In the "2021 Hurun Global Rich List" released some time ago, Musk became the world's richest man for the first time with a wealth of 1.28 trillion yuan.
But he felt that he was an ordinary person, born in South Africa, self-made, and had come all the way to the present only because of persistence.
Ridario said that no successful person is actually gifted.
Ordinary people Musk, no talentEda Lidario, said who believed it. But come to think of it, just in case what they say is true.
I'm going to research what Musk has to learn!
So I spent 5 days reading all of Musk's speeches, books, and materials, and found that what he had focused on over the years was actually 2 things.
One is the first principle, when encountering a problem, we all return to the origin of the problem to think. But this was too difficult, I tried it a few times, and found it difficult to use it to solve the problem.
But interestingly, another thing can be said to have completely changed my destiny. Since then, I've been a completely different person, and everything around me has changed.
Moreover, after I told the people around me about this matter, I found that it did change their fate.
Musk said, "I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary people." "I used to think Musk was saying he was an ordinary man who was Versailles.
Later, I found out that I was stupid at the time and did not understand the true meaning of this sentence.
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In the early years, I worked 14 hours a day, 6 days a week, and all kinds of problems came to me, and I could find a way to solve them.
Several colleagues who play well have said that I am "good to live without sticking to people", the company's various rewards will more or less have my share, take tens of thousands of dollars every month, and at the end of the year, there can be more than 100,000 year-end awards, and the days are still quite good.
But over time, I found that even if I was strong, I was just a screw in a large company, and the company had me and I turned the same. People are in this life, I don't want to just disappear into the sea of people in Houchang Village.
I had an idea that I wanted to make a social product, so I went to work and secretly did it. When the product is made, if someone invests in me, it is not too late for me to leave my job.
So I got to work at a point and went home to make my products. Doing it, many users began to use my products, I also became more and more tired of the mess in the company, I came up with the idea of starting my own business.
As a result, the next day, because of disagreement with the leader, quarreled, I used to endure a little bit and passed, but that day, in a fit of anger, I and the leader made a resignation application.
Finally, I can spend all my time on my product, increase the user size of the product by an order of magnitude, and as long as there are users, everything is not a problem.
So I started renting offices, hiring people, and becoming the CEO of the company I had imagined.
But I found that the CEO, instead of holding meetings and meeting people every day, there are employees to do things for you, you can make money...
Do not do the company does not know what is called the company account, what is called the agency bookkeeping, what is called the annual review... The business license alone is enough to make people's heads bigger, although I am looking for someone to handle it, but this matter is beyond the trouble I imagined.
Although I recruited people, I did everything myself at the beginning, on the one hand, I did not dare to recruit expensive people, so the staff ability was still a little bit unable to keep up. On the other hand, you don't know which detail will meet your customers, the noble people who will change the fate of the company.
Then I found out that when I encountered difficulties when working, you could find a leader and say: You change someone, I can't do it. Or simply pick up the stalls. But I can't say that right now, much less do it. I can only carry it by myself.
And since I started my business, there have been a lot of things for me to think about every day, so many people are staring at me.
If this decision had been made correctly, everyone would have thought that I should have done it, but what if I had done it wrong? What to do? Can anyone help me carry it?
But fortunately, the problems were solved one by one, I relied on my own groping, and finally achieved nearly 1 million users, feeling that everything was in front of me.
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But I carefully calculated that from the establishment of the company to the present, recruiting, renting offices, decoration, renting servers, has been spending money. Although there are many users now, the company has almost no revenue.
I realized that it was not enough to do a good product, and my ability was simply not enough to support a company. I was at a loss as to how the company would make money.
Sometimes look at the public account article, watch some people share his entrepreneurial experience, I think it is okay to look at it, there is no great use, after all, entrepreneurship is such a thing, if you can teach, those teachers have long been financially free, why come out to lecture.
I could sense something was wrong, but I just didn't know what was wrong. During that time, I was so anxious that I was about to hold myself out of my internal wounds.
The company was running out of money, and when I saw that it was going to go out of business, my hair began to fall out a lot. The doctor said it was caused by too much stress. But I still had to act indifferent because I couldn't panic and the pressure was even greater.
When I received a call from my parents, my parents happily told me that my brother had bought them a new house and that my sister came to see them every weekend. I told them that when I was successful in starting a business, I would take them to Beijing.
Mom and Dad said yes, and asked me if I had enough money, and they still had some savings there.
I couldn't help it at once and quickly hung up the phone, which was the first time I cried when I grew up.
It turns out that the most difficult thing about starting a business is not the beginning, nor the end, but when you do it for the most part, you find that things are neither as ideal as they were at the beginning, and they are not bad enough to need to end decisively.
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The next day, a friend sent me a WeChat message, saying that he would give me a glimpse of a senior who relied on entrepreneurial financial freedom.
When we first met him, I told him all about my experiences, and after he listened, he didn't seem to be surprised at all, and then asked me a question that I will never forget.
He said, "Why don't you learn?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, and then immediately retorted to him: "I learned, why didn't I learn?" 36 Kr, Tiger Sniff, Chaos University, Noteman these public account articles, I almost every one of them are not left behind, how come I did not learn? ”
"And I've looked at Musk before, and of the two things he's focused on over the years, the first is the first principle of first nature, and the second is continuous learning!"
The senior was very calm, and then asked: "Then after you finish learning, will you use it?" ”
"Use, use, that is, I found that every time I read the article, I understood it, and immediately did it, but I didn't know why, after a few days of doing it, I went back and couldn't use it at all." I sometimes suspect that they are not telling the truth at all. ”
Seniors said: "In fact, what they said is correct, but they did not say when to use it, what kind of business it is suitable for." ”
"For example, Musk's first principle of sex I guess you also learned, is it useless?" It's not wrong, but his method comes from his experience in electric cars and rockets, and your business is completely different from his model, how can you directly copy it? ”
After listening to it, I suddenly realized that they were not wrong, but my method was wrong.
The seniors went on to say, "Whether the problem you're facing right now is whether the company is going to make money or grow, these problems are actually all going to work." ”
"What kind of money can you make in your business, how to make money, these things are like doing scientific experiments, smearing and moving forward, burning a lot of money to get." 」 If you can learn in advance, there is no need to burn your own money. ”
At that moment, I was so enlightened that I had never felt so clear-headed.
That night, we chatted for more than 5 hours, and before leaving, the senior WeChat sent me a thing, he said, although this thing is not what he said, but this thing is far beyond the essence of his 20 years of entrepreneurship.
Finally, he also told me, "Those who talk about the great truth are all just and righteous, and those who talk about how to do it are the ones who are really willing to help you." ”
It was like I grabbed a life-saving straw and started learning these things.
It didn't take long for me to learn, and I suddenly realized that the feeling was wrong before, but the feeling of not being able to tell where the problem was was all gone.
Question after question was clearly placed in front of me, I knew where I was wrong, and I knew where I should have worked hard before the company went bankrupt. I started to adjust my business a little bit according to what was said inside.
I began to have a map in my heart, and every time I encountered difficulties, I knew how to choose, where the mistakes were, and how to optimize. I became more and more determined, more and more down-to-earth.
At the beginning of the year, I found that the whole business not only fed the team, but also started to make money.
At the current growth, even if I don't do new things, I can make more than 3 million profits by the end of the year. Many investors have asked me out and want to invest in my projects.
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