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The Greatest Motivational Speech of Elon Musk!!! · Elon Musk Thinking

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  Speaker 1: The greatest motivational speech of Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 2: When you had that third failure in a row, did
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  Speaker 2: you think I need to pack this in ever? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: I don't ever give up. I mean I'd have to
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  Speaker 1: be dead or completely incapacitated. Work like hell. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you just have to put in, you know, eighty hour
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  Speaker 1: eighty one hundred hour weeks every week. All those things
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  Speaker 1: improve the odds of success, Okay. I mean if other
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  Speaker 1: people are putting in forty hour work weeks and you're
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  Speaker 1: putting in one hundred hour work weeks, then even if
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  Speaker 1: you're doing the same thing, you know that in one
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  Speaker 1: year you will achieve what they achieve. You will achieve
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  Speaker 1: in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.
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  Speaker 1: You need to work super hot. So what does super
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  Speaker 1: heart mean. Well, when my brother and I were starting
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  Speaker 1: our first company, instead of getting an apartment, we just
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  Speaker 1: rented a small office and we slept on the couch
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  Speaker 1: and we showered the YMCA and we're so hot up.
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  Speaker 1: We had just one computer, so the website was up
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  Speaker 1: during the day and I was coding at night, seven
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  Speaker 1: days a week all the time. So briefly had a
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  Speaker 1: go friend in that period, and in order to be
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  Speaker 1: with me, chef to sleep in the office, so I
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  Speaker 1: work hard, like every waking hour. That's the thing I
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  Speaker 1: would I would say if you, particularly if you're starting
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  Speaker 1: a company, and I mean, if you do simple maths,
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  Speaker 1: say like okay, if somebody else is working fifty hours
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  Speaker 1: and you're working one hundred, you'll get twice as done
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  Speaker 1: as much done in the course of a year as
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  Speaker 1: the other company. I think when I was I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if five or six or something, I thought I
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  Speaker 1: was insane.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think you were insane?
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  Speaker 1: Because it was clear that other people did not. Their
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  Speaker 1: mind wasn't exploding with ideas all the time.
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  Speaker 3: They were an express it. They weren't talking about it
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  Speaker 3: all that and you realize by the time you're five
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  Speaker 3: or six, like, oh, they're probably not even getting this
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  Speaker 3: thing that I'm getting.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was just strange. It was like, hmm, I'm strange.
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  Speaker 1: When I was young, I I I didn't really know
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  Speaker 1: what I was going to do. When when I got older,
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  Speaker 1: people kept asking me and and but but then eventually
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  Speaker 1: I thought that the idea of inventing things would be
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  Speaker 1: would be really cool. And the reason I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was because I read a quote from otse Clock which
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  Speaker 1: said that a eufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really true. If you think if you go back, say,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred years, the things that we take for granted
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  Speaker 1: today would be you'd be burned at the stake for
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  Speaker 1: you know, being able to fly, that's crazy, being able
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  Speaker 1: to see over long distances, being able to communicate, having
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  Speaker 1: effectively with the internet a group mind of sorts, and
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  Speaker 1: having access to all the world's information instantly from almost
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  Speaker 1: anywhere on the earth. This is stuff that really would
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  Speaker 1: be magic. It would be considered magic in times past.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I think it actually goes beyond that, because
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  Speaker 1: there are many things that we take for granted today
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  Speaker 1: that weren't even imagined in times past. They weren't even
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  Speaker 1: in the realm of magic, So it actually goes beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought, well, you know, if I can do
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  Speaker 1: some of those things, basically, if I can advance technology,
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  Speaker 1: then that's like magic, and that would be really cool.
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  Speaker 1: You have to apply a lot of hours to actual working,
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  Speaker 1: actually working, So the way I generally not it is
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  Speaker 1: I'll be working at SpaceX on Monday, and then Monday
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  Speaker 1: night flight to Bay Area, spent Tuesday and Wednesday in
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  Speaker 1: the Barrier, then a Tesla, and then fly back on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday night. Spent Thursday and Friday at SpaceX in in
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  Speaker 1: the last several months, and I would fly back here
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  Speaker 1: on a Saturday. I either spend Saturday and Sunday at
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  Speaker 1: Tesla or spend Saturday at Tesla and Sunday at SpaceX.
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  Speaker 1: I was living in the in the in the factory
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  Speaker 1: in Fremont and the one in Nevada for three years straight.
