As the world's richest man, Elon Musk is a toss-up man who is always looking for fun.
When he was at the University of Pennsylvania, he began to think about what things would have an important impact on the future of mankind, and then came to the answer: the Internet, clean energy and space exploration.
The excellent thing is that he has made a lot of moves in these three areas, but he loves life and does not stop here.
A few days ago, he also had an addiction to Tony's teacher on Twitter, and gave himself a new look, attracting a large number of netizens to follow.
He also declared that he wanted to quit his job and become a full-time internet celebrity. But what happens later, we don't know.
However, his grasp of life and career is very admirable, keeping up with or even surpassing the times and going to a leading position. Such an outstanding person, he once gave these five suggestions to young people, very pertinent, let's take a look.
01 You need to work hard
Young people need to work hard, especially for entrepreneurs, you need to work super hard.
Musk was admitted to Stanford University, and unexpectedly, he dropped out of school without two days of school, just like Jobs.
Then he and his brother started their own business, and they didn't have much money and couldn't afford to rent an apartment, but in order to make people think they were doing serious things, they chose to rent a small office, sleep on the couch at night, and take a shower to go to the nearby YMCA bathhouse.
At that time, there was only one computer, the website ran during the day, musk wrote code at night, lived not 996, but 007, and even reached the realm of "opening your eyes to work and closing your eyes to work". As a result, the company grew bigger and grew better.
Work hard, others work 50 hours, and you work 100 hours, the more time you spend, the corresponding year after the growth will be far more than the same level as you.
Why is it that after 1 to 2 years of graduation, the gap between people becomes larger and larger? In fact, in addition to the support of the family, to a large extent, you spend time on a thing, where the focus is, where your growth is.
At the beginning of entering the society, the main thing is to support yourself, let yourself live a better life, that can achieve this goal, the most direct correlation is work, in the case of the same work efficiency per unit of time, appropriate extension of working hours, empower yourself, their own benefits will be more.
02 Be with good people
Work, join a team that allows you to maximize your value, and start a business, attract cattle people in the professional field and let them join your team.
In the early days of Musk's space exploration company SpaceX, he would collect the list of the top aerospace students at the best universities in the United States, and then email one by one, call them, communicate with them, answer their questions, and then sincerely invite each other to join.
In "Iron Man in Silicon Valley", it is mentioned that The first 1,000 employees of Spacex, regardless of the position (even if it is a cleaner), are personally interviewed by Musk.
It can be seen that he attaches importance to and cares about talents. Indeed, in a team, the more elite people, the stronger the understanding ability, the better the communication efficiency, and similarly, the value created is 10 times or more than that of the average team.
Therefore, whether it is a business or a job, we must follow excellent people. Of course, in real life, we may not be able to talk directly with excellent people, either they are company leaders and do not come to the company for a few weeks, or they do not have the ability to move excellent people to come to their own companies.
At this time, what you need to do is to take the initiative, learn first, learn from books, learn from the big coffee on the Internet, jump out of the comfort zone, and enter the learning area, so that the more you can meet excellent people.
03 Focus on focus and isolate noise
Musk proposed to focus on the focus, isolate noise, and use it on enterprises, that is, to spend money on the cutting edge, such as research and development, production, upgrading, etc., rather than using it on advertising.
As Jeff Hammerbacher puts it, "The best minds of our generation are thinking about how to get people to click on ads, and that's terrible." ”
Musk once fired Mary Beth Brown, a loyal secretary who was a legend on both SpaceX and Tesla, and was responsible for arranging everything big and small for Musk.
She worked diligently for 12 years, but because she wanted to raise her salary, she got a few weeks off, and then Musk took over her job and found that he could handle it, so he paid a December termination payment and fired her.
This incident can actually show that he wants to spend money on more important things.
And this point, in our daily life, is also very applicable. I once took a course on the effectiveness of time, and it was said that people like to do simple and happy things first, but they should actually do the most important things first.
Because by accomplishing the most important things, you can create the life you want and increase your effectiveness by 16 times.
It's like the law of two and eight, doing things, too. Wouldn't it be better to leverage 80% of the results with 20% of the time, so that you will have more time to do what you want to do.
Therefore, we need to learn to eliminate noise and focus on the key points and core content to achieve higher results.
04 Don't follow the crowd
In life, we are often influenced by the idea that we should work well at the age of 25, get married before the age of 30, and preferably have children before the age of 35.
If the actual situation does not conform to the above, you will receive a lot of suggestions, and even accusations. But your life should be up to you.
Musk often mentions the "first principles", which means that you can see the internal logic through the appearance and reason from the root, so that you can judge well.
The same is true of the trajectory of life, if you are not married before the age of 30, we may observe the previous life experience, guess whether there is no love in the front, or spend most of the time on the work career, or other reasons, find the most essential reason, the problem is also very well solved.
What suits others may not be right for you. Just like Confucius teaching advocates "teaching according to aptitude", rather than teaching according to the script.
Musk had wanted to complete his great idea by buying a rocket, but because of the price problem, he chose to launch the rocket himself.
By reading a lot of professional books such as "Principles of Rocket Propulsion", "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics", "Aerodynamics of Gas Turbines and Rocket Propulsion", he listed a table of materials for rocket construction, assembly, launch, etc., and found that the cost of launching would be much lower.
Starting from the fundamentals, finding the essence, and then going up layer by layer, this is the connotation of the first principle, and it is also an important idea to help him succeed. Indeed, if he had chosen to follow the crowd and follow the path that others had followed, he might have been very relaxed, but the harvest he had gained would not have been as great as it is now.
Everyone has their own independent thoughts, so you can become a better version of yourself and go out of your own way.
As Dante said: Go your own way and let others say go!
05 Take advantage of your youth and go on an adventure
20 to 30 years old, is a flowering age, but also the most carefree years. At this time, most of the parents were physically tough, and they had not yet established a family, living a state of "one person eats enough, and the whole family is not hungry".
This age group is the most worth letting go of the moment, because you won't have too many concerns. If you wait for yourself to have a family and children, and then take risks, whether it is a psychological or physical burden, it will be very large, and your energy will not be able to keep up.
Musk once said in an interview: "I don't know what it means to give up unless I die." ”
It was after three failed rocket launches, all kinds of online rhetoric poured in, and it was in a period of economic turmoil, spaceX and Terrass, two companies, were in a financial rupture, he also sold houses, bought cars, and asked friends to borrow money to pay employees.
But he still did not give up, and the fourth time he finally succeeded, and all the rumors and negative voices were broken. Launching a rocket to make Mars a second place for people to live, he is constantly working on this idea.
As there is a classic line in the movie "When Happiness Knocks": "If you have a dream, you have to defend it!" ”
Indeed, while there is still time and opportunity, do what you want to do.
Musk's life is a legendary life, a life of adventure.
He used his real experience to explain the connotation of these five suggestions to young people, dare to think, dare to do, dare to fight, dare to break through, so that he has great power, three times a year to become the world's richest man.
Behind the envy, I hope that each of us can use his five-point advice, although it is very simple, but the words are reasonable.
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