V. Elon Musk - Bettering Humanity Despite A Great Chance of Failure
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, was born and raised in South Africa. He has accomplished many things in his life and says that you should always dream big and never give up no matter how many failures you have.
His first rocket exploded on the first launch and he never gave up or cried about it. Instead, he kept chasing his dream regardless of what happened. He wanted to explore space, and maybe take humans to Mars in the future, and keep performing rocket launches until they became successful.
Also, when he got ousted by PayPal in 2000, he did not become depressed but instead went on to bigger and better things. He says that even the best of the best fail. There is …show more content…
Therefore, you should accept probabilities of what could happen and never let them defeat you.
The CEO has the worse problem when creating a company but has to carry out basic operations anyway for success to take place. Elon Musk says that starting a business and creating a company is just like “staring into the abyss and eating glass.” It seems like you will never get there forcing yourself to endure pain and starve. You have to keep going what seems like forever doing what you don't want to do for a long time while tolerating the pain.
Expect to fail. However, how fast are you willing to recognize and fix mistakes?
Self analysis is important to success because you always have to assume you are wrong, no matter how much you think you are right. Stay counterintuitive and always correct your mistakes if you make them.
“Failure is an option” according to Elon Musk, but you can overcome that.
Be adventurous.
He used this philosophy when he was searching for ways to decrease the cost of the spaceship and transport, so he can organize more trips for his SpaceX
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, was born and raised in South Africa. He has accomplished many things in his life and says that you should always dream big and never give up no matter how many failures you have.
His first rocket exploded on the first launch and he never gave up or cried about it. Instead, he kept chasing his dream regardless of what happened. He wanted to explore space, and maybe take humans to Mars in the future, and keep performing rocket launches until they became successful.
Also, when he got ousted by PayPal in 2000, he did not become depressed but instead went on to bigger and better things. He says that even the best of the best fail. There is …show more content…
Therefore, you should accept probabilities of what could happen and never let them defeat you.
The CEO has the worse problem when creating a company but has to carry out basic operations anyway for success to take place. Elon Musk says that starting a business and creating a company is just like “staring into the abyss and eating glass.” It seems like you will never get there forcing yourself to endure pain and starve. You have to keep going what seems like forever doing what you don't want to do for a long time while tolerating the pain.
Expect to fail. However, how fast are you willing to recognize and fix mistakes?
Self analysis is important to success because you always have to assume you are wrong, no matter how much you think you are right. Stay counterintuitive and always correct your mistakes if you make them.
“Failure is an option” according to Elon Musk, but you can overcome that.
Be adventurous.
He used this philosophy when he was searching for ways to decrease the cost of the spaceship and transport, so he can organize more trips for his SpaceX