Iron Man is known as the Silicon Valley of elon Musk (Elon Musk),
is the second after Steve Jobs, the most watched Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and industrialists.
It is the prototype of the movie "Iron Man".
We made a lot of enviable achievements:
- Tesla electric car has a benchmark brand,
- The creation of the world's most stable carrier rocket Space X,
- International payment company PayPal co-founder,
- America's largest solar energy company Solar City's largest shareholder
And ordinary people can achieve more than any one achieved enough to be called a success.
In this paper, to explore the wonderful story behind these achievements and to think about and learn from.
Teenager learning Pa
Musk was born in South Africa, a very intense ethnic conflict in the country.
In his childhood parents divorced, the first few years of life to follow the current, 12-year-old lives with his father and then to 18 years old.
If the holding current popular "native family decide the future" This point of view (this view is not new, it can be said that Freud's childhood determinism popular version, but the fact that contrary theory Adler more practical significance), Musk took no criminal astray been considered a miracle.
But in fact a lot of great people are growing up in single-parent families: Confucius, Mencius, Aristotle, Yue Fei, Newton, Obama.
But Musk is not extremely frustrated unhappy childhood, but is constantly learning to read, 13-year-old has developed a game called "×××" (blastar) and earned $ 500.
For Musk, the divorced parents is far from the worst.
In junior high school experienced school bullying as long as three or four years, serious one was knocked to the underworld hospital for a week.
Even beating his friend, until that friends and Musk promised not to play with so far.
At the age of 17 by chance he inherited his mother's International and moved to Canada to study, at the age of 18 to enter the Queen's University (since more than beauty here).
Abnormal Psychology course gained 98 points to win by 2 points deducted argue with the professor.
2 years after the transfer to the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania, majoring in double degree - economics and physics.
Students evaluation of him is "Once Andy Herron would like to know a thing, he would put a lot more effort than others. This is Andy Herron and others differences."
Many times we see the school bully, successful people think they are talented, but they probably just ordinary people used to play the rest of the time is spent on feel valuable thing only.
Consider entering the game industry after graduating from college, but eventually gave up, because I think even made a very good computer game can not have a great impact on the world.
By thinking about the future of the world, that the Internet, renewable energy sources and space exploration in these three areas will play a huge role in world development.
At the same time I was going to enter these areas, but you can actually see the first in the Internet industry.
This pattern and this vision of the future and looking too enviable attention he was just a recent graduate.
For ordinary people doing career planning is not there when reference?
Confused when many people like to put the heart back early, but this is actually a fixed thinking behind the development of early heart thing is not necessarily right, good.
I prefer a way of thinking is the "final thought."
For example in 2007, Ma Ali reached $ 10 billion in market capitalization to time, to make strategic decisions over the next decade: building an e-commerce ecosystem, rather than just staring at Taobao was the most profitable business, only a few decades after the market value of billions of dollars.
Simple to understand, after the final thinking is based on many years of "finality" thinking outside the box to decide now the most important thing.
This way of thinking has also helped me to this day, against the company from obscurity to be knowledgeable programmer to course instructor, team leaders, technical book author.
My story about the future will have the opportunity to share in the public zhong No. "web learning community" in.
Pot of gold
Musk intended to pursue a PhD in physics and materials science at Stanford University, but spent two days at the University dropped out to join the Internet.
And brother founded a Silicon Valley Yellow Pages website (can be understood as a simple version of the public comment).
Musk was a man get system development, while his brother is responsible for door to door.
He almost never left the office, tired and slept in sleeping bags in the office.
And told employees, who in the morning to put his company kicked awake, then he continued to work.
Due to get venture capital as well as cooperation with the Media Group, the company gradually succeed.
Was eventually sold for $ 307 million, Musk received 22 million, was 27 years old.
This is a difficult business experience fully embodies Musk work to focus and perseverance.
Of concentration is really too valuable.
Requirement of concentration itself into the heart flow state, and only state to flow into the heart to work efficiently, to learn, to obtain success.
