Elon Musk’s Advice For Young People
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
Elon Musk (Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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Periodically, I would receive messages from young people who are trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives, in light of our fast changing world. In this post, I would like to share some advice from our earthly friend, Elon Musk, in the video “Elon Musk’s Ultimate Advice for Students & College Grads-HOW TO SUCCEED IN LIFE“, below:
“Don’t just follow the trend….that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles which is rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there. And this is a good way to figure out if something really makes sense or if it’s just what everybody else is doing.”
“People should be less risk-averse when there’s not much at risk. What is education like? You’re basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain. It’s actually amazingly bad in conventional education. It’s like it shouldn’t be like this huge chore…like the more you can gamify the process of learning the better. I always had sort of a slight existential crisis because I was trying to figure out what does it all mean? Like: what’s the purpose of things? And I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world…If we can do things that expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened and that’s really the only way forward.”
“The thing that drives me is that I want to be able to think about the future and feel good about that, so that, you know we’re doing what we can to have the future be as good as possible, to be inspired by what is likely to happen and to look forward to the next day. So that’s what really really drives me, is trying to figure out how do we, how do we make sure that things are great? I’m gonna be so and that’s the unlined principle behind Tesla and SpaceX. I think it’s pretty important that we accelerate the transition to sustainable generation and consumption of energy. It’s inevitable, but it’s-it matters if it happens sooner or later. And the SpaceX is about helping make life multi-planetary and do what we can to continue the dream of Apollo and ultimately make contribution to life becoming multi-planetary.”
“America is a nation of explorers. People came here from other parts of the world that you know chose to give up the known in favor of the unknown. So I think exploration like the United States is a distillation of the human spirit of exploration.”
“It really depends on the stakes. If the stakes are high, if it’s really important, then one should, then I, you know overcome the fear and just do it anyway….drive overrides fear, but I feel the fear. It’s kind of annoying, I wish I didn’t..I wish I felt it less.”
Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker More about the community at www.WindermereSun.com
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