Calm down for a moment, look at yourself now, and think:
Why am I in this place? Why am I doing this? What do I want?
Can you have sincere, definitive answers to these questions?
The answer is not easy to come up with, and it is more difficult to ask such a question than the answer.
Perhaps, in a sense, the key to determining whether a person is a mediocre person or not is whether he asks the right questions.
Musk thought about a question as a child, "What is the meaning of life?" ”
For many people, such questions are too general, meaningless, and can even be said to be a rude interruption and offense.
For example, I know that the owner of a certain business asked similar questions in public when he was in school, and the people around him looked at each other, silent, and the atmosphere was once very awkward.
Life is like this, there is nothing to say, for such "ideas", it is really unnecessary to ask questions such as the meaning of life.
The so-called secular is that everyone's "ideas" tend to be consistent, and those who are inconsistent will be regarded as "different" by everyone.
I never wanted to be an "outlier", for a long time, I was worried that I was different from others, I wanted to make myself "with the light".
But I did think about this, and once I talked to people about the question of "what is the meaning of life"... The look in those people's eyes at that time made me remember it vividly.
In fact, some questions are not very suitable for sharing with others, especially when you are obscure. If you're as successful as Musk, such a question might be noticeable and interesting.
However, what I want to say most is that if a person understands this problem when he is young, then he will have a direction and goal in his life, and he will find a "destiny" for himself.
I think everyone thinks more or less about the question of the meaning of life, and it is this question that triggers people's choices and destinies.
For example, Musk said that what is really important is to ask the right questions. "The more we can raise the scope and breadth of human consciousness, the better we can ask these questions." to ensure that humanity has a good future..."
By asking the right questions, Musk began to assume and envision the future of humanity, thus setting himself the mission and mission of making humanity "a multi-planet species."
With such problems, ideas, and missions, companies such as SpaceX and Tesla can naturally emerge. Because Musk needs to turn the ideal into reality through the efforts of these companies.
"What we need to consider is what people are living for and what is the meaning." Musk said he didn't think about "what's the best way to make money" when he started his business.
Musk believes that expanding the "wisdom map" of mankind, improving the wisdom of all mankind, and striving for a higher level of collective civilization for a lifetime... Such things would inspire him, the reason he got out of bed in the morning, and the meaning of his life.
Compared with Musk, what are the "ideas" of people in the world? They think about how to make more money, how to make themselves richer and better than the people around them.
Therefore, what kind of questions are asked is not only related to human intelligence, but also to human values. There are not many people in this world who can ask the right questions.
For a person to achieve so much, he must be able to ask powerful, really important questions. For example, Bezos once said that someone asked him the question of "what will change in the next 10 years", which he thought was very common. In his opinion, "In the next 10 years, what will not change?" "Such questions are more important.
Bezos said there are a lot of people who spend a lot of time asking "why do you want to do this?" But, "sometimes, the more powerful question is: 'Why not?' ’”
Asking a question is more important than solving it, and that's what Einstein suggested. The truth is, it's not that we're missing answers, it's about lacking the right questions — and the right questions themselves are part of the answers. To ask the right questions, you need to have a creative imagination and be able to see the nature of things.