But now the attention economy of society, there are too many products trying to disperse people and people addicted to attention.
Open a game to play, brush a short video, a network drama to see which one anything as long as one is likely to start a night passed.
There are also various websites advertising work, chat messages distracting.
Even more distressing is that these acts not only a waste of valuable time, but also become a tool for business people to make money.
At the same time from another point of view, to deal with certain things, if we get rid of the interference and distractions, specialized division processing period of sleepless nights, rather than split and delayed, whether or not it better?
For example, often heard in closed development - whether we can implement closed learn it on their own?
Not to mention the importance of perseverance, keep things in the river of time in the form of potential energy, potential energy and this might be unbreakable moat.
For example, Luo Ji thinking 60 seconds voice every day, this insistence will form a brand effect, and later on, someone to do similar things can not go beyond it in the time dimension.
Most rational people who have hundreds of millions of money, suddenly became the nouveau riche, certainly used to do finance and investment, and then lift some life.
That Musk was how to do it?
Serial entrepreneur
The first step to itself as the Silicon Valley of ××× (spotlight), he reported to the media, including:
- I bought a 167-square-meter apartment.
- He bought a $ 1 million McLaren F1 sports car, only 62 worldwide.
- I bought a small propeller aircraft and learn to fly an airplane.
Musk while the second month will create a new company X.com, and cast into the rest of the majority of the money.
This is not so much nouveau riche big spenders, but in fact is a personal awareness and expand the fastest means of establishing contacts.
And at the same time promote his new company.
Many times the marketing of products may be more important than the quality of the product itself, such as to create a sales miracle of melatonin.
So here we can see Musk is not only a technology otaku interest, we have long recognized the importance of visibility, influence.
This is Peter Thiel founded a few years after the merger of the company's PayPal.
Eventually acquired for $ 1.5 billion price, a $ 180 million after tax payment Musk, a billionaire.
Most people at this time basically can live a comfortable retirement, and put forward the most charitable funds, write a few books.
But Musk entrepreneurial spirit completely free from noise.
After the success in the Internet field, he turned to the field of space exploration, the formation of life on Mars Foundation.
After the conversion from Russia to purchase ××× intercontinental rocket failed idea, spend a few months time to study the physical principles behind its aerospace industry, a detailed calculation of the cost of manufacturing rockets, and then set up Space X company decided to start from scratch to build cheaper rockets.
Difficult times
Of course, the difficulty of making the rocket is huge, especially his promise to create a cheaper, more load, recyclable when the rocket.
- In November 2005, the first launch due to an oxygen tank valve failure termination.
- In March 2006, flying out of control in less than 25 seconds to fall to the ground.
- In March 2007, directly after the explosion off four minutes.
Space X at this time is like a bottomless pit, almost put Musk wallet emptied.
Meanwhile in 2004, he shares Tesla, in 2005 made the first prototype, although received a lot of orders, but soon discovered that the $ 85,000 Roadster have to cost $ 200,000, so personally involved in research and development to cut costs .
In 2008 the Great Depression was his most difficult times, always on the verge of bankruptcy.
- Credit approaching bankruptcy. Tesla online media began to discuss the closure of time, and even some former employees beginning in the online exposure, said Tesla is simply a lie. 50 articles on Tesla discuss how the demise of most of the time appeared one day.
- Economy close to bankruptcy. Space X is still third launch failure.
- Living close to collapse. And his wife was also in divorce.
Iron Man was born
Although the hero of the story is different, but wonderful life is always ups and downs.
In September 2008, Space X successfully launched the fourth time, won a $ NASA 16 billion in orders.
Meanwhile on Christmas Eve Tesla also received a new round of financing. At that time, Musk only a few hundred thousand dollars, can not even pay salaries to employees the next day.
Today, Space X has been called one of the most stable cheapest service provider space, Tesla has become a benchmark for the electric vehicle industry.
Of course, Musk's ×××, super high-speed rail plans are progressing steadily.
Strong, eager to learn, focus, persistence, can do this, and will also have a general hero Iron Man Life ~
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