Elon Musk's Speech Will Leave You SPEECHLESS | Elon Musk Motivation

so what what advice do i have for
college graduates interested in getting
involved in the spheres
you've tapped into well certainly i'd
invite you to
apply for a job at solar city or tesla
or
spacex if that doesn't work for whatever
reason then i guess
apply to jobs at other companies in that
arena or try starting
a company the space business is quite
it's quite hard to start a company in
the space business because it's
such a capital intensive business so it
may be better to do something
in solar power or if you're going to do
it in cars do it in
as kind of a component supplier for cars
or something like that
if you study engineering and you figure
out how to design new things
then it's relatively easy to start a
company
you just need to get a few like-minded
people with you
how did you get the expertise to be the
chief technology officer of a rocket
ship
company um well i do have a physics
background that's helpful as a
foundation
and then i read a lot of books and
talked to a lot of a lot of smart people
you know i think my sort of drive to get
it done is somewhat disconnected from
hope enthusiasm or anything else i just
actually just don't care about hope
or enthusiasm motivation just
give it everything i've got irrespective
of what the circumstances may be
you just keep going and get it done what
is the one thing that has surprised you
about your life
oh one thing wow well i certainly i'm
surprised by the whole thing honestly
i certainly didn't expect to be to be uh
for any of these things to happen
honestly i know i wanted to be involved
in technology um
and in fact the only reason i started a
company back in 95 an internet company
was because
i couldn't get it there were only a few
internet companies and i couldn't get a
job at any of them
i tried to get a job at netscape and
sent my resume and i tried hanging out
in the lobby but i was too shy to talk
to anyone
and and then i was like okay well i
guess i'll have to start a company
because i can't get a job anywhere
i wouldn't say i'm fearless in fact i i
think i fear
i feel fear quite strongly but i if the
if what we're doing isn't for what you
know what i'm doing is i think is
important enough then i just
uh override the fear i think also people
tend to overweight risk
on a personal level it's one thing if
you've got you know a mortgage to pay
and kids support and that if you were to
deviate from
your job that well how you're going to
feed your family and pay the rent
okay that's understandable but let's say
you're young and you're just
coming out of college or coming out of
high school or whatever the
what what are you what do you risk you
know you're not going to stop i mean
it's it's really certainly not in any
kind of modern economy it's
so easy to earn enough money just to
live somewhere and eat food
so if you don't know what are they only
afraid of they're mostly afraid of
failure i think but people should be
less risk averse
when there's not much at risk
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
um i came to the conclusion that if if
we can advance
the the 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
what drives you what what is it that
when you wake up in the morning
do you see a problem and you want to
solve it
i think the the thing that drives me is
that uh i want to be able to think about
the future
and we feel good about that that
you know we're doing what we can to have
the future be
be as good as possible to be inspired by