overnight, the world's richest man changed.

elon musk beat Amazon CEO Bezos to become the richest man in the world.

at the beginning of 22, he had only $27 billion in assets.

in a short period of one year, his net worth soared to $195 billion, equivalent to RMB 1,262.6 billion, equivalent to an increase of RMB 3, per second.

The news that Musk became the richest man in the world shocked many people.

He himself is very calm:

Musk was born in poor Africa. From repeated humiliation in childhood, mental breakdown in the start-up period, to the richest man in the world today, Musk's life can be said to be criss-crossed with luck and misfortune.

His mother, Meyer Musk, is elegant, confident and graceful, and has always escorted Musk on his road to success.

But his father, errol Musk, is a demon who has been accused of homosexuality, misogyny and pedophilia.

His father abused his wife and children at home, and once admitted to slapping Musk when he was young.

As a child, Musk read widely and never forgets anything. He was praised as "Elon Encyclopedia" and was recognized as a genius in everyone's eyes.

But because he is introverted and withdrawn, he is often excluded from school and becomes a victim of campus bullying.

when he started his business, the information website he set up with his younger brother sold for 3 million dollars, and Musk got a huge sum of money, becoming a rich man who drove a luxury car and lived in a villa.

But he dreamed of "going to heaven" and growing vegetables in space, so he threw money into building rockets.

As a result, the rocket exploded into fireworks every year, forcing him to sell all his possessions and have a nervous breakdown.

In the movie Farewell My Concubine, there is such a line:

It can be said that Musk was able to turn the page against the wind and fight back from the Jedi. It is precisely because he was obsessed with his dreams that he was able to make money to the extreme.

After reading the story of Musk, the richest man in the world, I realized five truths about life.

the first life truth: family of origin can't choose, but you can go where you want.

When she was young, Meyer was too simple. Facing her ex-husband's proposal, she hastily agreed without considering it.

After marriage, her husband beat her during the honeymoon and hid her passport so that she could not escape.

She is pregnant with Musk, and her husband will not pity her for being pregnant.

instead, she humiliated her in front of the guests, made her do manual labor with a big belly, and even prohibited her from contacting her family.

Meyer recalled that time in his autobiography:

Musk, who was thin as a child, protected his mother in this way.

(Meyer was elected as a beauty pageant champion when he was young)

When Musk was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine in his forties, he still trembled when he talked about his father:

After getting married and having children, Musk refused to let his children meet his father.

After his father divorced, he married three more wives.

At that time, his father's second wife brought a daughter. As a result, this stepsister became his father's last wife and gave birth to a daughter.

This nominally younger sister has spent six years with Musk.

It's hard to imagine what kind of inner suffering Musk has to endure with such a chaotic father.

(Meyer was young)

family of origin left a mark on Musk, but fortunately, he had a mother who was a model of independent women.

at the beginning, Meyer resolutely divorced for the sake of children and self-help.

In order to force her to return to her original home, her husband repeatedly sued her for ten years, and repeatedly proved to the court that she could not raise the children alone.

Meyer has three children, and her life is very poor. She has to work two jobs during the day, work as a model and nutrition consultant part-time, and go to night school to study for a master's degree.

They rent a small house, the children sleep in the bedroom, and she sleeps in the living room or kitchen. She can only eat cheap peanut butter sandwiches and bean soup at night.

Even though life is so poor, Meyer still insists on divorce:

(In 1976, Meyer was in South Africa with three children)

In an interview report about Meyer, there was a passage:

I agree with this statement very much, and I am Musk's mother, who taught him to stick to his love with her own experience.

With the help of his mother, he has healed himself and grown into a legend.

the second truth of life: no one can become a good piece of steel without being tempered.

In the eyes of his peers, Musk is a nerd who likes to show off.

On one occasion, he was pushed down a high staircase, beaten black and blue by being chased, and passed out.

As soon as Musk began to develop physically, he began to learn karate and judo.

When bullied again, he seized the opportunity and knocked the biggest bully to the ground with one punch. Since then, no one has dared to bully him.

Looking back many years later, he said harshly:

With these tragic experiences, Musk became introverted, but the unyielding and rebellious nature in his bones became more and more obvious.

When he graduated from high school, it was in the late 198s, when the national strength of the United States was strong, and he made up his mind to study and develop in the United States.

but for a high school student, it is not easy to go to America.

His mother Meyer was born in Canada and kept a Canadian passport. According to Canadian law, he can apply for Canadian citizenship.

Therefore, Musk's first step is to spend a whole year applying for Canadian citizenship.

His father resolutely opposed his going to Canada, insulted him as an idiot, and threatened that he would not be given a penny for living expenses.

17-year-old Musk just wanted to leave his father far away. He boarded the plane alone and left South Africa.

after that, he never went back.

I once read a passage:

It's not freezing to the bone, how can plum blossom smell fragrant.

In the end, all the hardships that Musk experienced became the foreshadowing of his surprise.

the third life truth: all talents are different, and they all come from accumulation.

