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[投机实验室 @LabSpeculation]

2008年，马斯克参加了好莱坞一个派对，在场的社会名流都没正眼看他。

他们不停地打断马斯克讲话。

有人问，你搞的这些玩意儿到底有什么用？

还有人说，其实国会根本没钱给你。

最后他们甚至奚落马斯克：你说了半天火箭，但其实你一次任务都没飞成过，是吧。

等马斯克好不容易说完，大家就迫不及待的中场休息，上厕所去了。

那时候特斯拉和 SpaceX都快破产了，大家都觉得他是个笑话。

没人知道，属于马斯克的故事才刚刚开始。

[KOJO chopMONEY 🦅 @Chopmonie_1]

Nothing motivates me in this world more than this Michael Jackson quote video 🥹

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is the future we shall bring into being

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

HOW LIFE FEELS AFTER SUCCESSFULLY DIGGING YOURSELF OUT OF THE HOLE NOBODY KNEW YOU WERE IN.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Most people get rich so they can retire.

Elon got rich and chose to work even harder.

He could have chosen endless luxury. Instead, he chose 7-day workweeks, cars, rockets, robots, a Moon base, Mars and beyond.

[Miilato @litteralyme0]

Me driving to my 9-5 job while OF model and 10 year old YouTubers are buying their 4th property

[Shivon Zilis @shivon]

We all have our guilty pleasures…

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

Second day in Shanghai. Shopping. Dining. View.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

When I talk with a "Shaper" like Elon Musk, what stands out is the ability to operate at both the big-picture level and the granular detail.

I remember him walking me through the details of his car—from the screen to the button—and in the same breath talking about putting a watering can with a plant on a rocket to send to Mars just to establish "first life on Mars" and inspire people.

True shapers naturally bridge the gap between grand vision and high-level execution.

Credit: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri, and @myfirstmilpod

#RayDalio #ElonMusk #Vision #Leadership

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

🗣️ How did you manage to reach trillionaire status?

Elon Musk: “I build a lot of things with awesome people, and the companies that build those things get assigned a big value”

[Shivon Zilis @shivon]

He who looks to the stars ✨♥️

[Unnati @Unnati_builds24]

Elon Musk in a living room in 2008, 12 days from bankruptcy, pitching a $109,000 car to people...

[Shivon Zilis @shivon]

I’m always hit with a sense of awe that humans have created something so productively massive every time I drive by Giga Texas.

Given this scale image it’s tough to even fathom what a sight to behold Terafab will be!

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Elon Musk:

"Don't pursue money.

Make useful products, and money will come as a consequence."

A simple philosophy that has shaped some of the world's most ambitious companies.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked by an interviewer what he does when he makes a wrong decision.

He said he doesn't make decisions based on being right. He makes decisions based on expected value. Which means he expects to be wrong frequently. He said if you're not wrong at least 30% of the time you're not making enough decisions.

He described SpaceX's approach to rocket design. Instead of spending years perfecting a design on paper and then building it, they build it fast, launch it, watch it explode, and use the explosion as data for the next version. The explosions aren't failures. They're the fastest way to generate the information needed for success.

He said most companies fail not because they make bad decisions but because they make too few decisions. They spend so long trying to be right that the opportunity passes. A wrong decision made quickly generates data. A delayed decision generates nothing.

Then he said the part that made the interviewer go quiet. He said the biggest mistakes of his career weren't the times he was wrong. They were the times he was right but too slow. The times he knew the answer and waited for more confirmation before acting. The delay cost more than any wrong answer ever did.

The world sees Elon as a risk taker. He sees himself as someone who moves fast enough that the cost of being wrong is always lower than the cost of being slow. That's not the same thing as courage. It's math.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked if he's happy. A simple question at the end of a long interview. The interviewer expected a quick answer. What followed was the most honest 30 seconds Elon has ever given on camera. And it didn't land where anyone in the room expected.

He said "I think I have moments of happiness." Then stopped. Like he was testing the sentence against his actual experience and deciding if it was true.

He said the moments are real but they're short. A rocket lands successfully and for about ten seconds he feels something close to happiness. Then his brain immediately moves to what could be improved on the next attempt. A Tesla hits a production milestone and he feels it for maybe a minute before the next problem appears.

He said he doesn't think he's wired for sustained happiness. He's wired for sustained problem-solving. And there's always another problem. Happiness requires a moment where nothing needs fixing. His brain never arrives at that moment because it's always scanning for the next thing that's wrong.

He compared himself to a bloodhound that can't stop tracking a scent. The tracking is the purpose. Finding the thing at the end of the trail doesn't produce satisfaction. It just reveals another trail.

The most successful builder alive doesn't experience success the way you imagine he would. The wins don't accumulate into a reservoir of happiness. They evaporate instantly and are replaced by the next unsolved problem. The engine that builds everything is the same engine that prevents him from enjoying any of it.

That might be the most important thing anyone has ever said about the cost of extraordinary achievement. The tool that builds the future is the same tool that makes the present uninhabitable.

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

"I believe ordinary people can choose to be extraordinary."

—Elon Musk