Elon Musk first wife “Justine Musk”, knows a thing or two about wealth and hard work โ her ex-husband is a founder of PayPal, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and has an estimated net worth of billions. She recently posted a response to a Quora thread asking the question:
โWill I become a billionaire if I am determined to be one and put in all the necessary work required?
โHer answer is โno,โ though she says that the Quora reader is asking the wrong question altogether. โYouโre determined. So what? You havenโt been racing naked through shark-infested waters yet,โ she writes.
โWill you be just as determined when you wash up on some deserted island, disoriented and bloody and ragged and beaten and staring into the horizon with no sign of rescue? โ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ: โShift your focus away from what you want (a billion dollars) and get deeply, intensely curious about what the world wants and needs.
Ask yourself what you have the potential to offer that is so unique and compelling and helpful that no computer could replace you, no one could outsource you, no one could steal your product and make it better and then club you into oblivion (not literally).
Then develop that potential. Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds (say, engineering and business), you can bring them together in a way that will:
- Introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and
- Create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.
The world doesnโt throw a billion dollars at a person because the person wants it or works so hard they feel they deserve it. The world does not care what you want or deserve.
The world gives you money in exchange for something it perceives to be of equal or greater value: something that transforms an aspect of the culture, reworks a familiar story or introduces a new one, alters the way people think about the category, and make use of it in daily life.
There is no roadmap, no blueprint for this; a lot of people will give you a lot of advice, and most of it will be bad, and a lot of it will be good and sound but youโll have to figure out how it doesnโt apply to you because youโre coming from an unexpected angle.
And youโll be doing it alone until you develop the charisma and credibility to attract the talent you need to come with you. Have courage. (You will need it.)
๐ผ๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ ๐ก๐ช๐๐ . (๐๐ค๐ชโ๐ก๐ก ๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ค๐ค.)
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