Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Elon Musk Incredible Speech - Motivational video 2017

But those Tesla shares sliding lower as you move through the day, they're down a little bit more than 10% right now somehow, it's

Levitating and I think it's Elon Musk is the greatest salesman in the world he paints this

Vision of an unlimited future, I think they're doomed I'm skeptical private enterprise will not ever

Lead a space Frontier Tesla sell sell so you don't own this you don't

You shouldn't even rent the door

It's an overpriced car company

And they have to become a car manufacturer and becoming a car manufacturer is a lot more difficult than becoming a high tech darling

Nothing's nothing's working

This is an elegant the Titanic taking on water after hitting the iceberg and then tying up to a freighter

That's going down. You know there are American heroes

Who don't like this idea the Armstrong gene cernan have both testified?

Against commercial spaceflight in the way that you're developing it and I wonder what you think of that

I was very sad to see that because those guys are yeah?

Yeah, those guys here's mine, so it's really tough

Rock verify range do

The flight computer has controlled the vehicle a

wealth a well-thought-out

Critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold

When you had that third failure in a row

Did you think I need to pack this in that one?

why not I don't ever give up I

Mean I'd have to be dead

Or living faster eight weeks later must bet the company on another flight

This time around

everything worked perfect

If that fourth launch hadn't work that would have been it

We would have not had the resources to the amount of fifth

Successful entrepreneurs, probably come in all sizes shapes and flavors some of the things have described already. I think I'm very important

I think really an

Obsessive nature with respect to the quality of the product. We're really really liking what you do whatever area that you get into

Given that you know even if you if you're the best the best there's always a chance of failure

So I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing if you don't like it life is true for

When my brother and I was starting our first company

Instead of getting an apartment. We just rented us a small office, and we slept on the couch

We had just one computer so the website was up during the day and I was coding at night

Seven days a week all the time you just keep going

You put 90 billion dollars

Like 50 years worth of breaks into into solar and wind to suck it Solyndra and Fisker

And Tesla and r1 I mean I had a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers you pick the losers

I'm available

24/7 just hope to help solve issues I

Call me three a man of Sunday morning. I don't care

We didn't just repay the principal we actually repaid it with interest and a bonus, man

So ultimately the the US taxpayer actually made a profit of over twenty million dollars on this most work like hell

I mean you just have to put in

You know 80 hour

8200 ro

Weeks every week if other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks, and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks. You will achieve in

Four months what it takes them a year to achieve a natural human tendency is wishful thinking so

The challenge for entrepreneurs is to say well, what's the difference between?

Really believing new ideals and sticking sticking to them versus

Pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit your product or service needs to be much better can't be a little bit better

And I think Wyatt might sort of drive to get it done is somewhat disconnected from hope enthusiasm or anything else, I just I

Actually, just don't care about hope or enthusiasm

motivation we just

Give her give it everything. I've got irrespective of what the circumstances may be

But I think people can choose to be not ordinary you know they think they can choose to not necessarily

Conform to the conventions that were taught to them by their parents

Yes, I think I think it's possible for Denari people to choose to be extraordinary

I

Think also, just just don't don't be afraid of new arenas. You know you can get a book you can learn something

and and experiment with your hands, and you know just

Make it happen find a way. You'll make way to get something done

Not being motivated by

Personally by money it's not the same as saying that I think SpaceX shouldn't make money in fact

It's very important that SpaceX is profitable or we will not be able to earn the money necessary to continue future developments

It's like the Nike Slotin you know just do it, that's you know

You know just showing up is half the battle

You got to try hard to do it and don't be afraid of failure you also need to be rooted in reality

So you shouldn't it's easy to get high in you in supply

You've got to

Not be afraid to innovate, but also don't delude yourself into thinking something's working when it's not

Or you can get fixated on a bad solution

You go to the very basic laws of physics the things to which we believe to be

Extremely well demonstrated in other words the reason they call it a law is that no one has ever demonstrated exceptions that ever

