那么 So what,
你对大学毕业生有什么建议 what advice do you have for college graduates?
当然 Certainly,
我不希望你在源视频中申请工作 I don't want you to apply for a job at source video,
特斯拉或者太空X Tesla or Space X,
而且 and,
如果不是这样 if not,
然后 then.
如果这不起作用 If that doesn't work,
不管是什么原因 for whatever reason,
然后困境中的药品和其他公司不竞技场或尝试开办公司 then the plight of drugs and other companies not arena or try starting a company.
如果你学的是工程学 你知道如何设计新东西 If you study engineering and you figure out how to design new things,
那么 开办一家公司就相对容易了 你只需要找几个志同道合的人一起就行了 then it's relatively easy to start a company you just need to get a few like minded people with you.
我不得不说 航天事业是相当 I have to say that the space businesses is quite.
在太空领域创业是相当困难的 因为这是一项资本密集的业务 It's quite hard to start a company in the space business because it's such a capital intensive business,
所以在太阳能方面做些事情可能会更好或者如果你要在汽车上做 学生作为汽车的零部件供应商 so it may be better to do something in solar power or right if you're going to do it in car and student as kind of a component supplier of cars.
马斯克拥有大学物理商业学位 Musk has college degrees in business in physics,
但Spacex是他在航天领域的第一次尝试 but Spacex is his first venture in aerospace.
你是如何成为一家火箭船公司的首席技术官的 How did you get the expertise to be the chief technology officer of a rocket ship company?
好吧 Well,
我确实有一个物理背景 这是很有帮助的基础 然后我读了很多书 和很多聪明的人交谈 I do have a physics background that's helpful as the foundation and then I read a lot of books and talked to a lot of smart people.
不只是跟随 Don't just follow.
这一趋势可能听我说过 从基本原理的角度来考虑物理方法是有好处的 The trend may have heard me say that it's good to think in terms of the physics approach from first principles,
这不是推理 which is rather than reasoning.
以此类推 By analogy,
你把事情归结为你能想象到的最基本的事实 然后你从那里推理 you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there,
这是一个很好的方法来计算 and this is a good way to figure out if.
如果真的有什么是有意义的 If there's something really make sense,
或者如果这只是每个人都在做的事情 很难想象我们不能以这种方式思考所有事情 or if it's just what everybody else is doing and it's hard to think that we can't think to think that way about everything,
这需要很大的努力 it takes a lot of effort.
但是如果你尝试做一些新的事情 But if you try to do something new,
这是最好的思考方式 it's the best way to think.
这个框架得到了发展 And that framework was developed.
物理学家发现了量子力学等违反直觉的东西 By physicists to figure out counterintuitive things like quantum mechanics,
所以这是非常强大的 so it's really a powerful,
强大的方法 powerful method.
我想知道你生活中让你感到惊讶的一件事是什么 And I want to know what is the one thing that has surprised you about your life.
我突然 what I suddenly,
你想说的一切让我感到惊讶 I'm surprised by the whole thing you want to say.
我当然没有想到我会发生这样的事情 I certainly didn't expect me to be any of these things to happen.
诚实 honestly.
是的 Yeah,
我知道我想要从事科技工作 我在2005年创办埃里克公司的唯一原因就是因为我不能得到它 I know I wanted to be involved in technology and the only reason I started a company back in two thousand and five and Eric Company was because I couldn't get it.
只有少数几家互联网公司 我打算在其中任何一家找一份工作 There are only a few Internet companies and I'm going to get a job at any of them.
我试着在网景公司找份工作 I tried to get a job at Netscape,
圣玛丽医院的人曾试图在大厅里闲逛 and the St Mary's man had tried to hang out in the lobby,
但是他太害羞了 不敢和任何人说话 but was too shy to talk to anyone.
我说 好吧 And I was like okay.
好吧 Well,
我想我得自己开公司了 因为我哪儿都找不到工作 I guess I'll have to start a company because I can't get a job anywhere.
谢谢你 Thank you.
我不会说 I wouldn't say,
我觉得事实上 I feel is in fact,
我想我很害怕 我感到非常害怕 I think I fear I feel fear quite strongly.
但是如果我们正在做的是我正在做的 我认为它足够重要 But if what we're doing is what I'm doing is I think it's important enough.
然后我就克服了恐惧 Then I just override the fear.
所以 so.
但这并不是说我没有感觉到我想要的强烈 But it's not as though I don't think I feel like more strongly than I would like.
我认为从个人角度来说 人们也倾向于超重 I think also people tend to overweight risk on a personal level.
这是一件事 如果你要偿还抵押贷款 并给予支持 如果你离开了你的工作 It's one thing if you got a mortgage to pay and gives a support and that if you were to deviate from your job that well,
你怎么养活你的家人和支付租金 how are you going to feed your family and pay the rental?
好吧 Ok,
这是可以理解的 that's understandable.
假设你很年轻 刚从大学或高中毕业 Let's say you're young and you're just coming out of college or coming out of high school or whatever.
你是什么 What are you?
你冒什么险 What do you risk?
你知道你不会开始 You know you're not going to start,
我的意思是 I mean,
我想在任何现代经济中都不存在 I guess it's really certainly not in any kind of modern economy.
挣足够的钱住在某个地方很容易 但这是不准确的 It's so easy to earn enough money just to live somewhere and inaccurate.
钢琴在什么地方让别人害怕 Piano in what other people are afraid of.
