Or, like Elon, you can believe so much in yourself and your goals that you invest your share of the PayPal fortune into Tesla, then SpaceX, both of which you have no actual education or experience in, then have the brightest minds in both realms – including your heroes – reject your requests to join you as your view of the future is so fantastic they don’t want to risk their reputations, forcing you to literally become a rocket scientist and mechanical/electrical engineer and work alongside those that will, in fulfilling your vision.
While living in their Silicon Valley office, the Musk brothers slept on the floor in shifts as they only had one computer. While one manned it by the day while the website was up, the other coded at night while down. Showering at the YMCA, they worked every waking hour daily, a habit Elon still finds hard to break. He rationalizes with a smile that he gets many times as much done faster than his competitors and detractors do, and notes Tesla doesn’t spend on ads. Why bother, when product quality speaks volumes, via X?
Eschewing hope, enthusiasm and motivation, he does what he does simply because he wants to. In fact, in his mind, he simply has to. It’s who and what he is, namely someone that has something to do. He notes that if someone is the type of person that needs inspiring words, they shouldn’t start a company – any company – and certainly not two. I concur wholeheartedly.
When asked about how he overcame the fact that he couldn’t hire any of the best aeronautical (and automotive) engineers in the world – and to hire anything less than the best was a non-starter, especially considering the life and death importance of getting it right, every time, in SpaceX’s industry – he notes that since he built rockets as a kid, he determined he’d just have to build them himself again as an adult.
His chaotic purchase of the aforementioned X, support of cryptocurrency and polarizing positions on everything from culture wars to the Israeli-Palestinian one, have ensured multitudes either love or loathe him. Regardless, like his equally loved and loathed business rival and fellow would-be trillionaire, Jeff Bezos, he’s earned it all.
I promised myself in creating Make More Monie that it would not be one of those websites that pushed or promoted any new age hokum. There will be no references of or to the cosmic soul or its ancient astral consciousness on it, nor will you ever find on any of our media promises of harmonic transfigurations, transformations, or suggestions of coming convergences resulting in the singularity of oneness.
What you will find is posts like this one – but not many more – featuring or focusing on those now-household names that have indeed become such, due to their having extraordinarily done what they have incredibly done.
My reasoning for this is because the Make More Monie mission is to provide very direct counsel, using simple terms in providing ‘fun’ancial mentorship. I only featured these famous individuals in this five part post as a quick study to show that despite all of the words spoken by Matthew in his speech covered in parts one, two and three, none of those words provided any details illustrating how hard it is to succeed in life, nor (obviously) how fortune favors some simply for how they look or how they may have happened to be in the right place at the right time – or both – which is fine. It just isn’t likely to happen for the rest of us.
Conversely, Arnold, Sylvester and Elon, when recounting their experiences in providing inspiration and motivation, also provide us with the actual course they charted and endured through their own (and others) hard (and smart) work, relying on their belief in themselves, not any other entity, real or imagined.
In short, they never use vague language when speaking about their success and how they acquired it, and I’m pretty certain that none of them have ever credited anything like morphic resonance or quantum mysticism, nor any traditional/non-traditional spiritual beliefs, if they ever had any, for having won in life.
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