As Edison said you know it's 1% inspiration 99% perspiration

I

Think it's it's really a mindset. You have to decide we're going to try to do things

differently

Well provided that they're better you shouldn't do things differently just because they're different made you're different better

But I think you just have to sort of decide them. Let's let's think beyond the normal stuff

This is a great Holy Grail potential in the future you have to stay grounded in the short term

So you know because if you don't do things that pay the bills

You're not gonna have you know can achieve the offering launch an objective, but it's nice to have that sort of Holy Grail

Long term potential out there as an inspiration for for coming to work

I know I'm a volunteer. I mean I don't need the money

There's nothing I mean I I'm something like I'm sitting here saying

I wish I could buy such a such a thing I buy it I

Get paid minimum wage actually don't even get overtime

But I think people can choose to be not ordinary you know they think they can choose to not necessarily

conform to the conventions that

Were taught to them by their parents

Yes, I think I think it's possible for Denari people to choose to be extraordinary

Well it's like the Nike Slotin you know just do it

Definitely one the best days of my life, and I think also for a lot of people here at SpaceX

it's the culmination of a dream I

Messed up the first three launches the launches failed unfortunately the fourth launch which was the

That was the last money that we had we felt the one that fourth launch worked

Or it would have been that would have been it for for SpaceX

But fate liked us that day the fourth launch worked

- today is the is the ninth anniversary of that launch

Very emotional day actually

It's about it naval extension of life beyond Earth

Fundamentally the future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we're a spacefaring civilization and a multi-planet species than if we're not

It you want to be inspired by things you want to wake up in the morning you think the futures gonna be great

And that's what

What bring a spacefaring civilization is all about?

It's about believing in the future and thinking that the future would be better than the past

And I can't think of anything more exciting than going out there and bring among the stars

This is the first time in the four billion year history of Earth that that has even been a possibility

You have the greens, but you've got to have some sense of how you can make those a reality

You got to make sure that success is one of the possible outcomes

Becoming a multi-planet species beats the hell up out of being a single plant species

And if we're building this thing to go to the Moon and Mars then why not go to other places on earth as well

Except to sort of decide let's let's think beyond the normal stuff

When you try new things you try this idea that idea a large number that we're not going to work

And that has to be okay

I'm a big believer in in us becoming a space sparing civilization and ultimately extending life beyond Earth

The extension of life to multiple planets for the first time

Extend life to another planet is a huge quantum leap

The long-term mission is to help make life multiplanetary

Yeah, thanks to the hard work of basically SpaceX team guys. I mean that's really

But you know it's fourth time's the charm

So I mean this this really means a lot to

SpaceX obviously, maybe getting some of it, I mean that's just a huge mile

So there's only a handful of countries on earth that have done it so only a country thing not a company thing

So it's just an amazing achievement

You know the

you know

my minds kind of frazzled, so it's kind of hard for me to say anything but

man definitely

This is one of the greatest days of my life, and I think probably for most people here

It's you know

We've shown people we can do it and this is just the first step in many I mean we're going to

You know get to Falcon 9 to a little bit next year

get the dragon spacecraft going

I mean you know we're gonna be taking over from the for the space shuttle when that retires

I mean this is yeah, we're gonna do a lot of things

You know ultimately I think even

They're getting to Mars and things like that so I think this is definitely the future of SpaceX is really

great, I don't know what I don't wanna say cuz I mean it's just like so freaking awesome my mind blowing so it just

Yeah, except just like reaffirm. This is just this is just the first step of many

And this really opens through a way for us to you know

Get Falcon 9. Going get me or a manned space flight. I mean there's so many cool things that

There in the future

And

Actually the chief designer of the rocket

I mean I could tell you I could redraw that rocket without without benefit of blueprints for the most part. Yeah

So it's like seeing my baby go up there. You know

and it's

It's pretty scary

Like the battery reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live

Like why do you want to live what what's the point what what inspires you what what do you love about the future?

