6. A Challenge for Inspiration
Insight: A positive perspective is like a magnet; it draws good opportunities towards you.
In Paris, France, a cobbler named Simon Braille had a workshop where he made horse saddles. One day, while he was out at work, his three-year-old son Louis entered the workshop to play. He began playing with the tools used to make saddles. As he played, the cobbler’s awl pierced his eye. His eye was severely damaged. The infection spread to the other eye, and Louis lost sight in both eyes.
He got enrolled in a school for blind children in Paris. Brilliant Louis later became a professor at that very institution.
From childhood, Louis loved reading new things. But now he could no longer read. He would ask others to read to him and fulfil his interest in that way. Yet he felt deep concern for other blind people. He resolved, “Whatever I must do, I will do; but I must do something so that every blind person can read.”
He began experimenting. He learned that during war, secret messages were sent in the army by making holes in thick paper with a needle, creating coded signs. Hearing this, Louis turned the challenge of blindness into a stepping stone. He developed the Braille script, made of six dots and forty-three signs, through which visually impaired people around the world can read today.
Resolve: I will not become hopeless in challenges. With positive thought, I will find a path forward.
A challenge becomes a wall or a doorway according to the hand that touches it
6. A Challenge for Inspiration
Insight: A positive perspective is like a magnet; it draws good opportunities towards you.
In Paris, France, a cobbler named Simon Braille had a workshop where he made horse saddles. One day, while he was out at work, his three-year-old son Louis entered the workshop to play. He began playing with the tools used to make saddles. As he played, the cobbler’s awl pierced his eye. His eye was severely damaged. The infection spread to the other eye, and Louis lost sight in both eyes.
He got enrolled in a school for blind children in Paris. Brilliant Louis later became a professor at that very institution.
From childhood, Louis loved reading new things. But now he could no longer read. He would ask others to read to him and fulfil his interest in that way. Yet he felt deep concern for other blind people. He resolved, “Whatever I must do, I will do; but I must do something so that every blind person can read.”
He began experimenting. He learned that during war, secret messages were sent in the army by making holes in thick paper with a needle, creating coded signs. Hearing this, Louis turned the challenge of blindness into a stepping stone. He developed the Braille script, made of six dots and forty-three signs, through which visually impaired people around the world can read today.
Resolve: I will not become hopeless in challenges. With positive thought, I will find a path forward.
A challenge becomes a wall or a doorway according to the hand that touches it
