埃隆·馬斯克給你的建議:努力工作、專注、不要隨大流、趁著年輕,勇於冒險!

隆·馬斯克(Elon Musk)是矽谷最具傳奇色彩的人物,他是發明家、創業家和億萬富豪,他跟喬布斯一樣都被稱為“改變世界的科技狂人”。馬斯克在南非長大,畢業於沃頓商學院,來到加州開了一家公司,被合併到另一家公司,之後他又出售了PayPal公司,然後他成為了特斯拉汽車公司和SpaceX的CEO。

埃隆·馬斯克給你的建議:努力工作、專注、不要隨大流、趁著年輕,勇於冒險!

2014年南加州大學畢業演講中,馬斯克給了同學們四點建議,分別是:

努力工作、專注、不要隨大流、趁著年輕,勇於冒險。

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2014年南加州大學畢業演講(中文附後):

So, I’ve got about apparently I’ve got about five to six minutes to say the most useful things I can think of。

I’m gonna do my best。

It was suggested that I distill things down to 3 items。

I think I’ll go with four。

And I’ll try, I think, I think these are pretty important ones。

Some of it may kinda sound like, well you’ve heard them before。

But, you know, worth reemphasizing。

I think the first is, you need to work, if you, depending on how well you want to do,

particularly if you want to start a company, you need to work super hard。

So what is super hard mean?

Well, when my brother and I were starting our first company, instead of getting an apartment,

we just rented a small office and we slept on the couch and we showered in the YMCA。

We’re so hard up that we had just one computer。

So the website was up during the day, and I was coding at night。

7 days a week, all the time。

And I, sort of briefly had a girlfriend in that period and in order to be with me,

she had to sleep in the office。

So, work hard, like, every waking hour。

That’s the thing I would say, particularly if you’re starting a company。

And I mean, if you do the simple math, you say like somebody else is working 50 hours a week and

you’re working 100, you’ll get twice as done, as much done, in the course of the year as the other company。

The other thing I’d say is that if you’re creating a company, or if you’re joining a company,

the most important thing is to attract great people。

So either be with, join a group that’s amazing, that you really respect。

Or, if you’re building a company, you’ve got to gather great people。

I mean, all a company is is a group of people that have gathered together to create a product or service。

So depending upon how talented and hard working that group is,

and to the degree in which they are focused cohesively in a good direction,

that will determine the success of the company。

So, do everything you can to gather great people, if you’re creating a company。

Then, I’d say focus on signal over noise。

A lot of companies get confused。

They spend a lot of money on things that don’t actually make the product better。

So, for example, at Tesla, we’ve never spent any money on advertising。

We’ve put all the money into R and D and manufacturing and design to try and make the car as good as possible。

And, I think that’s the way to go。 For any given company, keep thinking about,

“Are, these efforts that people are expending, are they resulting in a better product or service?“

And if they’re not, stop those efforts。

And then the final thing is, is to sort of, don’t just follow the trend。

So, you may have heard me say that it’s good to thinking terms of the physics approach, the first principles。

With is, rather than reasoning by analogy,

you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine, and then you reason up from there。

And this is a good way to figure out if something really makes sense, or is it just what everybody else is doing。

It’s hard to think that way, you can’t think that way about everything。

It takes a lot of effort。 But if you’re trying to do something new, it’s the best way to thing。

And that framework was developed by physicists to figure out counter intuitive things, like quantum mechanics。

It’s really a powerful, powerful method。

And anyways, so that’s, and then the final thing I would encourage you to do is now is the time to take risks。

You don’t have kids, you’re obligations, well! Some of you… Hahaha, you probably don’t have kids。

But as you get older, your obligations start to increase。

So, and, once you have a family, you start taking risks not just for yourself, but for your family as well。

It gets harder to do things that might not work out。 So now is the time to do that。

Before you have those obligations。 So I would encourage you to take risks now, and to do something bold。

You won’t regret it。 Thank you。。。。

。。。I don’t know if it was helpful。 Great。

埃隆·馬斯克給你的建議:努力工作、專注、不要隨大流、趁著年輕,勇於冒險!

謝謝大家,我只有很短的幾分鐘,我會努力利用好這僅有的時間。在這裡我想與大家分享四件重要的事情。其中一些聽起來可能像名言警句,但是經歷告訴我,它們確實實用。

第一點對於要創業的年輕人非常重要,你需要非常努力地去工作。努力工作意味著什麼?當我弟弟和我一起創立Zip2的時候,我們沒有購置任何房產作為工作的地方,反而在一間又小又普通的辦公室裡開始我們的事業,我們大部分時間都花費在那個小小的沙發上。我們互相討論想法,當時我們只有一臺電腦,白天需要用電腦運營網頁,編碼只能在晚上進行。我們每週7天每天24個小時幾乎都在工作。當時我有一個女朋友,她為了跟我在一起不得不睡在辦公室的沙發上。如果你要快速成立自己的公司,努力工作是必須的。你自己做一個很簡單的數學計算,別人工作50個小時,但是你工作100個小時,你會比別人多幹掉兩倍的工作。

另外一點我想講的是,如果你成立了自己的公司或正在管理一個公司,吸引優秀的人和你一起工作也是非常重要的。一個人要不就是加入一個精英匯聚尊重人才的公司,要不就是和一群烏合之眾工作。企業的成功大部分情況下都是一群優秀的人匯聚到一起做成了一個偉大的產品。不論這群人多麼有才,他們必須同心協力專注在一個正確的產品方向上,才能造就巨大的成功。因此,創業者需要用盡一切手段去吸引優秀的人才。

然後,我想將話題轉向如何去判斷企業是否走在正確的道路上。很多人感到困惑,他們花的錢並沒有讓他們的產品變得更好,舉一個例子,在特斯拉,我們從不在廣告上花錢,我們把所有的錢都投在了產品研發及更好的產品設計上,我們盡全力把我們的車做的儘可能的好。我認為這是最好的出路。所以,如果你想建立一個公司,你要不斷地思考,你們作出的這些努力是否使得你們的產品或者服務變得更好。如果沒有, 就不要再做這些事情了。

除此之外我還想說,不要單一地跟著所謂的大趨勢走。從物理學第一原理的角度來講,並不是透過類比去論證,而是透過所有你認為最本質的元素去推論。這樣一來你可以分辨出哪些是你應該做的,哪些只是你跟隨別人的腳步在做的。當然,你不可能面面俱到,你要付出很多努力。但是,如果你想嘗試新的事物,這是最好的辦法。就象物理學家研究量子力學那樣去思考問題,這是一個很強大的方法。

最後我想說的是,是時候去冒個險了。你現在沒有孩子或者你可能沒有孩子,隨著你變老,你的職責在增多。一旦你有了家庭,你就不是單單在拿自己冒險,而是拿你的家庭去冒險,去嘗試那些可能失敗的事情會變得越來越難。所以,現在就去冒險吧,在你擁有那些義務之前,我非常提倡你們去冒個險。

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