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Sell ​​the toilet to the world

The action depends on the timing, and the ship is going to rise.

The 33-year-old Englishman Luke Barkley is a travel enthusiast. His greatest wish is to step on every corner of the world with his feet and then use his camera to record the fascinating scenery around the world.

So every time he went, he tried to take the most beautiful photos with the best angle. However, when he sent the photos to the Internet, he found that his photos did not have much gratifying new ideas. They could only say that they were picking up their teeth.

This made him very depressed. "How can I find the unconventional subject matter?" Barkley's meditation has no results.

By chance, he was in a hurry in the Parisian sea, so he rushed into the toilet. Barkley has a habit of holding a book while spending time in the toilet. In a short while, his eyes were a little sore. He looked up subconsciously and happened to look into the distance through a small glass window. At this time, he was shocked: the sunset was shining, the blue sea was undulating, and it was spectacular.

Barkley came to the spirit, thinking, I have been to countless places, why can't I find the best toilet in the scenery? This is definitely a good subject that is not lost!

Since then, Barkley has started his unusual world tour. Every time I go to a country's scenic area, the first place he goes is the toilet, which compares the different cultures of each country.

Of course, his perspective is becoming more and more unique. For example, the open-air toilet at the Antarctic Seashore has only a simple toilet and even no wall, but it is just like this. Visitors can touch the ice and snow around them at the same time, and enjoy the magnificent scenery of floating icebergs on the sea not far away. . On the banks of the Zambezi River in Africa, the toilets are set next to the waters where the wild elephants bathe. When you come to the wild toilets in India, the sightlessness of the surrounding area will give you the illusion of being on the surface of the moon.

Over time, Barkley had a special liking for the subject of toilets. He traveled to many countries to find the best toilets in the landscape. Later, he integrated these observations and landscapes into a book, and wrote a new book called "Searching for the Top Toilet", recording the most magnificent scenery with words and pictures.

What is surprising is that the ones that have been fortunate enough to be included in the book are not the luxuriously decorated toilets. They are mostly very simple and have a natural view with the surrounding scenery.

Unexpectedly, after the publication of the new book, it became a best-selling book in the tourism industry, and it was favored by friends. In just a few days, the sales volume reached 100,000.

Soon, Barkley became a red man in the eyes of his best friend. He could receive an email from his friend every three and five times, telling him where he could find an unusual toilet. He has become a spokesperson for the toilet.

Barkley said in an interview that in fact, I think that the toilets located in the famous scenic spots should not be just a convenient place for people. They should be equipped with large windows so that visitors can enjoy the surroundings while going to the toilet. Beautiful scenery, isn't it the best of both worlds?

"Selling the toilet to the world" seems like an incredible thing. In the eyes of the discoverer, it has become a kind of wisdom and a kind of wealth. In life, as long as we have the heart, we can always find an unexpected path to the other side of success.

Be a quick person

Hu Min, always wear a gray or light yellow shirt, tight collar, lectures, and intoxication. In 1995, when he was the deputy director of the English Department at the School of International Relations, he began to go to the New Oriental "guest". It is the most boring and unpleasant reading comprehension, but it is what many students like. In 1999, he was sent to the University of Portsmouth as a senior visiting scholar. From 1995 to 1999, he founded the popular training programs such as the 4th and 6th grades and the postgraduate training. From the grassroots teachers, he has achieved middle and high level, and has his own department. The training materials are continuous.

In 1999, Hu Min’s first salary in New Oriental was dramatic. During the start-up period, the salary of all teachers in the New Oriental School was sent by the principal Yu Minhong, some in the office, and some were sent to the home. Calling home is a special treatment, indicating that he has special expectations for the teacher. On that day, the principal, Yu Minhong, invited him to his home and pointed to the 140-square-meter house in the community and said to him: "You can definitely have this day. My house is nothing."

What really made Hu Min famous in the "river and lake" was an "IELTS storm" in 1999. In August 1999, he used his summer vacation to go to the UK at his own expense. He visited the British Council and the Cambridge University Examination Board. He visited the alumni who studied abroad during the year and inspected the development prospects of IELTS. His suggestions made Hu Min confident. "The TOEFL is an empire!" Sean Hyde, president of the British Council IELTS, gave him a great deal. "No, IELTS will rise and become a dazzling star!" Hu Min is already building another "empire." While in the UK, he traveled through almost all relevant bookstores and purchased a large number of IELTS test books. When he left the UK, he had mastered the core resources of IELTS.

In the winter of 1999, the first thing Hu Min returned to Beijing was to organize a team of experts to write IELTS textbooks. At that time, he held undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the School of International Relations, and also held the four or six postgraduate entrance examinations, TOEFL and IELTS projects of New Oriental School. It happened that during that time, I had to send a meal to my wife who was hospitalized. I had to send my mother-in-law to the Xiyuan Hospital for drug testing. I had to send my child to Peking University. In five months, he was writing a textbook while taking a graduate student at the school. He constantly explored, independently researched and developed, and pioneered the IELTS system. In 2000 he officially came to New Oriental. In January 2001, the textbook was officially published. In February, Hu Min began to promote IELTS on the national tour. Wherever he went, he was like a superstar. Soon, IELTS was popular all over the country, and the book market was in short supply. He did not stop for a moment, and continued to lead the research and development team to write the second generation of IELTS textbooks day and night. In 2002, IELTS students doubled from the previous year to 90,000.

In 2004, Hu Min gave up the life of a comfortable professor and founded Beijing New Waterway School. He successfully built the “China IELTS Dream Team” and became the pioneer and leader of China's IELTS training industrialization. Later, he continued to upgrade the textbooks and successively launched the third, fourth and fifth generation series of textbooks. The IELTS score is recognized by more and more countries including 900 universities in the United States. In 2007, the number of Chinese IELTS exams and the TOEFL test were evenly matched. The copyright of “Hu Ya Si” has been purchased by more and more countries and regions, and it has set off the most powerful storm in English history in China. The English training materials and monographs that he took the lead in developing and owning intellectual property rights have become more than one hundred. China's English training industry has established the largest number of English test experts and famous scholars, and is called "the father of Chinese IELTS" by the media.

One thing, can't be perfect, others may excuse themselves, but Hu Min would rather "harden the will with steel." Hu Minchang said: "It is my character to be a person who is going up quickly. I have always believed in a harvest and I believe that fate will eventually be in my own hands. Only by perseverance will I finally succeed!"