Success or failure is only 0.5mm away

 　　 At the entrance of No. 109 Court Road in Boston, the United States, there is a bronze plaque that reads: "On June 2, 1875, the telephone was born here."

　　 This plaque tells the world: the world's first telephone was invented by the United States Invented by Alexander Bell and his assistant Watson.

　　 On February 14, 1876, Bell filed a patent for the invention of the telephone. On March 6 of the same year, the patent application for the telephone was approved by the US government, and the patent number was 174465.

　　 After Bell applied for a patent for the invention of the telephone, German science teacher and inventor Johann Philip Rice sued Bell to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying that the invention of the telephone should belong to him. Because as early as 1860, he had invented the "telephone device", which could transmit sound to 100 meters away, and Rice also exhibited his "telephone device" at various academic conferences.

　　 Bell said frankly that he did learn from Rice's "telephone device" when he invented the telephone, and found its shortcomings. So, he changed all the intermittent currents in the Rice device to continuous direct current, thus solving the problem of short and variable speech. Then, he turned a screw on the Rice device forward by half a turn, or just 0.5mm, so that the sound could be transmitted to each other.

　　 The findings of the Supreme Court of the United States showed that Rice had indeed successfully developed a "telephone device" before Bell, but it had some shortcomings. . Therefore, the Supreme Court ruled: Rice lost the case, and the invention of the telephone still belongs to Bell.

　　 Because Bell borrowed Rice's "telephone device", he proposed to share the patent of the telephone with Rice, but Rice firmly rejected Bell's kindness, he said with emotion: "I am 0.5 mm away from success. If I fail, I will remember this lesson for the rest of my life."

　　 Missing a tiny bit is a thousand miles away. Bell stood out among the inventors and became the only "father of the telephone", but Rice missed this far-reaching great invention. This major success and failure, in a certain sense, is actually only a difference of 0.5 mm.

　　 When playing chess, those who see good chess are often outsiders. Occasionally pointing out one or two points can often make the insiders turn from defeat to victory. The insiders are in the bureau, they should see it more clearly, why is it that the outsiders can see it more clearly?

　　 The insiders who play chess, because there are wins and losses and gains and losses, will be influenced and interfered by these wins and losses and gains and losses. Outsiders who do not play chess can also see the chess game with a clear view because they are not affected and hindered by wins and losses and gains and losses.

　　 The person who sees the overall situation is not an insider, but an outsider. Just as a person can only see the whole forest when he stands outside the forest, while a person who stands in the forest "sees only the trees but not the forest".

　　 Life is a game. Most of them are confused when they are inside, and most of them are sober when they are outside. The world is a bureau. If you are in a complicated mood, you are inside the bureau, and if you want to see the world, the world is rolling and you are confused; if you have a peaceful mind, you are outside the bureau.