Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success1fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the2in our lives.
When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no3of knowing that his life was to change4. The class experiment that day was to5how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling (冒泡) to the surface.6, the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat7held something more volatile (易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the, container8leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.
When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents9to find a way to deal with the catastrophe that had10their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as 11He learned braille (盲文) quickly and12continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became a(n)13public speaker.
Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from14, for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue15it could be fixed so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the16Wilson made to preventing the17.
Wilson received several international18for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a19 . He proved that it's not what happens to us that20our lives — it's what we make of what happens.
