The Psychology of Elon Musk (Chapter 5 - Saving Humanity)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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00:00 Founding SpaceX
15:18 The influence of tragedy
23:31 Joining Tesla
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserve them listeners, this is chapter 5 in our deep dive on Elon Musk. |
| 0:05.6 | Let's get into it. My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor and this is the psychology |
| 0:10.6 | in Seattle YouTube channel and podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | Who are you, Brito. |
| 0:13.2 | My name is U Roberto Kacagna, and I sell, |
| 0:15.8 | you know when you get gum on your shoe? |
| 0:17.4 | Yeah, it's like all. |
| 0:18.3 | I have removal kits. |
| 0:19.6 | Ah, let's start off where we left off. That's logical. |
| 0:23.6 | Where we left off was in 2002. |
| 0:28.2 | Paypal was just sold to eBay. He made out with 175 million, and he immediately invested a hundred million dollars of that money to found SpaceX by himself. So this is the first time that he has done something completely on his own. And I forgot this, but this is before Tesla. That was surprising to me. So before he was a |
| 0:53.0 | before he was the Tesla guy. Yeah. He was the space. He was the PayPal SpaceX guy and |
| 0:57.6 | apparently he'd been dreaming about starting his own space business for a while and it sort of began in his childhood kind of his at least love of space and space travel and space |
| 1:10.0 | and he became the company's CEO and chief engineer. |
| 1:14.0 | So what was his main goal for SpaceX as far as you know? |
| 1:20.0 | Well, his, I don't know, go to Mars, colonize Mars. |
| 1:23.2 | Why? |
| 1:23.8 | Oh, you know, from the perspective of the Earth is fragile, |
| 1:28.3 | we are, we need to, if we are just rooted to one planet, eventually we will die because either an asteroid will hit or will over pollute or overpopulated or any number of things. |
| 1:39.0 | So we need to start putting more eggs in more baskets and Mars is the most the nearest and most likely |
| 1:45.3 | places that we could colonize and so yeah so let's hear in his words. |
| 1:49.5 | We don't just want to have you know with Mars flags and footprints and then not come back for a half century |
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