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The man trying to change the World and trying to solve
Humanity problems likely deserve vacation .
Elon Musk not only trying to make electric car but also
trying to send Humans to mars and for this he is working like hell .I imagine
myself how can a man work so hard for his dreams .And I have no doubt that the
person working so hard will achieve his dream or not .
He is so obsessed about his work that his vacations can be
counted on hand and I think that this type of obsession is needed to achieve
any dream .So by seeing his past we can understand why he is so mean in taking
Vacations?
So let’s start:
After
success with his early internet start-ups, Elon Musk became what everyone in
the late 1990s wanted to be: a dotcom millionaire.
In
1999, Musk sold his first company, Zip2, to Compaq for roughly
$300 million. After that, he went on to start X.com, which
eventually became PayPal.
And
during PayPal days he have 2 tough Vacations First While on his honeymoon with
his first wife Justine to catch the 2000 Olympics, he got some bad news as soon
as they landed at Sydney airport. The board of X.com, the precursor to PayPal,
had decided to fire him as CEO, replacing him with Peter Thiel. So much for the
honeymoon. He flew back to Palo Alto, California to fight to get his job back to
no avail.
He
tried to go on hi honeymoon again three months later. This time, he nearly lost
his life. While at a game reserve in his native South Africa, Musk contracted
the deadliest form of malaria and didn't even know it. When he returned to the
US and fell ill, doctors misdiagnosed him and he nearly died. By sheer luck, a
visiting doctor who happened to have experience with malaria cases saw his blood work, suspected he had malaria,
and immediately ordered antibiotics. Musk got the treatment just in time.
As
Ashlee Vance details in his book about the entrepreneur
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Musk later told Vance: that's my lesson for taking a vacation.
Vacations will kill you
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He spent 10 days in the intensive care unit and took six months to recover, losing 45 pounds.
In
2002, eBay purchased PayPal for $1.5 billion.
In 2002, he founded SpaceX, which is
worth an
estimated $33 billion, and in 2003, he invested in Tesla, and
became the chairman of the company which has a current market cap of about $57 billion
And the curse continued.
When he took a week off in October 2014,an
unmanned Orbital Sciences Corporation rocket exploded seconds after lift off. It
was supposed to carry food, water, and supplies to the International Space Station.
It wasn't his own rocket but it was perhaps a
sign of things to come.
And sure enough, the next time he tried to
take vacation his SpaceX rocket exploded.
The
lesson here is don't take a week off.
Also his aversion to vacation is partly due
to work also.
He claims he doesn't have time to slow down -
not even on his birthday.
In 2018, for example, Musk was sleeping on
the Tesla factory floor in an effort to catch up production on the Model 3
cars.
“I don’t have time to go home and shower,” he told Gayle King on
“CBS This Morning.”
“I don’t believe people should be experiencing hardship while the CEO
is, like, off on vacation,” he said
Tesla got over that painful period but Musk
isn't slowing down as he juggles several companies. He recently revealed that
his brain machine interface start up Neuralink implanted a chip inside a monkey's
brain that he says allowed it to control a video game with its mind.
The Boring Company opened new offices in Texas
as its tunnel projects expand.
A day in the life of Elon Musk involves back
to back to back meetings and not casual ones as he recently explained on the
new social media app Clubhouse.
“My days are, like, insane torrents of
information. The meetings that are scheduled are not, like, nice to have
meetings. They're, like, this meeting is essential. It's pretty intense.”
When someone on the question and answer
website Quora asked how they could be like Elon Musk, an unlikely person
responded. His ex-wife Justine who was married to him for eight years and had a
front row seat inside the life and mind of one of the most successful people in
the world.
She wrote: Extreme success...comes at the
cost of many other things.
Happiness is more or less beside the point.
And the essential ingredient for extreme
success is to be obsessed, be obsessed, be obsessed.
What Do Other CEO have perspective about Vacation?
While Musk is reluctant to take time off, many
other successful people make it a point to get away.
Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of
Virgin Group, has been known to relax on his private Caribbean island.
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings swears by six weeks
off every year, saying he often does his best thinking when he's hiking in a
mountain somewhere.
I don't want my brain to explode. I was thinking,
like, maybe I should, like, at some point, like, take a week off or something.
Clear my mind. That won't involve lounging
around at the beach, however ,which he once said will leave him super duper
bored.
More like walking outside of a flying plane
which he did in England in 2015 with his second wife Tallulah Riley.
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If and when he does decide to finally take a real vacation again ,it might just be aboard a certain Starship on a journey out of this world. That would be an extended vacation because the trip to Mars would take about six months each way.
Musk recently said he's highly confident people
can visit the red planet as early as 2026 though his timelines do tend to
change
What does Research say about taking
Vacations??
Research published in Nature
Human Behaviour by UC Berkeley scientists has
found that sleep is our bodies' natural means of cleansing
our brains of stress and anxiety that can impair not
only our health, but our judgment.
Research from the American Psychological
Association has also found that when employees take vacations and work in a
company where taking time is encouraged, they are more productive and less-likely to
burn out over the long haul.
Bottom line, we need
time off. The lack of vacation is actually what's more likely to kill us. But
if you really can't get away, you can at least work like you're on vacation to
be more productive and allow yourself to get more sleep, whether you're a
billionaire running two successful and revolutionary companies or you're not
quite there just yet.
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