Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success 1 fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the 2 in our lives.
When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no way of knowing that his life was to change completely. The class experiment that day was to 3 how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling(冒泡) to the surface. 4 the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat 5 held something more volatile(易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the container 6 leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.
When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents attempted to find a way to deal with the catastrophe that had 7 their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as catastrophic. He learned braille(盲文) quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became a(n) 8 public speaker.
Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from 9 for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to 10 his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue 11 it could be fixed so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the 12 Wilson made to preventing the preventable.
Wilson received several international 13 for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a 14. He proved that it's not what happens to us that 15 our lives—it's what we make of what happens.
