hey guys what's up it's Charlie here today we're going to be looking at Elon
Musk's top 10 rules for success I am sure we all know of Elon Musk he's the
man behind companies such as Tesla SpaceX and Solar City and some don't
know this but he also made PayPal all of this success has led to Elon Musk
acquiring a net worth of twenty six billion dollars but Elon actually has
some theories as to why only one percent of people succeed in life and he says
these 10 rules he sticks to and they guide his life so before we blast off in
a SpaceX rocket or take off in a Tesla why not subscribe and press the
notification bell to coming up first we have be the dumbest guy in the room
obviously Elon Musk is a super genius so why on earth would he want to be the
dumbest person in the room and is that even possible when everyone's good at
different things Elon Musk is a great businessman an
engineer but there's always someone who knows more than you about rocket science
or cars and Elon Musk knows this and does not shy away from it some leaders
want to be the smartest person in every room because they're the leader but Elon
Musk knows it's much better to surround yourself with people better than you if
you're the smartest guy in the room then you need to surround yourself with
smarter people that's because if you're the smartest person in that room you're
not going to learn anything from these other people Elon Musk says he builds
companies from ideas and energy but most importantly making connections with very
very smart people for example he started PayPal with Peter Thiel who's also a
tech billionaire so even though it sounds counterintuitive it's much better
to surround yourself with smarter people than you if you're the dumbest guy in
the room then you've surrounded yourself with people you can learn from and when
you're running a car or rocket company it helps to hire people who know a lot
about very very specific things next stop is read to lead they say the
best way to travel in time is to read well nobody believes that more than Elon
Musk what did you read when you were a kid Harry Potter an action book well
Elon Musk read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica as a child Elon Musk read the
entire encyclopedia to absorb as much information as he possibly could and
even though Elon Musk is older now he still does this Elon Musk doesn't just
read social media posts or articles instead he reads lots of books in
fiction and nonfiction of course reading nonfiction books helps you gain a lot of
information for example how to build a rocket or a self-driving car but don't
think that fictional books aren't also very important getting lost in a
fictional book can expand your horizons and give you new insights and ideas so
it's no surprise that some of the world's brightest minds spend a lot of
time reading books Bill Gates says he reads a book every
day also billionaire and once the richest man in the world Warren Buffett
also reads every day too so think about your reading habits and pick books that
will help you out the most for example if you need to improve something about
yourself read a self-help book or if you need to
get some new ideas or inspiration read a fictional book about something amazing
the next rule we have is don't listen to the little man you may be wondering what
I mean by the little man well I don't mean short people
Elon Musk says when you have an idea about something great everyone will try
to tell you not to do it well one of Ellen's rules is to avoid listening to
those who tell you to stop trying Elon said when he made Tesla and SpaceX
some of his best friends tried to discourage him and make him back out of
those companies so is a response he totally cut them off he says he works
very hard to stay away from any negative influences and he even says he's had
issues with his very own father to England's to him but against all odds
Elon followed his rules of success and didn't listen to them
and look where he is now billions of dollars richer and his companies are
thriving so take this advice on yourself and stay away from any negative
influences whether they're friends family or strangers people will always
think small and try and track you down so just try and ignore those people next
up is work for a cause have you noticed that everything Elon Musk does isn't
just to make money if he just wanted to make money he could join a big oil
company but if we look at everything Elon Musk has done he's been working for
a cause but he made PayPal he wanted to make payments cheaper and more secure
when he made Tesla he wanted to get rid of oil which was destroying the world
and with SpaceX he's actually following Stephen Hawking's advice Stephen Hawking
says the world has around 200 years before it becomes uninhabitable Stephen
Hawking's last warning was humans must find another planet and inhabit it and
with SpaceX trying to go to Mars and colonize it that's exactly what Islands
do it remember to work for a cause you don't have to completely change the
world but you should always try and provide real value instead of just
making your own pockets fact Elon Musk has sell himself if you make something
that's high value that's good enough he says stuff doesn't need to change the
world it just has to be good and with pretty much every job you can hope for a
positive cause you do for example if you're a teacher you're helping to build
the next generation and if you're a delivery driver you're helping to save
people's lives by delivering medicine and other things to them so no matter
how small your impact on the world is as long as it's good this helps to build
one amazing earth so adopt this mindset and think about what causes you're
