Takeaways from the book Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance

   I've finished reading this excellent book about Elon Musk and his businesses. It is an inspiring book, and I enjoyed a lot. Elon Musk is unique personal with his character. He can see the future and can find opportunities in business with solutions by taking a massive risk. His courageous personality can handle the pressure and failure, and his energetic intention presses the things to the end until he reaches his goal. He has the ability to accomplish, can set kind of 'impossible' goals and achieve them one by one. Working for his company looks so tough. He can easily fire his employees and does not leave any discussions for his orders. However, his harsh leadership and attainment capability lead his people to extraordinary results.

   His life is full of adventures. He passes through the various experiences and never stops in one place or one thing. He moves to new targets and ideas to accomplish. He passes through startups like a Zip 2, PayPal and builds SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity company, and Hyperloop project. Elon Musk figures out the finance, automotive and space industry have a lot of bureaucratic and slow processes that can be solved by IT and startups and he showed the world how to do it. SpaceX is his massive accomplishment in the space industry - he commercialized the business. Tesla provides electric cars with features that were not available before. And, he did not stop, he is still working toward his goal, to Mars. We may witness some other interesting innovation from his companies in the future too. I highly recommend this book. By reading the book, you will get a lot of interesting information, especially if you are a tech or startup guy.

   Here are some of the lessons.

1. The extraordinary tasks require the person with a strong character with a vision and commitment.
2. Think about your childhood dreams, desires, and the things you wanted to do, they might be the calls for you, and now you may succeed in their application.
3. Have a vision, think about it, try to accomplish it.
4. Work hard toward your goals and never give up. Success or any accomplishment requires the years full of non-stop long hours.
5. Never lose your faith in your difficult times. Elon Musk has faced a severe and almost bankruptcy experiences several times, but he kept working, and he did not lose his hope.  
6. Nowadays, startups can build things that were impossible before without huge money and tens of thousands of people involved in a business. Rocket and electric car are examples.
7. Try the other uncommon ways to innovate or to be creative.

Thank you for reading!