Foreword:
Elon Musk, I only knew that he founded spaceX and Tesla before, and I knew he was a very powerful character. But I don’t know much about his specific life and deeds. I
recently read the book "Silicon Valley Iron Man: The Adventures of Elon Musk" (not finished yet), and I have some new understanding of this great man. I have a new understanding of some of my worldview and values.
Write down your thoughts and understandings here.
First of all, a brief introduction,
Elon Musk , taken from the introduction of Baidu Encyclopedia: Elon Musk (Elon Musk), was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa (current name: Tshwane ), has dual citizenship in Canada and the United States, entrepreneur, engineer, and philanthropist.
He is currently CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, and Chairman of the Board of SolarCity. With a general understanding, let’s take a look at his evaluation in one sentence:
At present, there are only four aircraft in the world that can be launched and returned to flight: the United States, Russia, China and Elon Musk. How about this evaluation, everyone who heard this sentence should be very shocked. The first three countries are all big and powerful.
The fourth is a person or a company.
Reading fragment one:
A Canadian who has worked as a farmer, a construction worker, a cowboy performer, and a masseur. When his career and family reached the peak, he still chose to leave his homeland, sell all his properties, and relocate his family to an unfamiliar society. Turbulent South Africa.
Going deep into the jungle, looking for the lost city; flying over tens of thousands of miles from South Africa to Norway, and then to Australia in a private jet that he assembled, he ended his crazy life until he broke his neck in an airplane accident at the age of 72.
Impressions:
This sentence describes Musk’s grandfather. Family education has a great influence on the growth of a child. If Musk’s grandfather is a Conservative party, there may not be Musk today. After all, everyone grew up. , Will hear all kinds of
stories and experiences of the family . This will affect the way children do things, and family education has the most far-reaching impact on children. As the so-called three-year-old is 80, it is easy to change the nature. All this means that when he was a child or that the nature of a person determines his way of dealing with the world, and determines his future.
Of course, as stated in "The Selfish Gene", the character is written in the gene, and it also explains from a scientific point of view why Musk has been adventurous throughout his life. He learned from his grandfather and had an adventurous heart.
From another point of view, it also reflects that something is the thinking of Western countries, the culture is more open, and the courage to explore has influenced Musk. If Musk is placed in the domestic educational environment, he may not be able to produce such a lunatic. There is a joke that a Chinese man opened a restaurant in the United States and
made money, a second Chinese came, and he opened a restaurant immediately after seeing it, and the business was decent. The third Chinese came, see Zhuang also opened a restaurant. Our education seems to be the same. Seeing successful people or things, I like to copy one set and continue to do it again in the same place.
I saw an article talking about education before. It’s a similar view, saying that if a country succeeds in inventing mobile phones, Chinese people will definitely be able to make mobile phones, even better than the original version. There will be improvements and innovations, but China is very It is difficult to create a new thing independently after reaching the forefront.
This shows that Chinese people have strong learning ability and adaptability, but it is difficult to directly create a new thing and take the initiative to develop a new thing in an unknown field. This is not to belittle domestic education. After all, we have all come up step by step. It is just that in terms of innovative spirit, we still have a
lot of room for improvement.
Musk's grandfather died in an adventurous story. Throughout his life, I feel like one word, cool. Selling all the property to live in an unknown and dangerous area, and the modified airplane is really not afraid of falling to death if it is not installed properly. The feeling of going deep into the jungle and looking for the lost city is the plot of the adventurer in the movie.
First of all, I feel that it is not unreasonable for the number of foreigners to be small. Often all kinds of extreme challenges are foreigners. What we see is very brave. Of course, we must know that this is a kind of survivor deviation. What we can't see, if there is no video released, it may have gone to see Jesus and ventured into another world. But the world still needs such a pioneer, and the explorer
world can continue to progress.
