To Be the Richest Person in the World

When we began researching Elon Musk, he was the fifth richest person in the world. As of January 2021, Elon Musk became the richest person in the world for the first time. The question we will address today is: What made Elon Musk the richest person in the world?

We know the 51-year-old Elon as a co-founder of PayPal, Tesla and the founder of SpaceX. To better understand Elon, let us return to the Elon before he became a business owner. Born in South Africa, Elon says he completed encyclopedia series as a child and later read world classics. We also know that his favorite novel is The Lord of the Rings. His nanny described his childhood curiosity about rockets as: “He used to make explosives and tinker with anything electrical.” Another notable detail is that at age 12, he earned money by writing code for computer games.

Another fact about Elon is that he inspired the character in Iron Man. Did you know that a scene from the film was shot at SpaceX and that Elon Musk appears briefly in the movie?

In an interview, Elon Musk said: “I certainly have fears, but if what I am doing is more valuable than fear, I will not give fear a place.” Is the fear of failure around us today more valuable than the work we wish to do? Here we see the value Elon Musk places on everything he dreams of. We see that there is no limit to desire or imagination. So how much do we desire? How much value do we place on our dreams?

When asked in the same interview what motivates him to wake up early in the morning, he says: “Being inspired by what is likely to happen.” In other words, Elon Musk believes he will send 100 people to Mars by 2023, just one year from now. Years before that, he dreamed of and believed in building a rocket factory. Are your dreams less likely than building a rocket factory? Perhaps they are. If so, the only thing you need to do is not give up but work harder than Elon Musk.