How to become as great as Elon Musk

It's a rhetorical question. You can not be as great as a mask or Jobs. But to learn more about them and error themselves that they made on the road to success is always useful. In this post - the story of Justine Musk, Elon Musk's ex-wife, who shared the secrets of his success.

It is unlikely that someone can answer the question about the success of Elon Musk better than the man who lived with him in marriage for eight years. Justin, his ex-wife, gave a detailed response on the service Quora. We publish a translation of her monologue.

You can be successful and can be incredibly successful as Branson or masks. These are completely different things. Striving for such success, sooner or later have to leave behind the idea of ​​happiness. These people - freaks and do not look at the others because of their "wrong" view of life. They think not how others think. They see things from a different angle. The rest think they were crazy.

You have to be obsessed.

If you're not obsessed, to stop doing what you're doing, and find something else. It is not necessary with a head dive into programming for the sole reason that it has succeeded Gates. Do what inspires you, pleases and delights. Great people devote their entire working life, so it should be loved.

Follow your obsession as long as it starts to turn into a problem. Huge problem that will make you think. A problem that affects many people. It may take years before you find it, connect all the dots and you can find a solution.

On the path to greatness is useful to you good genetics. Waiting in front of jet lag, loneliness, family dramas, depression, constant lack of sleep and the people who put out. If you are genetically inherent good health - is remarkable. If not - will have to work on it.

Many great men have become so due to the fact that they had no place in the ordinary world. They suffered from dyslexia, autism or the other infuriated. They could not get along with people and could not work as a team. They were triangles squares in the world. So do not try to get on someone else's success story on himself. Most likely, it will not work.

The only thing that unites all the great men, is that they were not afraid of defeat. Or feared, but still moving forward. They suffered public humiliation and committed terrible mistake, losing almost everything. And still going on.

Great people do not read such articles. They immediately accepted as the biography of Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, or other people who can be called great.

I hope you get it and you can get what you want.