Musk: I don't expect others to recognize me

People like to classify Elon Musk and Apple founder Steve Jobs as "tech greats in the business world." However, as Musk's ex-wife Justine said, "Extreme success requires extreme personality, but such success comes at the expense of other aspects."

On this road, they cannot care about the doubts of the outside world, and will not pay attention to the ridicule of others. Most people will not understand them until they have accomplished something, and then they may gradually be recognized and accepted. Even so, the criticism and resistance they have to endure are unimaginable.

Looking back at the past 20 years, many of Musk's remarks and ideas have been ridiculed as "dreamy dreams". Even after he achieved some success and constantly refuted those conspiracy theorists, he was still misunderstood and doubted. In essence, the perseverance and motivation that supported him to persevere did not come from others' recognition of his success, but from his determination to pursue his dreams and the belief in his bones that "life is endless, and the pursuit of dreams will never stop".

"Adventurer" starts with the free will of the family

Musk is most famous for founding SpaceX, a private company that explores Mars immigration, in an environment where the aerospace industry is entirely controlled by the state. He is also committed to developing a reusable interstellar spacecraft to take a hundred passengers to the red planet a million miles away. Musk is even determined to build a fleet of interstellar spacecraft to make humans an interstellar species.

These dreams are too surreal, and people can only empathize with them when watching movies. In reality, almost no one dares to pursue this dream, but Musk really did it.

In the first half of 2021 alone, SpaceX has sent nearly 900 microsatellites into orbit, almost twice the number of satellites launched worldwide in any year before 2020. As of June 30, SpaceX has completed 36 orbital launches and 35 Falcon 9 rocket booster landings in the past 12 months, losing only one booster in the process.

Musk's plans, which were once dismissed as "crazy", are being carried out one by one in an orderly manner. In terms of the gene of adventure, the Creator obviously "favors" Musk. For Musk, things that many people think are "crazy" are like breathing. He also admitted that his extraordinary personality comes from his grandfather.

Musk's grandfather had multiple identities as a farmer, cowboy, rancher, doctor, aviator, political commentator, explorer, sharpshooter, and racer. After owning a single-engine private plane, he often took his wife and put his young children in the back seat of the plane - or to be more precise, "tied" to the back seat, and traveled all over North America. After settling in South Africa, the family started a crazy and brilliant adventure career. Musk's grandparents not only became the only private pilots to fly across Africa and Australia in a single-engine plane; in the car rally, they also defeated the professional drivers of the Ford team and won the championship; they even went deep into the jungle and desert to find the lost ancient city. Musk's grandfather's adventurous spirit and unswerving persistence are also like a code engraved in Musk's genes.

Musk's ex-wife revealed that Musk spends almost all his waking hours working, and the time he spends with his wife does not exceed 10 hours a week. In addition, when the world was deeply involved in the "real estate speculation fever", Musk sold all his properties last year and recently lived in a prefabricated house worth about $50,000 and only 37 square meters in Texas, USA. When asked by the media why he sold the house, Musk replied: "Mars or the house, what is more important?" He explained that allocating time to build a house is not a good use of time. Rocket development is more important to get us to Mars and help us solve sustainable energy.

Energy "fantasy" continues to break through for sustainable development of mankind

While building rockets to take humans to their "Mars home", Musk is also deeply anxious about the current living environment and energy depletion problems of mankind.

Musk kept thinking about how to make humans use the existing energy on Earth for a longer period of time before opening the "immigration to Mars" channel. In other words, how to avoid the "foreseeable" bleak future? Therefore, converting solar energy, a clean energy, into electricity, and then using electricity to replace traditional fuel, becoming a clean power for human transportation, became the reason and goal of Tesla's existence.

Musk proposed a long time ago that solar energy will become the main source of clean energy for mankind in the future: "This ubiquitous nuclear fusion reactor is hanging in the sky. Even if you do nothing, it will be on there. It will light up on time every day and release incredible energy." Therefore, Tesla not only provides everyone with high-quality pure electric vehicles, but is also actively expanding its energy storage business, launching products such as Powerwall and photovoltaic roofs, thus forming an entire clean energy cycle ecological chain from solar energy utilization, to energy storage, and then to energy utilization, solving the drawbacks of traditional fossil fuels from the source of generation, and promoting the transformation of energy structure to renewable clean energy.

When faced with "competitors" emerging like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, Musk not only welcomed their success, but also sent sincere encouragement. When NIO announced that its 100,000 vehicles rolled off the production line, Musk tweeted: "This is a difficult milestone." When Daimler announced that it would stop developing internal combustion engine models and instead focus on producing electric vehicles and batteries, Musk responded on Twitter that electric vehicles are the future direction of development and congratulated his competitors for determining this development path.

"Borderless" is what Musk has always insisted on.

"Either die peacefully or live splendidly!" Musk once told the media with tears in his eyes about the entire process of building his rocket.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.