Musk has been a genius with a halo since he was a child.

12-year-old Musk wrote an outer space shooting game, which was bought by a company for $5.

At that time, he wanted to open a game hall with his younger brother.

They have already bought machines and rented storefronts, but his business plan was forced to be terminated because the government refused to issue business licenses to children under the age of 18 and parents did not agree to do it on their behalf.

at the age of 28, he and his younger brother started an information website, which put information such as the location of merchants on the network to improve the customer's arrival rate, similar to the current Meituan.

at that time, the internet was just emerging, and this idea was very advanced.

Later, the company was bought for 3 million dollars, and he got 22 million dollars.

After this battle, Musk became a rich man and bought a luxury car and a mansion.

(Musk in his youth)

Immediately afterwards, Musk founded the second company.

He set up a website that can pay by email, which revolutionized the credit card transaction at that time, just like the current two-dimensional code instead of cash transaction.

Needless to say, in 22, Musk cashed in 18 million yuan through this company, successfully completing the leap from multi-millionaire to billionaire.

his achievements in his career are enough to prove his genius.

(brothers in the start-up period)

Actually, when Musk and his younger brother started their business, they only scraped together $2,.

They rented a linked office, because they didn't have any extra money. They ate and lived in the office, and even took a shower, they had to go to the public bathroom of the church.

Moreover, Musk likes reading books since he was a child. He read Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in elementary school, and the average reading time is as high as 1 hours every day.

When I was studying, I almost read all the books in the school library.

He studied in Canada for two years, and then applied to the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton Business School to continue his studies.

He majored in economics first. In order to master more skills, he studied physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the College of Arts and Sciences for another year.

He has a double degree in physics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

when he first arrived in the United States, he and his brother collected the phone numbers of countless business executives, and called them one by one to ask if they could have lunch with him.

It took countless phone calls to get an opportunity, and the executive who had lunch with him gave Musk an internship.

In fact, there is no genius born at all, only the unknown efforts behind success.

the fourth life truth: only with extraordinary ambition can you achieve extraordinary success.

31-year-old Musk has achieved economic freedom. At this time, he is fully capable of pursuing his dreams.

But his dream is to send a greenhouse into space with a rocket and build an ecosystem in space.

even now, his dream is crazy.

In order to stop him, his friend thought that mice were needed for space experiments, and the mice's favorite food was cheese, so he bought him a big box of cheese and sent it, and deliberately ridiculed: "Dude can only help you here."

musk was not influenced by the outside voice.

He planned to invest $2 million to buy a rocket, but failed to bargain with the buyer, and the other party ridiculed him: "Don't play this if you have no money."

He was so angry that he swore that he would invest money and make the rocket.

In order to pursue his dreams, Musk funded the establishment of SpaceX in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

From 22 to 26, he led his team to work all night, and it took him four years to build a rocket.

But 25 seconds after launch, the rocket lost control and crashed to the ground.

after that, it was launched twice in succession, both of which ended in failure.

Someone quipped:

Musk has a spirit of "going to heaven and going to earth, and never giving up until he succeeds".

He sold his real estate, private jet and other assets like crazy. When they could not be sold, he contacted friends everywhere to borrow money. No matter how difficult it was, he would build a rocket.

Until 28, Musk's rocket was finally successfully launched, officially opening the road to commercial space flight.

Now, SpaceX has become the largest commercial satellite operator in the world, and the profits that Musk has gained from it are incalculable.

And his next goal is to let 1 million people move to Mars before 25.

In the Preface to the Pavilion of Teng Wang, Wang Bo has such a sentence:

Actually, this sentence is not only suitable for describing Musk, but also suitable for every dream catcher.

the more difficult the situation is, the more determined you must be.

the fifth life truth: if you want to be extremely successful, you must drive yourself crazy first.

behind musk's business legend, there is a huge working team, who work for more than 1 hours a week in order to achieve the work goals set by musk.

If anyone says in front of Musk that the work can't be finished, he will say, "You're fired, and I'll take your job next."

he really fired the other party and then took over the other party's work to finish it better.

In his eyes, there is nothing in the world that is impossible. Whoever says that it is impossible is to admit incompetence, or not to do it, and to use it as an excuse for himself.

But he forgot that not everyone can be a "genius Musk".

once, an employee missed an activity because of the birth of a child, and Musk sent an email to scold him.

Once, Musk's two-month-old son was strangled to death because he was not found in time with a quilt over his head.

At that time, Musk was working so hard to build a rocket that he didn't have time to shed a tear, so his ex-wife Justin accused him of being cold-blooded.

Actually, for a person who is desperate for success like Musk, of course, his career is more important, but it is not necessarily for others.

Ms. Brown, who has been his assistant for 12 years, was directly fired by him because she proposed a salary increase.

Ms. Brown, who was on call around the clock with him, only got N+1 compensation when she left her job.

In order to succeed, Musk can give up all his clothes, but he can't ask others to forget everything like him.

On foreign social networking sites similar to "Zhihu", there is such a problem: