Do you have the right to sleep today?

On a summer night in 1918, David Ben Gurion sat in the study and held a book to read. His wife Paula walked in gently, put on a coat for him, and said softly: "Dear, time is not early, it should be asleep."

Gurion replied without raising his head: "When I finish reading 50 pages, I am qualified to go to sleep."

Paula persuaded her husband: "You still have important things to do tomorrow, or just go to sleep."

Gurion raised his head and took his wife’s hand and said, "I will go to sleep after watching it for a while."

In order to realize Israel's dream of nation-building, Gurion began to run around at the age of 17, and the goal of reading 50 pages a day was not beaten. Sometimes he is unable to complete the goal due to busy work during the day, he will use the evening to make up. He said: "Reading can enhance your sense of social responsibility and make me stand in a higher and larger angle to see the world." Long-term staying up late makes Gurion's physical condition very poor, and his friends advised him to pay attention to rest. He responded to everyone like this. "Not only do I have to keep reading, but after the founding of the People's Republic, we must also let our children love reading. Only by reading, the Jewish nation can have the wisdom and knowledge for life, and it can turn these knowledge and wisdom into wealth."

On May 14, 1948, Israel announced the founding of the country, and Gurion served as the prime minister. He delivered an impromptu speech: "The great exile of more than two thousand years has made the Jewish people have a great understanding. Only knowledge and wisdom can be revived after the end of the world. Weapons, while reading is the best ammunition depot to supplement this weapon. Therefore, everyone must establish such a consciousness, no day to study, no day to sleep! Everyone has to ask themselves every day , do you have the right to sleep today!"

To this day, the Israelis still remember the self-question question of "the father of the founding father" David Ben Gurion "Do you have the right to sleep today?" Everyone will read as an indispensable thing for themselves. For this reason, Jews who are less than 2% of the world's total population have won 24% of the Nobel Prize.