If you’re a dreamer or someone on a journey of pursuing their dreams, you need to know who Elon Musk is. If you don’t, he’s the founder and CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla and founder of The Boring Company, among a whole host of other things. He’s a billionaire visionary of note and one of my inspirations. If you’d like an in-depth look into his life and story, I would say go read The Elon Musk Post Series by Tim Urban. He actually got to sit down with Elon Musk and spend some time with him (a dream of mine) and interview him and people around him.
So, why am I bringing up Elon Musk? Well, I watched an interview of his by TED’s Head Curator, Chris Anderson and Elon (in my head we call each other by first names, just like I do with Richard and Oprah) said something that I believe every person in the pursuit of their dreams should live by.
In reference to why he does what he does, Elon had this to say:
“It’s important to have a future that is inspiring and appealing. I just think that there has to be reasons you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? And if we’re not out there, if the future doesn’t include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing if that’s not the future we’re gonna have… I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
I don’t think I can add anything to that.
