Name: Elon Musk : I Don't Give A Damn About Your Degree
Uploaded: 2019-07-09T04:30:20.000Z
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It's not. It's it. There's no need even to have a college degree

I mean if somebody graduated from a great university that maybe an

Say people like Bill Gates for Larry Ellison Steve Jobs

These guys didn't graduate from college, but if you had a chance to hire them of course. That would be a good idea

so you know just really looking just for evidence of

exceptional ability, and if there's a track record of exceptional achievement

Then it's likely that that will continue into the future how I describe myself

Well I mean I seem to have a high innate drive

And that's been true even since I was a little kid you know really?

Had a very strong Drive did all sorts of risky things for his kid that I like why did I do those things are crazy?

I care a lot about the truth of things and trying to understand the truth of things I think so I think

If you're going to come up with some solution then the truth is really really important, I think I

Try to think of I mean, it's it's difficult obviously come up with like things that are praise for oneself

You know or like it. There's and there's bad and good here, but?

think like sometimes they're just like the things that seem quite clear and obvious to me and I I

I don't understand why they aren't so obvious to everyone

Yeah, what kind of school could you describe sure it's I mean it's small

It's only got 14 kids now, and it'll have 20 kids and in September

It's called ad astra which means to the stars. That's maybe a bit different from

From most of the schools is that there aren't any grades?

There's no there's no like look grade 1 grade 2 grade 3 type of thing

I'm making all the children go and that in the same grade at the same time like an assembly line

I know you know cuz some people love English or languages some people love math some people love music and

And different abilities different times it makes more sense to to cater the education to match their aptitudes and abilities

Teach problem solving or teach to the problem not to the tools so this would be like

How engines work before you know you could start by the more traditional approach would be to say we're going to teach you all about

screwdrivers and wrenches and and you even have a course on screwdrivers a course on wrenches and all these things and it's

This is a very difficult way to do it a much better way would be like here's the engine now

Let's take it apart. How are we going to take it apart? Oh you need a screwdriver?

That's what the screwdrivers for you need a wrench. That's what the wrench is for

Which is that the relevance of the tools becomes apparent so all five boys are in that school? Yes until when this is from?

They like it they like it yeah, and you want to keep them away from regular schools

No, I just didn't see that the regular schools

Just they weren't doing the things that I thought should be done like you know those two principals. They weren't

adhering to those principles, so I thought well, let's see what we can do maybe creating a school will be better and

You also agreed with me that there was a better way to do it have they surprised you in a way of their innovative

Yeah, it seems to be going pretty. Well. I mean I the kids really love going to school

I think that's a good sign. You know I mean I hated going to school when I was a kid it was torture

So the fact that they like they actually think occasions are too long, mmm. They want to go back to school

Well I mean those are pretty different personalities in it between gates and jobs and Alison's at success

All three of those were technologists, but with different types of skills

and their jobs was obviously very good with aesthetics and

and you really insert where people wanted even when they didn't know themselves and

He was not afraid to break boundaries, but say like gates would probably be better at

You know sort of raw engineering and technology than jobs, but not as good on aesthetics

But I mean for these guys of the obviously very driven and they're very talented and

Yeah, and they're able to attract great people to hold a company

the ability to attract and motivate great people is

critical to the success of a company because the company is just that's a group of people that are assembled to create a product or

if you all some of us forget this elementary truth and so if

You know if you're able to get great people to join the company and work together towards a common goal and

relentless sense of perfection about that goal, then you will end up with a great product and

Have a great product. Let's if you will buy it and then we kind of know we'll be successful. Yeah really

It's pretty straightforward really yeah, I mean yeah, that's the reason for it

I wouldn't say I'm fearless in fact. I I think I fear I feel fear quite strongly

you know what I'm doing is I think it's important enough then I just

So, but it's not as that I don't feel I feel a little like more stronger than I would like

Well it really depends on the stakes if the stakes are high if it's really important

then one should then I you know will overcome the fear and just do it anyway I

Drive over rights fear, but I feel the fear. It's kind of annoying. I wish isn't oh, Sh. I felt it less

Yeah these all these introspective questions are interesting. I don't get the ask these very often

And then like I try to think like what is like an evident an accurate reply

And somebody said it's like I know it's hard to evaluate yourself on these things yeah

Well probably SpaceX I thought it had the lowest chance of success

Mean I thought both Tesla and SpaceX would fail at the beginning

You saw it yeah really of course, but nevertheless you put all your money in that

Expected to lose it well technically what I thought was well

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