Reading fragment two:
Humans have crawled through tree trunks and main branches, digging out those game-changing ideas – wheels, electricity, airplanes, phones, transistors. Now we can only dangle around the branches, mostly just to improve the invention of the past. In support of the ideas in his paper, Hubner, the frequency of innovation that changes human life has slowed. He also used data to prove that the number of patents submitted per capita is declining. "I think we will find that the possibility of another unreached invention will become smaller and smaller."
The only goal is to make more money in the shortest possible time, perhaps at least in the subconscious, everyone believes that reality will eventually shatter.
Impressions:
The combination of these two passages gives me the feeling that modern inventions are based on the success of the underlying science. However, the development of basic science has slowed down in recent years. Various scientific masters like Einstein and Boll competed and cooperated with each other in the era. With all kinds of novel and new theories bursting out, it seems
that such a thing does not exist in our age . I don’t know if I don’t pay too much attention to the development of science, or if it does happen, it feels like this. Over the years, the rapid development of the Internet is the Internet. One by one, competing and cooperating have become Internet companies, dividing users, traffic resources, etc., new apps appear,
die, large and small companies merge and disband. People go farther and farther in the virtual world. Although it is not a bad thing, fewer people do things like Elon Musk. In the Internet age, we become impetuous, and various media news instills a wave for you. How many days someone succeeds, how do you fail, make you feel
anxious. Then they use your anxiety and anxiety to harvest your IQ tax. Payments for all kinds of knowledge arise. After paying the money, there are more courses with no nutrition.
The only goal is to make more money in the shortest time. Doesn't that mean Internet companies? When you have a new idea, you can start
financing, start a business, and continue to expand production if you make money. If you don’t make money, you will go bankrupt and have a good idea to continue to raise financing. Some companies’ original intention is to make money, think about getting financing, or people’s money, to realize their own wealth and freedom,
and they have not made any contribution to the society. They are just vampires, like those who made P2P donations in 18 and ran away. In the company, most of the hard-earned money, medical treatment, and house purchases of other people's hard work, etc. were directly taken away, and nothing was left. This kind of black-hearted company took advantage of the convenience of the Internet to get a bloody meal.
It cannot be said here that a group of people were killed with one shot. Of course, some companies have made contributions to this society, mobilizing and configuring social resources, making information relatively symmetrical, and making people's behavior more transparent and convenient. To be reasonable, I think that the Ant Forest released by Ali, Ant Manor is very meaningful.
Mobilize everyone's attention and participate in actual charity. Planting trees, paying attention to left-behind children, helping people with disabilities, etc. are still very effective. A large part of the increase in the world's greening rate in 19 years has come from China and India. When it comes to China's green growth rate, it is inseparable from the energy you collect every day.
to sum up:
I haven't read this biography yet, and I only read a part of it, but it still has a lot of inspiration for myself. Everyone has their own dreams, but it is difficult to make a perfect choice between reality and dreams. When reading, you can get the comment of a middle-aged man I guess: "
I also want to Chase my dream like Musk, but do what I want to do, I can't afford to pay off the monthly mortgage, and there is a family waiting for me to take care of." I think this is really a true portrayal of the inner thoughts of many people. We will be constrained by various things in our lives, or more
directly, the constraints we give ourselves (if you don’t care about anything, there may be no constraints, so I Think of it as a constraint to ourselves), but it is these constraints and fetters that we grow up day by day, whether it comes from parents, lovers, or friends. We believe that they need us, we have a moral obligation
to take care of them and give them a home of peace of mind, so it is normal for them to raise a family when it comes to mortgages. I personally think that whether it is choosing to maintain this kind of fetters, to take good care of those we love, those who love us, or to work hard to chase their own dreams, it is advisable. After all, everyone does not define and understand happiness and dreams. same. These two things are not
always conflicting. Find a like-minded partner, maybe you are not so worried about the house problem. Tell your parents and friends clearly about your ambitions, they may understand, of course these are also quite It's difficult, but what is easy and effortless?
Since these two things only bring relative conflicts, we can use our wisdom to resolve the contradictions between them and try our best to accomplish what we think in our minds.