Elon Musk's Life Advice Will Change Your Future (MUST WATCH)

[Music] I try think what could I say that could actually helpful or useful to you in the future and I thought perhaps to tell the story of cars sort of came to be here how did some of these things happen and and maybe there's some lessons there because I often find myself wondering how did this happen so when I was young I I I didn't really know what I was going to do when I got older people kept asking me and eventually I thought the idea of inventing things would be would be really cool and the reason I thought that was because I read a quote from Odyssey clock which said that a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and that's really true if you go back say 300 years the things that we take for granted today you'd be burned at the stake for you know being able to fly that's crazy being able to see over long distances being able to communicate having effectively with the Internet a group mind of sorts and having access to all the world's information instantly from almost anywhere in the earth this is stuff that that really would be magic it would be considered magic in times past in fact I think it actually goes beyond that because there are many things that we take for granted today that weren't even imagined in times past they weren't even in the realm of magic so it actually goes goes beyond that so I thought well you know if if I can do some of those things basically if I can advance technology then that that's like magic and I would be really cool and I was at sort of a slight existential crisis because I was trying to figure out what does it all mean like what's the purpose of things and I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world if we can do things that expand the scope and scale of consciousness then we're better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened and that's really the only way forward so I studied physics and business because I figured in order to do a lot of these things you need to know how the universe works and you need to know how the economy works and you also need to bring a lot of people together to work with you to create something because it's very difficult to do something as as an individual if it's if it's a significant technology so I originally came out to California to try to figure out how to improve the energy density of electric vehicles basically to try to figure out if there was an advanced capacitor that could serve as an alternative to batteries that was a 95 and that's also when the internet started to happen and I thought well I can either pursue this this technology where success maybe may not be one of the possible outcomes which is always tricky or participate in the internet and and be part of it so I decided to drop out did some internet stuff did a few things here and there what one of which is PayPal and maybe it's helpful to say one of the things that was important than in the creation of PayPal was kind of how it started because the initial had thought was with PayPal was to create an agglomeration of financial services so if you have one place where all your financial services needs would be seamlessly integrated and works smoothly and then we had like a little feature which was through email payments and whenever we'd show the system off to someone we'd show the hard part which was the agglomeration of financial services which was quite difficult to put together nobody was interested then we'd show people email payments which was actually quite easy and everybody was interested so this is a I think it's important to take feedback from your environment you know you want to be as closed-loop as possible so we focused on email payments and really try to make that work and that's what really got things to take off but if we hadn't responded to what people said then we would probably would not have been successful so it's important to look for things like that and focus on them when you see them and you're correct your prior assumptions and then going from PayPal I thought well what are some of the the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity it really wasn't from the perspective of what's the rank ordered best way to to make money which is okay but it was really what I think is going to most affect the future humanity so I think the biggest terrestrial problem we've got is sustainable energy but the production and consumption of energy in a sustainable manner if we don't solve that the century we're we're in deep trouble and then the other one being the extension of life beyond Earth to make life multiplanetary so the latter is the basis for SpaceX and the former is the basis for Tesla and SolarCity and when I started SpaceX it actually initially I thought that cool is there's no way one could possibly start a rocket company I wasn't that crazy I thought well what is a way to increase NASA's budget that was actually my initial goal so I thought well if we do a low-cost mission to Mars in the cold Mars Oh Asus which would land seeds and dehydrated nutrient gel and you hydrate them upon landing and then you have this great sort of money shot of green plants on a red background the public tends to respond to presidents and superlatives and this would be the first life on Mars the birth of life's ever travel as far as we know and I thought well that that would get people really excited and therefore increase the NASA's budget so obviously the big financial outcome from such a mission would probably be zero so anything better than that was on the upside so I actually went to Russia three times to look at buying a refurbished ICBM because that was the best deal and I can tell you it was very weird going there in 2000 late 2001 2002 going to the Russian rocket forces and saying I'd like to buy two of your biggest rockets but you can keep the new