鼓励与信任让人变得更强大
Some of the greatest success stories of history have followed a word of encouragement or an act of confidence by a loved one or a trusting friend. Had it not been for a confident wife, Sophia, we might not have listed among the great names of literature the name of Nathaniel Hawthorne. When Nathaniel, a heartbroken man, went home to tell his wife that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in a customhouse, she surprised him with an exclamation of joy.\"Now,\" she said triumphantly, \"you can write your book!\"
\"Yes,\" replied the man, with sagging confidence, \"and what shall we live on while I am writing it?\"
To his amazement, she opened a drawer and pulled out a substantial amount of money.
\"Where on earth did you get that?\" he exclaimed.
\"I have always know you were a man of genius,\" she told him. \"I knew that someday you would write a masterpiece. So every week, out of the money you gave me for housekeeping, I saved a little bit. So here is enough to last us for one whole year.\"
From her trust and confidence came one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Scarlet Letter.
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