WORK EVERY WAKING HOUR – Elon Musk (Motivational Video)
when I was young I I I didn’t really
know what I was gonna do we’re not when
I got older people kept asking me and
and but but then eventually I thought
the idea of inventing things would be
would be really cool and the reason I
thought that was because I read a quote
from Odyssey clock which said that a
sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic and and
that’s really true if you think if you
go back say 300 years the things that we
take for granted today would be you
could be burned at the stake for you
know being able to fly and being able to
see over long distances being able to
communicate and having access to all the
world’s information instantly from
almost anywhere in the earth this is the
stuff that that really would be magic
considered magic in times past in fact I
think it actually goes beyond that
because there are many things that we
take for granted today that weren’t even
imagined in times past they weren’t even
in the realm of magic so that it
actually goes beyond that so I thought
well you know if if I can do some of
those things basically if I can advance
technology then that bets like magic and
I would be really cool and the the
I always had sort of a slight
existential crisis because I was trying
to figure out what does it all mean like
what’s the purpose of things and I came
to the conclusion that if we can advance
but there’s this the knowledge of the
world if we can do things that expand
the scope and scale of a consciousness
then we’re better able to ask the right
questions and become more enlightened
and and that’s really the only way
forward I think about what’s what
technology solution is necessary in
order to achieve the particular goal and
then try to make as much progress in
that direction as possible I think the
being a multi-planet species being out
there among the stars is important for
the long-term survival of humanity but
then the part that I find personally
most motivating is that it creates a
sense of adventure and it makes people
excited about the future now if you
consider two futures one where we are
forever confined to earth until
eventually something terrible happens or
another future where we are out there on
many planets maybe even going beyond the
solar system I think that second version
is incredibly exciting and inspiring and
they need to be reasons to get up in the
morning you know life can’t just be
about solving problems otherwise what’s
the point
it’s got to be things that people find
inspiring and make life worth living
when my brother and I were studying our
first company instead of getting an
apartment we just rented us a small
office and we slept on the couch and we
showered at the YMCA and we’re so hot up
we had one computer so the coolest of
the the website was up during the day
and I was coding at night seven days a
week all the time and I so briefly had a
gopher in that period and in order to be
with me she have to sleep in the office
so I work hard like and it mean every
waking hour that’s that’s the the thing
I would I wouldn’t say if you’re
particularly for starting a company
natural human tendency is wishful
thinking so a challenge for
entrepreneurs is to say well what’s the
difference between really believing new
ideals and sticking sticking to them
versus pursuing some unrealistic dream
that doesn’t actually have merit and
it’s it’s that is it that is a really
difficult thing to to tell you can you
tell the difference between those two
things you know so you need to be sort
of very rigorous in your self as health
analysis I think certainly extremely
tenacious and then just work like hell I
mean just have to put in you know 80
hour 80 100 hour weeks every week that
but all those things improve the odds of
success
or how do you think about making a
decision when everyone tells you this is
a crazy idea where do you get the
internal strength to do that all of us
well I’d say I actually think I got you
feel fair quite strongly
so as long as the I just have the
absence of drive I feel it quite
strongly but there were times when
something is important enough you’ve
learned enough that you do it in spite
of fear we should think well I feel fear
about this and therefore I shouldn’t do
it it’s normal to be feel fear
so you just feel it and let the
importance of it anyway
you could just if just accept the
probabilities then that diminishes fear
drive of a rights fear it’s about
believing in the future and thinking
that the future would be better than the
past and I can’t think of anything more
exciting than going out there and being
among the stars
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