Thoughts on reading "The Iron Man of Silicon Valley--Elonmasch autobiography"

Some people are born to love toss, some people are mild and insipid nature. The reason for this discrepancy, in addition to heredity, is that many of the effects from the family, or childhood experience can make a person or destroy a person.

Elon, a child from a very adventurous family, his grandfather was born in Canada, but the world. Not only is the journey rich, his work experience is also spread over many professions. After earning enough money, Elon's grandfather began his travels around the world, and he made his own plane and traveled on his own plane. Eventually, settled in South Africa. To settle down is to find a place to make some money and then go on with your trip. Elon's grandfather became the first person in the world to fly a single engine plane from Africa to Australia. Although, finally Elon's grandfather also died on the way in the journey. But this may be his most willingly way.

Elon's parents divorced when he was a child. For personal reasons, his parents are rarely mentioned in this book. Perhaps it was an unpleasant experience between him and his father. We have no way of knowing it anyway. The only thing to know is that his parents ' interest in him has always been a laissez-faire, or a barrier. Although Elon is often bullied at school, it has been a minor celebrity in the local computer programming field since elementary school. Then he made the first big choice in his life. Go to Canada to study, oneself one person regardless of family's opposition, contacted a distant biaojiu in Canada, then went to Canada alone. While working in Canada, traveling, and then going to college, two years later, he went to the University of Pennsylvania and majored in a double degree. Elon in the university is "a duck in the fish", found a group of like-minded friends. Since then, the Elon of the road of tossing and going.

Elon's grandfather's way of educating his children is a pattern of laissez-faire, and Elon's parents have inherited this approach. Elon's mother was a Couba from an early age, but also chose many careers, including models, actors and so on. Elon seems to inherit the mother's IQ, in learning new knowledge, faster than ordinary people, and the speed of learning is very fast.

Elon, when he was a child, read a lot of books and, from comics or some reading of children's books, built the original vision of getting into space or using clean energy to save the planet. Can say musk life vision, from his childhood began to sprout. It was impossible to ascertain whether his original motives for Tesla and SpaceX had come from the good wishes of his childhood. However, this is indeed a very ambitious vision for humanity. If the purely commercial operation of the consideration, it is certainly not the choice of these directions to start a business. Therefore, in the Elon entrepreneurial process, encountered ordinary people may not meet the enormous pressure and difficulties.

Elon, earning the first bucket of gold depends on the spirit of adventure he dares to do. Include creating Web sites and PayPal similar to the Yellow pages. And what I want to say is that if the free will was severely repressed in Elon's childhood, or if the family environment did not give him the right to do things in accordance with self-awareness, Elon might not have considered the pioneering work that ordinary people could not think of.

I'm not trying to praise Elon. How to overcome the difficulties and how to withstand the pressure of the layers in the venture. To achieve admirable achievements. But want to pass Elon life experience, understand the important factor that must pay attention to when educating a child. When a child begins to have a sense of self, we need to make a child feel confident in the act of free consciousness. Then he will grow up in the future, it is a person with the ability to think, and initiative higher. The ability of independent thinking in the adult world is so important, it is almost a person to understand, looking for the door of the self. And the subjective initiative is a person can achieve how high achievement of the necessary conditions.

My harvest, then, is that when educating a child, it is necessary to accept the child's behavior and convert it into a positive energy output to the child. Understand the behavior of children and be a strong supporter of them when they need support. Similarly, there is a gain for self-management. First, you have to be diligent, then IQ, luck and other factors.