Somebody has to be the richest person on the planet.
The fact that it’s the guy who popularized electric cars, made rockets reusable, and is working on curing blindness and paraplegia as a side quest seems fair to me.
The richest guy on Earth SHOULD be the guy making cutting edge cars and rockets instead of dudes who sell purses and perfumes or dudes who run investment firms or dudes who made Facebook.
If you're a naturally anxious person, I recommend pursuing a high stress career path where at least you'll be compensated for anxiety you're going to have anyways.
It’s actually interesting that Elon Musk is the richest man in the world and still carries himself like the awkward little kid at lunch who doesn’t know where to sit. Most rich powerful men walk into rooms with entourages acting like superstars wanting everyone to look at them. Elon walks in looking like a fish out of water at the wrong party wondering why he even showed up while probably thinking about self driving algorithms while everyone else is socializing. There’s something weirdly real and endearing about it, like all the fame and attention just feels unnecessary to him.
There was no award when Newton discovered three laws of forces, nor when da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.
There was no Grammy for Beethoven or Chopin, nor a Nobel Prize in Literature for Homer.
Masterpieces do not seek transient trophies but aim to be timeless.
Key to winning:
Choose to be positive and grateful. Then, just keep at it. Time is the great compounder and will do the rest.
So many people just don’t have the discipline to stay positive and grateful. Then time compounds the bitterness instead.
Bro to bro: Start thinking of your future very seriously. Be overly curious, accept you know very little, be selfish to learn new stuff & don’t get into stupid office politics. The world is very cruel to people who are not doing new things everyday. You will become irrelevant.