working for next up we have burned the midnight oil Elon Musk is famous for
working a lot he actually works around 100 hours a week between his many
companies but Elon Musk says you don't have to go this hard
Elon says he tries to not make himself feel exhausted
however he has famously slept on the floor of the Tesla factory on many
occasions that's because he was working so much he didn't have enough energy to
go home if you continue at this rate you may get burnt out but the rule here
make sure you always push yourself to do as much as you can don't slack off and
be lazy even if you get tempted to do so and although Elon Musk does burn the
midnight oil and stays up late he does actually remember to get around six
hours of sleep every night doctors say on average we should be
getting around eight hours but many people do get by fine on six or seven
hours really though the rule here is to make sure you always push yourself and
never slack off next up is do something important
Elon Musk says if you believe in something it's likely important so if
you have something you've really believed you have to do then make sure
you get it done this can be something in your career or in your personal life for
example when Elon Musk first invested half of his entire net worth and Tesla
he wasn't sure if it would succeed everyone told him the car company was
going to fail as for the past 100 years every American car company had gone
bankrupt but he believed in his vision which was to make electric cars
attractive and also economical so that's why he got involved in designing
electric cars and making them look amazing he wanted to do this to protect
the environment and make the world a more sustainable place but the main
thing is he actually believed in his idea he doesn't have to be something as
world-changing as making electric cars to the norm instead it could be going
against the likely outcome of failure Elon said he wasn't too worried about
failure when he made Tesla as he believed it was so important the point
is Elon feed out his calling in life and that was to make electric cars
it may sound specific but once he believed in something and he know it's
important then you have to go all out next up we have do what you love ask
yourself a question do you love what you do if you're a doctor do you love saving
lives or if you're an accountant do you love helping people save money
well when asked about career advice Elon Musk will tell you one thing he says
make sure you go into a business or career that you actually like he says
everyone is naturally attracted to some profession you need to find out what
that is and even if you fail at first or experience setbacks do not be
discouraged he says if you genuinely love what you do and you have an
interest in it then you will gravitate towards it and improve you don't have to
be a master in it when you first start but if you really
like it you'll get good if you don't like what you do then you won't be
focused enough and you will be easily distracted this will mean you're pretty
much set up for failure as you don't actually enjoy doing what you do every
day he also recommends people do not just go for the money for example if you
have two options a career you really don't like which pays a lot in a career
you do life which doesn't pay much he says you should always pick the career
you actually like that doesn't pay as much that's because he says as corny as
it sounds money really does not buy you happiness and with a net worth of 26
billion dollars he should know next stop is look for
problem solvers once somebody are stealin masks how to hire people for
their company he responded by simply saying look for people who can solve
problems he actually has a way to figure out who's a problem solver and who's not
he asks people questions and sees how they solve them in layers he says people
who solve things at the deepest layers are the ones really solving the problem
whereas those who only solved the problem on a surface level weren't
really that involved so in hiring for your company or looking for people to
surround yourself with look for those who can solve a problem Elon Musk says
there's around 20 big problems every day these companies and if it weren't for
the amazing problem solvers he's hired his companies would have shut down a
long time ago and finally Elon Musk's last rule is
never give up this one kind of sounds like a given guards Elon Musk has a very
unique experience when it comes to never giving up Elon Musk has invested over
ten billion dollars of his own money in things which have failed
SpaceX failed six different missions on mission number seven if it failed that
then the company would need to be shut down amazingly despite this Elon Musk
put billions of his own money into the company and after six fails at the
seventh mission was a success the point is Elon Musk didn't give up
after one failed to fail or six fails he kept going and put all of his money and
resources into something he believed it today's SpaceX is the largest private
producer of rockets in the world and it also receives the most contracts out of
any company from NASA because Elon Musk didn't give up those six previous times
SpaceX Maine changed the entire planet that's right
SpaceX is in the process of colonizing Mars and if professor Stephen Hawking's
final warning before he passed was correct we'll need to live on Mars in a
few hundred years who knows Elon Musk may be the leader of the next planet we
inhabit and it's all thanks to him following these rules that I listed for
you today remember you don't need to change the world and colonize Mars but
I'm pretty sure everyone can use these rules for success in their very own
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