so that's a lot more the thought I was crazy but I did have money so that was that was okay after making several trips to to Russia I came conclusion that actually my initial impression was was wrong because my initial thought was well that there's not enough will to explore and expand beyond Earth and have a Mars base and that kind of thing but I can't Christian that that was wrong in fact there's plenty of will particularly in the United States because the United States is the nation of explorers the people who came here from from other parts of the world and I think the United States really a distillation of the spirit of human exploration but if people think it's impossible or it's going to completely break the federal budget then they're not going to do it so after my third trip I said okay well what we really need to do here is try to solve the space transport problem and and started SpaceX and this list was against the advice of pretty much everyone I talked to what one friend made me sit down and watch a bunch of videos rockets blowing up let me tell you he wasn't far wrong it was tough going there in the beginning because I never built anything physical I mean I'd built like full model rockets as a kid and that kind of thing but I never had a company that built in any physical so I'd have to figure out how to do all these things and bring together the right team of people and so we did all that and then failed three times it was tough tough going just thinking about a rocket is the passing grade is a hundred percent and you don't get to actually test the rocket in the real environment that is going to be in so I think so the best analogy for rocket engineering is like if you want to create a really complicated but a software you can't run the software as an integrated whole and you can't run it on the computer its intended to run on but the first time you put it all together and write it on that computer it must run with no bugs that's basically the essence of it so we must mock there the first launch I was picking up bits of rocket near the new launch scientist but sad we learn with each successive flight and were able to eventually with the fourth flight in 2008 reach orbit and that was also with the last bit of money that we had so thank goodness that happened I think the sayings fourth time's the charm [Music] so we got the Falcon one to orbit and then began to scale that up to the Falcon nine which is about an order of magnitude more thrust it's a round a million pounds of thrust and we managed to get that to orbit and then develop the Dragon spacecraft which recently was able to dock and return to Earth from the space station how is a white knuckled event it's a huge relief slow can't quite believe it actually happened but there's a lot more that must happen beyond this in order for humanity to become a spacefaring civilization ultimately a multi-planet species and that's something I think it's vitally important and I hope that some of you will participate in that either at SpaceX or at other companies because it's just really one of the most important things for the preservation and extension of consciousness it's worth noting as I'm sure people are aware that Earth has been around for four billion years and civilization at least in terms of having writing has been around for ten thousand years and that's being generous so it's really it's in order tenuous existence that civilization and and consciousness as we know it is was being on earth and I think I'm actually fairly optimistic about the future of Earth I don't want to sort of people to have the wrong impression that I think we're all about to die I think things will most likely be okay for a long time on earth but not for sure but most likely but even if it's sort of 99% likely a 1% chance it's little worth spending a fair bit of effort to ensure that we have backed up the biosphere you know planetary redundancy if you will so I think I think it's really really quite important and in order to do that there's breakthrough that needs to occur which is to create a rapidly and completely reusable transport system to Mars which is one of those things that's right on the borderline of impossible that's sort of the thing that we're going to try to achieve there with SpaceX and then on the Tesla front the goal with Tesla was really to try to show what electric cars can do because people had the wrong impression we had to change people's perception of an electric vehicle because they used to think of it as something that was slow and ugly and had low range unlike a golf cart so that's why we created the Tesla Roadster to show that you can be fast attractive and and long-range and it's amazing how even though you can show that something works on paper and the calculations are very clear until you actually have the physical object and they can drive it it doesn't really sink in for people so that I think is something worth learning if you're going to create a company the first thing you should try to do is create a working prototype you're everything everything looks great on PowerPoint you can make anything work on PowerPoint but if you're an actual demonstration article even if it's in primitive form that's much much more effective for convincing people after we made the Tesla Roadster people said oh sure sure we always knew you could make a car like that it's an expensive car and it's low volume and it's small and all that but you can make a real car like okay fine you're gonna make that too but I think the overarching point I want to make is that you guys are the magicians of the 21st century don't like anything hold you back imagination is the limit and go out there and create some magic thank you [Music]

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Length: 12min 43sec (763 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 01 2020