十几个小故事

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挺有意思的，大家看看吧。

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Alexander Fleming --penicillin

又是一个 古今 8大例，^_^

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   Stories and Story Telling

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Retold by Ellen Dowling, PhD





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Stories to Tell
Who, Me? Nervous?
Which Came First — the Rock or the Hard Place?
Eschew Obfuscation
Those Amazing Amoebas
The Advantages of a Messy Desk
A Close Shave
How To Justify Your Consultant Fee
The Story of the Sad Snake
One in a Million
No Matter Where You Go, There You Are
The Story of the Stressed-Out Rats
Miracle on the Mountain
The Price of Long-windedness  



Who, Me? Nervous?
A classic story concerns the woman who had just been elected president of her local professional society. Just prior to the meeting, at which she would be giving her acceptance speech, she stepped into a room nearby to go over her speech one last time. As she was pacing back and forth working on the word emphasis and gestures, a man came in and, apparently a curious sort, asked her what she was doing. She said, "I'm going to give a speech in a few minutes and I'm practicing for it. "
The man said, "Very interesting. Tell me, do you ever get nervous before you give a speech?"

"Of course not," the woman said.

"Well," he said, "would you tell me what you're doing in the men's room?"

The Point of This Story: It's all right to admit you're nervous. Everybody is! (You can add that Laurence Olivier used to throw up before going on stage, if you think your audience won't mind being grossed out. You can also add that Winston Churchill suffered from stage fright, to such an extent that he actually collapsed while making his first speech in Parliament. He later wrote that being a speaker was a little like being a soldier in battle: "It's all a matter of putting on a brave front.")


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Which Came First —the Rock or the Hard Place?
One night at sea, the ship's captain saw what looked like the lights of another ship heading toward him. He had his signaler blink to the other ship: "Change your course 10 degrees south."
The reply came back: "Change your course 10 degrees north."

The ship's captain answered: "I am a captain. Change your course south."

To which the reply was, "Well, I am a seaman first class. Change your course north."

This infuriated the captain, so he signaled back: "Dammit, I say change your course south. I'm on a battleship!"

To which the reply came back: "And I say change your course north. I'm in a lighthouse."

The Point of This Story: Don't shoot your mouth off before you know all the facts.


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Eschew Obfuscation
There once was a silly inventor who thought he had come up with a terrific discovery: He decided that hydrochloric acid was an excellent remedy for clogged drain pipes. So he wrote a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Standards, describing his discovery.
A Bureaucrat at the Bureau was quite rightly horrified by the Inventor's suggestion, and wrote back the following letter:

The efficacy of hydrochloric acid is indisputable, but the corrosive residue is incompatible with metallic permanence.
When the Inventor read this missive, he couldn't understand a word of it, so he just assumed that the Bureaucrat was agreeing with him. The Inventor wrote another letter to Washington, thanking the Bureaucrat for his support. The Bureaucrat was, of course, dismayed that he had been misinterpreted. So he wrote the Inventor a second letter:

We cannot assume responsibility for the production of toxic residue with hydrochloric acid and suggest alternative procedures.
Once again, the Inventor could not figure out what the Bureaucrat was saying, and assumed agreement. Once again he sent a letter thanking the Bureaucrat for his continued encouragement. The Bureaucrat decided it was time to call a spade a spade, and fired off this last letter:

Don't use hydrochloric acid. It'll eat hell out of pipes.
The Point of This Story: Even bureaucrats can write clearly if they want to.


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Those Amazing Amoebas
Researchers in California placed amoebas in two tanks. In one tank, the temperature, humidity, level of water, and other conditions were constantly adjusted to provide the environment most conducive for proliferation of the amoeba. In another tank, the organisms were alternately subjected to extremes in heat and cold, fluid level, protein, etc.
To the researcher's amazement, the amoebas in the tank meant to induce rapid growth died faster than those subjected to extremes. The researchers theorized that having things too perfect, too set, too comfortable actually causes us to decay and die, while being forced to adapt promotes growth.

The Point of this Story: What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.


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The Advantages of a Messy Desk
You all know the story of how Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, don't you? It happened by accident when a speck of dust landed on an uncovered culture plate. Touring a modern research laboratory some years later, Fleming observed with interest the sterile, dust-free, air-conditioned environment in which the scientists worked. "What a pity you did not have a place like this to work in," said his guide. "Who can tell what you might have discovered in such surroundings!"
"Not penicillin," remarked Fleming with a smile.

The Point of This Story: Stop nagging your teenager to clean up his room!


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A Close Shave
Legend has it that Albert Einstein kept a small sign taped to the bottom of his bathroom mirror. The sign said, "Shave slowly."

Einstein frequently worked on problems while he was sleeping. He'd "tell" his brain to work on the problem, go to sleep, get up the next morning, go to the bathroom, and begin shaving with his straight razor. (These are the days before Bic.) Invariably, the solution to his problem would come to him while he was shaving, hence the need for the sign, "Shave slowly." Without it, Einstein might have slit his own throat!

The Point of this Story: You can "direct" your unconscious mind to solve problems; just don't kill yourself when you come up with the answer.


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How To Justify Your Consultant Fee
Charles Steinmetz, the famous German-American electrical engineer and inventor, was known as the "Electrical Wizard" during his long career at General Electric. After he retired, GE brought him back as a consultant to determine what had caused a breakdown in a complex systems of machines. The cause of the breakdown baffled all GE's experts. Steinmetz spent some time walking around and testing the various parts of the machine complex. Finally, he took out of his pocket a piece of chalk and marked an X on a particular part of one machine. The GE people disassembled the machine, discovering to their amazement that the defect lay precisely where Steinmetz's chalk mark was located.
Some days later Steinmetz sent GE an invoice for $10,000.00. They protested the amount and asked him to itemize it. He sent back an itemized invoice:

Making one chalk mark.................................................$1.00

Knowing where to place it......................................$9,999.00

The Point of This Story: What is knowledge worth?


