This is what Musk said in an interview, "Don't try to be a leader in order to be a leader or whatever, many times, the person who becomes a leader is the person who doesn't want to be a leader." ”
As we all know, the so-called young people should take the cloud, and young people have always had the idea and pursuit of "doing big things", such as "first earn a small goal".
But Musk believes that young people should not be motivated in this way, or that it is difficult to achieve a career if it is only to get rich and be a boss.
Musk suggests that young people should set the right goals and strive to make positive contributions to society:
"Try to do something useful, something useful to your fellow citizens, to the world."
In addition to Musk, Jobs has expressed similar views.
"Sometimes people will come up to me and say I want to start a new company, and I'll ask 'why', and they say they want to make a lot of money, and I'll forget it, and that's not enough, most of the time, you can't be successful — those who are driven by money and start a company, there are very few examples of success — those who succeed don't necessarily want to start a company in the first place, they just have an idea, they want to achieve it, they want the world to know, so they often have to start a company. Otherwise no one will take care of them..."
Although Musk has said that he hates being called "Jobs second", many of his understandings are indeed similar to Jobs. Perhaps, at a certain height of business and humanities, the two are actually the same.
Musk wanted to go to Netscape to get a job when he was younger, but he later felt that "no company wants me" and that it was better to create a company himself.
Musk is now seen as a leader in the field of commercial technology innovation, but as he puts it, it is also a helpless choice, "the person who becomes a leader is the one who does not want to be a leader."
The reason why I say these things about Musk and Jobs is because I think many entrepreneurs in China are thinking wrong from the starting point, perhaps because of the influence of traditional secular concepts, or perhaps the inertia of the corporate world in the past, and the utilitarian nature of our entrepreneurship is too strong.
For example, in recent years, the negative cases in the Internet field, some young entrepreneurs are seeking the authority and influence of "leaders", some people are to make a lot of money, everyone is busy, in the end, it is just for fame and fortune.
In fact, through the comparison between Huawei and other contemporaries, we should be able to realize the difference in corporate routes caused by different motivations and starting points.
If it is only for fame and fortune, then the pattern of doing business is small, because your starting point at the beginning is egoism, which is to maximize your own interests through everyone's efforts.
This will lead to utilitarianism and opportunism in terms of the nature of the enterprise, strategy and decision-making, even if you are lucky to be "big", it is also big but not strong.
The fundamental reason for our backwardness in scientific and technological innovation is here, and we lack the idealistic feelings of Jobs and Musk to "change the world".
In the eyes of many entrepreneurs and bosses, it is hypocritical and stupid not to talk about money, which leads to few entrepreneurs in the Chinese business community who are driven by a sense of mission.
In fact, personal struggle must consider the historical process, if an entrepreneur wants to achieve a big career, then the direction he chooses and the career he founds is not combined with the historical process.
Huawei's success proves this, and the success of Apple, Tesla and other companies also proves this.
Therefore, the rise and fall of the country is responsible, even if you are a small company, you should also have a sense of family and country. This is the wish to be equal, to stand tall.
Yu Chengdong said that he has a tried-and-true concept, "positioning determines status, vision determines the realm." This is worth pondering for Chinese bosses.
Don't pretend, don't deceive yourself, only the big hero can be the true color, the real hero must be from the heart.
Ask what you want in your heart, what do you think, Musk said that when he was young, he has been thinking about questions like "what is the purpose and meaning of human life", and he has been thinking "what is the factor that is most likely to affect the future of mankind?" instead of "What's the best way to make money?" ”
If Musk is the latter mode of thinking, then he can go to finance or lawyers or the like, with his level of intelligence, he has already made a fortune.
In fact, musk's Internet company when he was young allowed him to achieve financial freedom, but he did not enjoy the wealth, but invested in rockets, electric vehicles and other entrepreneurial projects. Because he wants to make humanity achieve interstellar survival and find a "backup" for the earth.
In the eyes of people like Musk and Jobs, a life of disloyalty to the heart is painful and not worth living. Musk said he had to go maverick and extraordinary, "Not how much I want to be CEO, but more: Hey, I think there are some important things that should be done, and if I'm not a CEO, I'm not sure if anyone will do these things." ”
For young people, entrepreneurship is difficult, compared to part-time work, entrepreneurship is really not fun, the pressure is huge, very difficult, very painful.
"If you really desire to do something in your heart, no matter what, you should go all out to do it, rather than just trying to stop in your spare time." Because it's only when you really go deeper that you'll find that sometimes things get extremely difficult. ”
Perhaps, we should all listen to Musk's advice and do the hard and right thing, not the other way around.
You know, only by living that kind of useful and valuable life is a good life, a life worth living. The happiness and meaning of life lies in altruism, integrating one's life into the destiny of the nation, the country and mankind.