Elon Musk is not perfect - but he is my inspiration. Thomas Edison too
It took me 30 years to understand life. Then I realized that science is the only way to know what is true and what is false, and that Socrates was right - the only thing humans can know is that everything they know is false. Religions, nationalities, politics, prejudices, new opinions - everything is wrong. We are wrong about everything.
As Einstein said - "2 things have no end - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe"
I figured it out, and I still haven't figured out what I want to do with my life. I had a time when I said that "music is not something in life, music is life itself". I used to play and sing Bob Dylan on the streets of Tel Aviv for several years.
But music is not life itself either.
I never saw movies. I was and still am enslaved to the journey of discovery of life, and movies are a waste of time. But I watched documentaries because they taught me real things about the universe. Then I saw a movie about Adam Neumann, and I immediately realized that he is a psychopath and I don't want to be like him or learn from him, and the next day I saw a documentary about Elon Musk and my mind was blown.
He is not perfect, but I learned from him that hard work is the way to achieve things and live a meaningful life. And I learned from him that there are no rules, just make things happen. And I learned from him that even though I grew up in a poor and unconnected society, if I just start on my own and be really good - things will happen.
I needed another year and a half to process it. Because it's not that simple. For example, if you sit at home and work hard on your project, you will not succeed. Because you have to work with other people. And you have to work on the right thing. And you should not waste time. And you really need the right things, but you really have to work hard. But don't work hard for the sake of working hard, but work to with a clear practical goals.
Thomas Edison wasn't perfect either, and frankly I need to research his character more, but his sayings like:
- Success is 1 percent talent and 99 percent hard work
- I work 18 hours a day and I've been doing it for 40 years
And like the story, or the legend, that he tried 2000 types of materials before he found the way to make the bulb.
The difference between an engineer who has real enthusiasm and an ordinary programmer is not the diff cetween 100 to 110 percent, which comes from an extra hour or two of work a day. The difference is 600 percent, because the engineer who truly loves what he does dreams about it at night, and takes the job to the weekend, and stays late at night, and his whole mind is full of technology and the project, and he approaches everything with great energy, and he is the one who will eventually find the solutions that the normal developer will never find.
You understand, Elon mask he’s not just a businessman man that know just how to talk, he is actually the chief engineer of SpaceX.
As far as humanoid robots are concerned, My long-term enthusiasm is what can makes me the 600 percent guy. And this is what I learned from Elon Musk.