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The Story of the Sad Snake
A certain wise woman was walking into the outskirts of a village one evening. As she entered the village, she saw a snake biting the villagers. The snake bit everyone who came within range, and, frequently, for no apparent reason, chased the villagers. The wise woman told the snake she felt the snake should stop biting the villagers and making their lives difficult. The snake agreed. A few months later, the wise woman passed through the village again and saw the once beautiful sleek snake covered with mud and lying in a ditch on the side of the road. The snake told the wise woman he was doing what she had suggested. He had stopped biting the villagers. The wise woman looked at the snake and said, "Yes, but I didn't tell you not to hiss."
The Point of This Story: Walk softly but carry a big stick.


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One in a Million
One summer morning, a young boy walking on the beach found thousands upon thousands of star fish beached with the low tide. He stood on the beach and threw one at a time out into the water so they wouldn't die. An old man came up and caustically said, "Kid, what do you think you're doing? You can't possibly get even a fraction of these starfish in the water before they die! What possible difference is all your work going to make?"
"Well, sir," the boy replied as he leaned down, grabbed another starfish, and threw it in, "it makes all the difference in the world to that one."

The Point of This Story: Little things do count.


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No Matter Where You Go, There You Are
A job applicant was being interviewed for a position in an organization similar to this one. The applicant was worried because he hated change, hated the thought of having to adjust to a new job and new experiences. The interviewer, considered by all to be the wisest person in the company, was also concerned about the applicant's attitude. "Do you have any questions?" the interviewer asked the applicant.
"Yes," said the applicant. "How are the other workers in this company?"

"How were they in the last company you worked for?" said the wise old interviewer.

"They were awful," replied the applicant. "I couldn't get along with any of them."

The wise old interviewer replied, "Well, they are the same here."

The following day, another applicant came in for an interview. Once again, the wise old interviewer asked, "And how were the people you worked with in your last company?"

"They were wonderful," the second applicant said. "I hated to leave."

"Well," the wise old interviewer replied, "they are the same here."

The Point of this Story: We see the world not as it is, but as we are.


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The Story of the Stressed-Out Rats
Professor N. R. F. Maier of the University of Michigan performed a series of interesting experiments to induce neuroses in rats. In the study, the rats were trained to jump at one of two doors. If they jumped to the right, they would bump their noses and fall into the net. If they jumped to the left, the door would open and they would get food. The rats learned pretty quickly to always jump to the left.
Then one day the experimenters (we could call them "upper management") decided to change the rules of the game. (This never happens in your company, does it?) That day, when the rats reported for maze work, they suddenly found that they had to jump now at the right door to get food, instead of the left. The rats were a bit upset at first, but they soon got used to the change and learned to always jump to the right. (Is this beginning to sound familiar?)

Then the fiendish bosses decided to make the rules even more capricious and arbitrary. Some days when the rats came to work they had to jump to the right to get food; other days they had to jump to the left. The rats would never know, on any given day, which was the food door. As you can imagine, this caused the rats major distress. In fact, they got so stressed out that soon they refused to jump at all. They just sat there.

So the bosses decided to force the rats to make a choice. They hit them with blasts of air and electric shocks.

This torture so freaked the rats out that they all fell into what is called a "fixated" state, where one repeats the same action over and over, never mind the consequences. In this state, a rat will continuously jump at the left door and bump his nose, even though the right door is open and the food is clearly visible!

When the bosses persisted in forcing the rats to make what appeared to them to be hopeless choices, they eventually went into convulsions, raced around wildly, bumped into things, and finally fell into a coma. In this state, the rats refused to eat, refused to take an interest in anything. They could be rolled up into balls or suspended in the air by their legs. These rats ceased to care what happened to them. They had a "nervous breakdown."

The Point of This Story: Do you feel in control of your own environment? Who's pulling your strings? (And what can you do about it?)


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Miracle on the Mountain
One day a hiker all by himself out in the middle of the wilderness fell off a cliff. Luckily, half way down he grabbed hold of a vine and stopped his fall. Unluckily, he was still hanging 75 feet from the ground, and the vine was beginning to break. Desperate, the man looked up to the heavens and called out, "Is there anyone up there who can help me?"
Incredibly, the clouds parted, a bright light shone down, and a deep voice said, "I am the Lord. I will help you, but first you must trust me and let go of the vine."

The man stared at the clouds, then looked down at the earth 75 feet below. He looked back up and shouted, "Is there anyone else up there who can help me?'

The Point of This Story: Always get a second opinion.


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The Price of Long-windedness
Mark Twain was at a meeting where a speaker was asking for money. Twain decided to donate $100 to the cause. As the speaker droned on, however, Twain decided to reduce it to $50. As the speaker continued, Twain again cut his intended offer down to $10. Finally, the speaker finished and the collection basket was passed around. When it reached Twain, he took a dollar out of the basket.
The Point of This Story: Talking too much can cost you.




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Storytelling
Train with Examples
Do you want some magic words to liven up your training sessions? Here they are: "For example . . . ."

(Individual Exercise)

Pick any point you might want to make in your training session, and select a personal story — or one from the selection below — to illustrate it. Then either write down the story, or (better yet) tell the story to a friend or a group of people. Ask them for feedback. Also good: videotape yourself telling the story, so you can improve your delivery.

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