Having made several very important medical breakthroughs (突破), I was once asked why I was able to be so much more1than the average person. What 2 me so far apart from others?
Well, that all came from a(n)3with my mother when I was two. I had been trying to 4a bottle of milk from the fridge when I lost my 5on the slippery bottle and it 6, spilling (洒) all over the kitchen floor. When my mother came in, 7 shouting at me, giving me a lecture, or8me, she said, "Robert, what a great and9 mess you have made! Well, the 10 has already been done. Would you like to play in the milk before we11it up?" I did.
Several minutes later, she said, "You know, Robert, whenever you make a12like this, in the end you have to clean it up and 13everything to its proper order. How would you like to do that? A towel or a mop?"
After the cleaning up, she added, "What we have here is a(n)14 experiment in how to15carry a big milk bottle. Let's try again and see if you can 16a way to carry it without 17it. Then I learned that if I grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, I could 18 it.
It was at that moment that I knew I didn't need to be afraid to make 19Even if the experiment "doesn't work'", we usually learn something20from it.
