in his hands actually had such great power.

The stories that Doug wrote and those who were looking for people to write didn't seem like much at first.

However, once these stories entered the field of communication, they were like magic, and they quickly persuaded one person after another.

If......

It's so easy to convince someone to support someone.

Isn't it......

Can I be a president too?

When Blair thought of this, he suddenly felt chills all over his body.

It was not the cold of fear, but the cold of excitement.

The higher the goosebumps, the more excited he is.