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  Speaker 1: It was my primary residence. O kidding literally, I actually
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  Speaker 1: slept slept on a couch at one point on a
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  Speaker 1: in a tent on the roof and then but for
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  Speaker 1: a while there I was just sleeping under my desk,
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  Speaker 1: which is out in the open in the factory, and
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  Speaker 1: for an important reason, and it was damn uncomfortable sleeping
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  Speaker 1: on that floor, and always when I woke up, i'd
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  Speaker 1: smell like metal dust. But actually I stopped using the
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  Speaker 1: couch in the in because it's a little conference room
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  Speaker 1: and a couch there. I stopped using the couch and
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  Speaker 1: I just slept on the floor under my desk so
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  Speaker 1: that the so during shift change, the entire team could
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  Speaker 1: see me if they think that the sort of their
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  Speaker 1: leader is off somewhere having a good time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: drinking my ties on a tropical island, which I could
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  Speaker 1: definitely have been doing, have been doing, and would much
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  Speaker 1: have preferred to do. But the thing is that since
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  Speaker 1: the team could see me sleeping on the floor during
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  Speaker 1: shift change, they knew I was there, and that made
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  Speaker 1: a huge difference, and then they gave it their role.
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  Speaker 1: Like one of the most difficult choices I have ever
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  Speaker 1: faced in life was in two thousand and eight, and
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  Speaker 1: I think I had maybe thirty million dollars left or
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  Speaker 1: thirty dollars left in two thousand and eight. I had
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  Speaker 1: two choices. I could put it all into one company
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  Speaker 1: and then the other company would definitely die, or split
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  Speaker 1: it between the two companies. But if I split it
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  Speaker 1: between the two companies, then both might die. And when
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  Speaker 1: you put your blood, sweat and tears into creating something thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a child. And so it's like which one
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  Speaker 1: am I going to let one start to death? I
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  Speaker 1: can bring myself to do it, so I split the
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  Speaker 1: money between two. Fortunately, thank goodness that work came through.
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  Speaker 4: Well, your little naive, when you thought I'll just like
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  Speaker 4: an easily build build an electric car and a rocket.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think it would be easy, Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they would probably fail. But you know, like
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  Speaker 1: creating a company is almost like having a child. So
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  Speaker 1: it's sort of like how do you say your child
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  Speaker 1: should not have bud.
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  Speaker 4: So once you have the company, you have to feed
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  Speaker 4: it and nurse it and take care of it, of
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  Speaker 4: it even if it ruins you. Yeah, but wasn't there
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  Speaker 4: wasn't tough times in two thousand and eight end of
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  Speaker 4: two thousand and eight. How did you get through that
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  Speaker 4: period of crisis?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? We just break for a second, of course. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Tesla really faced this sphere threat of death
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  Speaker 1: due to the Model three production round. Essentially the company
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  Speaker 1: was bleeding money like crazy, and and just if we
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  Speaker 1: didn't solve these problems in the very short period of time,
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  Speaker 1: we would die. And it was extremely difficult to solve them.
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  Speaker 3: How close to death did you come? Were there within
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  Speaker 3: single legit weeks? Twenty two hours a day or like
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  Speaker 3: I seventdays a week sleeping in the factory.
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  Speaker 1: I worked every from the I worked in the oaks,
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  Speaker 1: in the paint shop, general simply body shop.
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever worry about yourself imploding, like it's just
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  Speaker 3: too much.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, no one should put this many hours into work.
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  Speaker 1: This is not good. People should not work this hard.
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  Speaker 1: They should not do this. This is so it was
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  Speaker 1: very painful, painful, and more tense. It's because my earth's
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  Speaker 1: my brain in my heart.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there are American heroes who don't like this idea.
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  Speaker 2: The al Armstrong gene cernon have both testified against commercial
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  Speaker 2: spaceflight and the way that you're developing it, and I
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  Speaker 2: wonder what you think of that.
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  Speaker 1: I was very sad to see that because those guys are, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, those guys heroes of mine. So it's really tough. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I wish they would come and visit and see the
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  Speaker 1: hard way that were during camp, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: would change their mind.
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  Speaker 2: They inspired you to do this, didn't they Yes, And
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  Speaker 2: to see them casting stones in your direction.
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  Speaker 1: It's difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Did you expect them to cheer you on?
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  Speaker 1: So they're hoping they would well for SpaceX, first three
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  Speaker 1: launches failed and were just barely able to scrape together
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  Speaker 1: enough parts and money to do the fourth launch. That
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  Speaker 1: fourth launch had failed, we would have been dead. So
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  Speaker 1: multiple failures along the way, I tried very hard to
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  Speaker 1: get the right expertise in for post space X. I
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  Speaker 1: tried hard to find a great chief engineer for the rocket,
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  Speaker 1: but the good chief engineers wouldn't join, and the bad ones, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's no point in hiring them. So I ended up
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  Speaker 1: being chief engineer at the rocket. So if I could
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  Speaker 1: have found somebody better, then we would have maybe had
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  Speaker 1: less than three failures.
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  Speaker 2: How did you get the expertise to be the chief
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  Speaker 2: technology officer of a rocket ship company?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I do have a physics background that's helpful as
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  Speaker 1: a foundation, and then I read a lot of books
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  Speaker 1: and talked to a lot of smart people yourself taught. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for listening. See you in the next episode.