Leonardo da Vinci, whose paintings cast a spell over people throughout the world, began to display his unique talent and love of hard work at an early age. At fifteen, he was an avid collector of insect specimens.
His talent, coupled with hard work, blossomed into excellent paintings which earned him a niche in the galaxy of great artists.
Pascal died at 39. But he had already been made immortal by his scientific inventions. Fame first came to him because he invented the calculating machine which relieved people working in offices of the drudgery of calculating. Apart from this, modern computors, airplanes, altimetres, hydraulic devices, we primarily owe to Pascal’s scientific thinking.
A cursory look at Pascal’s life will reveal how he had begun to value hard work in his young days. At 12, he was busy working with mathematical diagrams. In this way, he was trying to discover the principles of geometry. At 16, he wrote an important essay on Conics—a mathematical topic.
Lavoisier, whose discoveries have revolutionised chemistry, was a very diligent student. By the time he was 25, he had won an award for a plan to improve the lighting of the streets of Paris. Besides, he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was able to win these laurels because he learned stern intellectual discipline from his teacher, who was a hard taskmaster.
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