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发帖数: 4400 | 1 https://www.quora.com/How-did-Elon-Musk-learn-enough-about-rockets-to-create
-and-run-SpaceX/answer/Jim-Cantrell?ref=forbes
I helped Elon start the company and all of these answers are spot on. He
still has my book on rocket propulsion.....
What I found from working with Elon is that he starts by defining a goal and
he puts a lot of effort into understanding what that goal is and why it is
a good and valid goal. His goal, as I see it, has not changed from the day
he first called me in August of 2001. I still hear it in his speeches. His
goal was to make mankind a multi planetary species and to do that he had to
first solve the transportation problem.
Once he has a goal, his next step is to learn as much about the topic at
hand as possible from as many sources as possible. He is by far the single
smartest person that I have ever worked with ... period. I can't estimate
his IQ but he is very very intelligent. And not the typical egg head kind of
smart. He has a real applied mind. He literally sucks the knowledge and
experience out of people that he is around. He borrowed all of my college
texts on rocket propulsion when we first started working together in 2001.
We also hired as many of my colleagues in the rocket and spacecraft business
that were willing to consult with him. It was like a gigantic spaceapalooza
. At that point we were not talking about building a rocket ourselves, only
launching a privately funded mission to Mars. I found out later that he was
talking to a bunch of other people about rocket designs and collaborating on
some spreadsheet level systems designs for launchers. Once our dealings
with the Russians fell apart, he decided to build his own rocket and this
was the genesis of SpaceX.
So I am going to suggest that he is successful not because his visions are
grand, not because he is extraordinarily smart and not because he works
incredibly hard. All of those things are true. The one major important
distinction that sets him apart is his inability to consider failure. It
simply is not even in his thought process. He cannot conceive of failure and
that is truly remarkable. It doesn't matter if its going up against the
banking system (Paypal), going up against the entire aerospace industry (
SpaceX) or going up against the US auto industry (Tesla). He can't imagine
NOT succeeding and that is a very critical trait that leads him ultimately
to success. He and I had very similar upbringings, very similar interests
and very similar early histories. He was a bit of a loner and so was I. He
decided to start a software company at age 13. I decided to design and build
my own stereo amplifier system at age 13. Both of us succeeded at it. We
both had engineers for fathers and were extremely driven kids. What
separated us, I believe, was his lack of even being able to conceive failure
. I know this because this is where we parted ways at SpaceX. We got to a
point where I could not see it succeeding and walked away. He didn't and
succeeded. I have 25 years experience building space hardware and he had
none at the time. So much for experience.
I recently wrote an op-ed piece for Space News where I also suggest that his
ruthlessly efficient way to deploy capital is another great reason for his
success. He can almost smell the right way through a problem and he drives
his staff and his organization hard to achieve it. The results speak for
themselves. The article is here .
In the end I think that we are seeing a very fundamental shift in the way
our world takes on the big challenges facing humanity and Elon's Way as I
call it will be considered the tip of the spear. My hat's off to the man. | l******t
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发帖数: 14359 | 3 一个有高瞻远瞩的人，如果纠缠于汽车零件组装安全管理细节，
估计可能就报废了，就好比要扫天下的英雄天天要打扫每个房间，
还要扫得干净，不干净就要挨骂受惩罚，每天置身于清洁工的
具体工作里，是不可能去扫天下的。马思科的电车已经搞出来了，
怎么量产降低成本完全可以让汽车管理专业人才去打理，既然
要扫天下，就不能天天忙着刷马桶，马桶再可爱也不能天天抱着。
如果马思科不是把特斯拉当成赚钱的机器，真心想搞好电车，
就应该学会放手。一个有高瞻远瞩的人，如果钻进了牛角尖，也可能
变成偏执狂，一事无成，毕竟妄想家要比理想家多的多。 |
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