Elon Musk | YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT LIFE THE SAME (Motivational Video)

certainly being focused on something that you're confident will have high value to someone else and just being really rigorous in making that assessment people take too many things as they assume too many things to be true without sufficient basis and in that belief it's very important that people closely analyze what what is supposed to be true try to say it lists lists analyze things from first principles not by not not not by analogy or not by a convention I also 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 if we can advance the knowledge of the world if we can do things that expand the scope and and scale of consciousness then we're better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened and and that's really the only way forward and this this was against the advice of pretty much everyone I talk to but one friend made me sit down and watch a bunch of videos brockett's blowing up let me tell you he wasn't far wrong tough going there in the beginning because I've never built anything physical I mean I both like till model rockets as a kid I never had in physical that can't figure out how to how to do all these things and and bring together the right team of people and and so we we did all that and and then failed three times I think also people tend to overweight risk on a personal level let's say you're young and we're just coming out of college or high school or whatever the whatever what are you what are you risk you know you're not gonna stop people should be less risk-averse when there's not much at risk I wouldn't say I'm fearless in fact I I think I fear I feel fear quite strong if what we're doing isn't for what you know what I'm doing is I think's important enough then I just override the fear trying to build a company and have it succeed it is like eating glass and staring into the abyss sort of quite exciting for the first several months starting a company and then then reality sets in things don't go as well as planned some result signing up the technology of the product isn't working as well as you thought and I think and that can sometimes be compounded by a recession and it could be very very painful for several years so I think frankly the Estonian company advise people to have a high pain tolerance with its like there are many warp more ways to fail than to succeed failure is not a big stigma so it's like if you if you try hard and it doesn't work out that's okay learn from that and you do another company and it's not a big deal but the thing that drives me is that I want to be able to think about the future and you feel good about that to be inspired by what is likely to happen and to look forward to the next day the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking sticking to them versus pursuing some unrealistic dream that didn't actually have merit and it's it's that is a that is a really difficult thing to to tell you can you tell the difference between those two things very rigorous in your self self analysis if you assume things are true by convention which is actually what most people do then had that it's difficult to gain insight into work and how things can be better you want to make sure that you know what the underlying premises are valid and applicable and and then in reaching a conclusion that the conclusion reaching is necessarily driven by the underlying premises and the interconnection between those premises [Music] when I was young I I didn't really know what I was going to do we're not when I got older I read a quote from moths o'clock which said that a especially advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic and and that's really true if you think if you go back say 300 years the things that we take for granted today would be you'd be burned at the stake for I think it actually goes beyond that because there are many things that we take for granted today that weren't even imagined and in times past they weren't even in the realm of magic you had that third failure in a row did you think I need to pack this in though why not I don't ever give up this is the first time in the four half billion year history of Earth that it's been possible to extend life beyond Earth before this it was not possible how long will this window me open it may be open for a long time or maybe open for a short time I think we should be wise to assume that it is open for a short time every waking hour that's that's the thing I would I would say gave somebody else is working 50 hours are you working on hundred you'll get twice as done as much done in the course of a year now is the time to take risk so I would encourage you to take risks now do something bold you won't regret it work like hell I mean just have to put in you know 80 hour 80 100 hour weeks every week [Music] now like when it was difficult choices I have ever faced in life was was in 2008 maybe thirty one dollars left over forty one else left in 2000 I had two choices I could put her all into one company and then the other company would definitely die or splitted 22 think minutes and the split up between two companies then both my time and when you put your blood sweat and tears and to create something the bullies have been it's like a child am I gonna let one starve to death you can bring myself to do it surprised split the money between two forgiveness [Applause] [Music] when something is important enough you do it even though frogs not your vapor we're doing these things that seem unlikely to succeed and we've been fortunate and at least thus far they have succeeded you guys are the magicians of the 21st century you know don't like anything hold you back imagination is the limit and go out there and create some magic [Music]