And

if we're not out there if the future is not include being out there among the stars and

Being a multi-planet species I find out that it's incredibly depressing if that's not the future that we're gonna have

Look at the future from the standpoint of

the probabilities, it's like it's like a branching stream of probabilities and

There are actions that we can take that affect

those probabilities

Becoming a multi path species and spacefaring civilization, this is not inevitable. It's very important to appreciate. This is not inevitable

If you look at at the progress in space in 1969 we were able to send somebody to the moon

1969

Then we had this the space shuttle that the space shuttle could only take people to low-earth orbit

Then a space shuttle retired and the United States could take no one to opens

So that's the trend the trend is like down to nothing

I'm mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve

It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better

By itself degrade actually

You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they will to make the pyramids and they forgot how to do that

And in the Romans they build these incredible aqueducts they forgot how to do it

I think I think the the value of U T an inspiration is very much underrated no question

But I want to be clear, I like I'm not trying to be anyone's Savior

That is not the the I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad

SpaceX's got five five thousand people and I

Get a lot of attention, but it's there really did the work so awesome team

20 seconds and counting and guidance within Journal

I think we're at the dawn of a new era and and it's it's I think it's gonna be very exciting

What we're hoping to do with SpaceX is to push the envelope and provide a reason people to be excited inspire to the human

Dimension c3 launches, but they they failed

And I actually only had the money for the three launches

But we managed this that was the original client the world after three if we haven't succeeded will

you know

Maybe that doctor that should be that that's it

We managed to scramble and put together the parts for one one final launch and it worked every

Now and again those graphic company was I think this will be one of those times

Three two zero all engine running liftoff we have a liftoff

I think it's important that humanity become a multi-planet species

I think most new would agree that a future where we're a spacefaring civilization is inspiring and exciting

Compared with one where we are forever confined to earth until some the eventual extinction of it yeah that that's really why I started SpaceX

What I'm trying to do is to make a significant difference in

In spaceflight and and and help make space life accessible to to almost anyone

When something is important enough you do it even though flowers are not in your favor

You know there are American heroes

Who don't like this idea I?

Was very sad to see that because those guys are yeah you

Know, but those guys heroes of mine, so it's really tough

No, I wish they would come and visit and and see the hardware that were doing here, and I think that would change their mind

It's been fifteen years to get to this point taking us a long time

a lot of

Difficult steps along the way

Creating a company is almost like having a child so it's sort of like

How do you say your child should not have food even if it in ruins you? Yeah? I

Remember waking up the Sunday before Christmas on in 2008 and thinking myself

And I never thought I'd someone who could ever

Be capable nervous breakdown

And but I I felt this was the closest I've ever come

So many people try to talk me out of starting a road company it was it was crazy one good friend of mine

Collected a whole series of videos of rockets blowing up and made me watch. Those. You just didn't want me to lose all my money

And in the end I had to invest everything and I was borrowing money from friends to pay the rent

What we'd like to do is to establish a city on Mars

and and help make

Humanity of multi-planet species and a true spacefaring civilization, that's the ultimate goal. I'm not saying we will do it

I'm just saying we're gonna try you had that third failure in a row. Did you think I need to pack this in ever I?

Don't ever give up

NASA cold and told us that we'd won a one and a half billion dollar contract

if you need is firing woods don't do it I

Think wishful thinking is innate in the human brain

Having civilization and life as we know it extended beyond Earth to the rest of the solar system and ultimately to other star systems

But that's the best the future that's exciting and inspiring

Any kind of eat things like that to make intuitive to be glad to wake up in the morning

We're doing these things that seem unlikely to succeed and if we've been fortunate and this thus far

They have succeeded that life

Can't be just about solving problems like they have a few things that are inspiring and exciting that make you glad to be alive

Ultimately be out there among the stars

That's actually been a very difficult journey I have to say

Here's a path to do it even if that path

Has a lot of danger associated with it risk and maybe won't succeed

Why it's important and even if the odds are that it won't succeed. It's worth trying to do it

I just incredibly proud of the SpaceX team for able to

achieve this

Incredible milestone in the history of space