AGAINST ALL ODDS - Elon Musk (Motivational Video)

you know there are American heroes who don't like this idea Neil Armstrong Gene Cernan have both testified against commercial spaceflight in the way that you're developing it and I wonder what you think of that I was very sad to see that because those guys are yeah you know those guys here's mine so it's really tough you know I wish they would come and visit and and see the hardware they were doing here and then I think that would change their life they inspired you to do this didn't they yes and to see them casting stones in your direction it's difficult did you expect them to cheer you on so they hoping it would what are you trying to prove to them what I'm trying to do is to make a significant difference in in spaceflight and and and help make spaceflight accessible to to almost anyone one of the most difficult choices I have ever faced in life was was in 2008 and I think I had I could maybe thirty million dollars left over thirty or forty one else left in 2008 I had two choices I could put her all into one company and then the other company would definitely die or split it between the two companies and their best bet of between two companies then both might die and when you put your blood sweat and tears into creating something a bully something it's like a child and so it said which one am I gonna let one starve to death you can bring myself to do it so fast I split the money between two fortunately the goodness collective of future what was your biggest failure and having to change you well there's a ton of failures along the way that's for sure except for essa as a support for SpaceX the first three launches failed and we were just barely able to speak together enough parts and money to do the fourth launch that both launched and failed we would have been dead so multiple failures along the way I tried very hard to get the right expertise in for for SpaceX I tried hard to to find a great chief engineer for the rocket but it but the good Chief Engineers wouldn't join and the bad ones will there's no point in hiring them so I ended up a chief engineer of the rocket so if I could have found somebody better then we would have maybe had less than three failures that third failure in a row did you think I need to pack this in though why not I don't ever give up so many people try to talk me out of starting our company it was it was crazy one good friend of mine collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made me watch those you just didn't want me to lose all my money we're doing these things that seemed unlikely to succeed and we've been fortunate and at least thus far they have succeeded now is the time to take risk you don't have kids as you can older your obligations increase and once you have a family you start taking risk not just for yourself but for your family as well it gets much harder to do things that might not work out so now is the time to do that before you before you have those obligations so I would encourage you to take risks now do something bold you won't regret it how did you figure you were gonna start a car company and be successful at but I didn't really think Tesla would be successful I thought we would most likely fail but I thought that we at least could address the false perception that people have that an electric car had to be ugly and slow and and boring like you vote but but you say you didn't expect the company be successful then why try if something is important enough you should try even if they probably outcome as failure or how do you think about making a decision when everyone tells you this is a crazy idea where do you get the internal strength to do that I'm office well I'd say I actually think I feel fear quite strongly so as long as though I just have the absence of fear I've I feel it quite strongly but there were times when something is important enough you believe it enough but you do it in spite of the fear I think about what's what technology solution is necessary in order to achieve the particular goal and then try to make as much progress in that direction as possible I think the being a multi-planet species being out there among the stars is important for the long-term survival of humanity and that's one reason but then the part that I find personally most motivating is that it creates a sense of adventure and it makes people excited about the future if you consider two futures one where we are forever confined to it until eventually something terrible happens or another future where we are out there on many planets maybe even going beyond the solar system I think that second version is incredibly exciting and inspiring and they need to be reasons to get up in the morning you know life can't just be about solving problems otherwise what's the point it's gotta be things that people find inspiring and make life worth living when my brother and I were starting our first company instead of getting an apartment we just rented us a small office and we slept on the couch and we showered at the YMCA and we're so hot up we had one computer so the compass of the the website was up during the day and I was coding at night seven days a week all the time and I I sort of briefly had a girlfriend in that period and in order to be with me she have to sleep in the office so I work hard like it I mean every waking hour that's that's the the thing I would I would say if you're particularly if you're starting a company what whatever area that you get into given that you know even if you if you're the best the best there's always a chance of failure so I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing if you don't like it life is too short if you like what you're doing you think about it even when you're not working I mean it'll just it's something that your mind is drawn to and and if you don't like it you just really can't make it work I think you

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Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 18 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/JohnnyCashRules]

This is a great one! I watch it every now and then when I’m feeling blue

[u/magic-the-dog]

You know, for all that EM has and will achieve he gets so much shit.

It’s remarkable that he perseveres and a common thread you hear from people who make it big is to not to listen to naysayers.

Imagine if Elon listened to his friend’s reasonable advice not to throw his hard earned fortune away on a startup rocket company.