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Elon Musk's Ultimate Advice for Young People - ONLY 1% KEEP TRYING - YouTube
Channel: Motivation2Study
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I think the thing that drives me is that
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I want to be able to think
about the future, and...
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feel good about that.
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So,
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that we’re doing what we can to
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have the future be as good as possible,
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to be inspired by what is likely to happen,
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and to look forward to the next day.
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You know, there are American heroes
who don't like this idea.
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Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan
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have both testified against
commercial space flight
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in the way that you’re developing it
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and I wonder what you think of that?
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I was very sad to see that
because those guys are...
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Yeah
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you know, that those guys are
heroes of mine, so it’s really tough.
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You know, I wish they would
come and visit
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and see the hard work
that we’re doing here.
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And I think that would change their mind.
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They inspired you to do this, didn’t they?
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Yes
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And to see them
casting stones in your direction.
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It’s difficult.
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Did you expect them to cheer you on?
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Certainly hoping they would.
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What are you trying to prove to them?
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What I’m trying to do is to make
a significant difference
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in space flight and and...
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help make space flight accessible
to almost anyone.
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And I would hope for as much support
in that direction as we can receive.
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- Why is no one else doing these things?
- What's your pain threshold?
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- Yeah
- I hope it's real high.
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Yeah SpaceX is alive
but it's kind of at sea so is Tesla...
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if things just got
a little bit the other way
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both companies would be dead
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like one of the most difficult choices
I have ever faced in life
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was was in 2008
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and I think I had...
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maybe 30 million dollars left
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30 or 40 million dollars left in 2008.
I had two choices
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I could put it all into one company
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and then the other company
would definitely die
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or split it between the two companies.
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And if I split it between two companies
they both might die
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and when you put your blood, sweat
and tears into creating something,
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building something, it's like a child
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it's like which one,
am I gonna let one starve to death.
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I couldn't bring myself to do it.
So I split the money between the two.
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Fortunately, thank goodness
they both came through.
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What was your biggest failure?
And how did it change you?
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For SpaceX,
the first three launches failed.
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And we were just barely able
to scrape together enough
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parts and money to do the fourth launch.
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If that fourth launch had failed
we would have been dead.
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I tried very hard to get the right
expertise in for SpaceX
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I tried hard to find a great
Chief engineer for the rocket
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but the good chief engineers wouldn't join…
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and the bad ones, well,
there’s no point in hiring them.
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So I ended up being
Chief engineer of the rocket
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So if I could have found somebody better
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than we would have maybe had
less than three failures.
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When I was young, I...
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I didn't really know what I was
going to do when I got older.
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People kept asking me and…
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But then eventually I thought the idea
of inventing things would be really cool.
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And the reason I thought that was because
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I read a quote from Arthur C. Clark
which said that
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“A sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."
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And that’s really true.
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If you go back, say 300 years,
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the things that we take for granted today,
you’d be burned at stake for.
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You know, being able to fly. That’s crazy.
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Being able to see over long distances,
being able to communicate,
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having effectively...
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with the Internet, a group mind of sorts,
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and having access to
all the world’s information
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instantly from almost
anywhere on the earth.
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This is, this is the stuff that
really would be magic
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that would be considered
magic in times past.
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In fact, I think it actually
goes beyond that,
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because there are many things
that we take for granted today
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that weren’t even imagined in times past.
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They weren’t even in the realm of magic.
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So, it actually goes beyond that.
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So I thought, well if I can do
some of those things
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basically -if I can-
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advance technology, then that's like magic
and that would be really cool.
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And the the...
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I always had sort of a slight existential
crisis, because I was trying to figure out
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what does does the mean?
Like what’s the purpose of things?
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And I came to the conclusion that
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if we can advance
the knowledge of the world,
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if we can do things that expand
the scope and scale of consciousness,
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then we’re better able to
ask the right questions
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and become more enlightened.
And that’s really the only way forward.
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I think certainly
being focused on something
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that you're confident will have
high value to someone else
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and just being really rigorous
in making that assessment
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because people tend to...
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a natural human tendency
is wishful thinking.
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So a challenge for entrepreneurs is to say,
well, what’s the difference between
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really believing new ideas
and sticking to them
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versus pursuing some unrealistic dream
that doesn’t actually have merit?
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And it’s it's, that is, that is
a really difficult thing to...
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Can you tell the difference
between those two things?
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So you need to be sort of
very rigorous in your self-analysis.
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I think certainly extremely tenacious
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and...
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and then just work like hell,
I mean, you just have to put in,
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you know, 80 hour to 100 hour
weeks every week.
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Well, first of all I think
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if somebody is doing something
that is useful to the rest of society
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I think that's a good thing.
Like it doesn't have to change the world
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Like, you know,
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If you’re doing something that
has high value to people,
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and that frankly, even it's something,
if it’s like just a little game
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or, you know,
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some improvement
in photo sharing or something,
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if it.. if I does a small amount of good
for a large number of people
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that’s, I mean I think that's fine.
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Like, stuff doesn’t need to
change the world just to be good.
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