它最害怕的是失败 it was mostly afraid of failure.
我认为 I think.
当准确性不高时 人们的风险厌恶程度就会降低 People should be less risk averse when there's not much accuracy.
什么是教育 就像你下载数据和算法到你的大脑里 What is education like you're basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain and?
在传统的教育中 这让我变得很糟糕 It's actually raising me bad in conventional education,
就像它不应该像这个巨大的苦差事 就像你能玩的游戏越多 学习的过程就越好 like it shouldn't be like this huge chore like the more you can game a fine process of learning the better.
我有点像存在危机因为我想弄明白这一切意味着什么 I was that sort of a slight existential crisis because that's trying to figure out what does it all mean,
事物的目的是什么 like what's the purpose of things?
我得出的结论是 如果我们能提高对世界的认识 我们就能做一些事情 扩大意识的范围和范围 而不是更好地提出正确的问题 变得更加开明 And I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world that we can do things that expand the scope and scale of consciousness than were better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened,
这是唯一可行的办法 and and that's really the only way forward.
是什么驱使你 What drives you,
当你早上醒来 what is it that when you wake up in the morning,
你看到一个问题 你想解决它吗 do you see a problem and you want to solve it?
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让我印象深刻的是 我希望能够思考未来 The thing that strikes me is that I want to be able to think about the future,
如果你能做到这一点 and if you'll get about that,
所以 and so.
你在做我们能做的事 That you are doing what we can to.
难道你就不能尽可能地做好 被可能发生的事情所鼓舞吗 Haven't you to be be as good as possible to be inspired by what is likely to happen?
并期待着第二天的到来 And to look forward to the next day.
所以 So.
这才是我真正的动力 That's that's what really drives me.
这是试图找出如何确保事情是伟大的 This is trying to figure out how to make sure that things are great.
事情会是这样的 It's going to be so.
这就是特斯拉的基本原理 That's the underlying principle behind the Tesla.
Spacex是那个 Spacex is that,
加速向可持续的能源生产和消费的转变是非常重要的 and it gets pretty important that we accelerate the transition to sustainable generation and consumption of energy.
这是不可避免的 It's inevitable,
但重要的是 but it's that matters if we had,
如果它迟早会发生 if it happen sooner or later.
Spacex是为了帮助我 And then Spacex is about helping me.
多行星 multi planetary.
在那里我们可以继续阿波罗的梦想 And there we can to continue the dream of Apollo.
最终对生命做出贡献 Ultimately make contribution to life,
成为一个多行星 becoming a multi planetary.
我们再多讲一点 Let's talk a little more about that.
我觉得我写的很有趣当你说制作生命多天文馆的时候 I think I wrote very interested that when you say making life multi Planetarium.
这是令人兴奋的 That's exciting,
这是扩大 it is expanding.
那么你的愿景是什么 So what's your vision there?
你知道的 You know,
我认为它们特别适合美国人 I think they are particularly for Americans.
很明显 美国是一个探险家的国度 It are really clear about America is a nation of explorers.
人们从世界其他地方来到这里 People came here from other parts of the world.
你知道吗？ You know?
选择放弃已知 选择未知 chose to give up the known in favor of the unknown.
所以我认为美国的探索是人类探索精神的升华 So I think exploration in the United States is a distillation of the human spirit of exploration.
这就是它如此吸引美国人的原因你可以从这个角度看 So that's why it appeals to so American so much you can see this way.
所以发生了航天飞机悲剧 有七个人买了它 So there was a shuttle tragedy and seven people buy it.
这太可怕了 And that's that's terrible.
但是一直有很多人死去 but there are a lot of people die all the time.
为什么我们如此在意 因为探索的梦想正随着那些人的逝去而消失 Why do we care so much Because it was the dream of exploration that was dying along with those people.
这就是为什么 That's why.
据我看来 Methought,
特斯拉和Spacex都会失败 both Tesla and Spacex would fail.
答案 The answer,
当然 of course,
但除非你把所有的钱都投进去 而我又认为你会输 but unless you put all your money and then I expect it to lose,
它将 it will.
技术上来说 我认为 Technically what I thought was well,
我从报纸和同事那里拿一半钱 I'll take half the money from paper and fellows,
它的一半 half of it.
没关系 That's okay.
但是 But then,
当然 of course,
公司遇到困难 然后有一个选择 让公司死去或把所有的钱投到公司 the company's encountered difficulties and then have a choice of let the company die or put all the money into companies.
所以 and so.
我真的知道公司的底细 I really know what the company's dry.
把所有的钱都投到公司 So put all the money in the company.
然后我不得不借钱给朋友 And then I had to borrow money for friends.
所以支付生活费用 So pay living expenses.
你知道的 You know,
它只是在寻找非凡能力的证据 它有非凡成就的记录 it's just looking just for evidence of exceptional ability and it has a track record of exceptional achievement.
这种情况可能会持续到未来 Then it's likely that that will continue into the future.
好吧 Well,
这取决于赌注 it really depends on the stakes.
如果赌注很高 If the stakes are high.
如果这真的很重要 If it's really important,
然后我知道那将克服恐惧 无论如何都要去做 then that I know will overcome the fears that just do it anyway.
哦 Oh,
我明白了 I see.
覆盖范围 博士 Dr Overwrite sphere,
但我感到恐惧 这是一种恼人的或显示感觉少 but I feel the fear it's kind of annoying or show felt it less.