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These Exhortations From Elon Musk are Your Pathway to Success Call him a pacesetter, a game changer, a leader and what else? Elon Musk is the new synonym for success

By Ankit S. Maharishi

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This man behind SpaceX, Paypal, and the most popular Tesla need no more introductions. There is so much to learn from his life and success story.

All of us have high hopes and big dreams, but the most common question that runs into our mind throughout this journey is "How to become successful? What are the most accurate steps to reach the top, starting from a zero?

You could dream of becoming an entrepreneur, industrialist, or just an employee, no matter what's your image of becoming successful, below we have shared some of the most imperative steps to start off your journey to reach the top. This way you will be able to understand more about how successful people think and work.

1. The More You Learn, the More You Earn!

Preliminary education may restrict to schools and colleges but when it comes to accumulating knowledge, you should never refrain yourself. Daily reading habits will help you mount up all kind of knowledge that you need to start off your journey. As per Elon Musk said, you don't know what you don't know and you realize it, there are all these things out there!

Just imagine when we all used to read comics and storybooks, Elon Musk used to read the whole Encyclopedia Britannica during childhood. Undoubtedly, we can't say the same thing about our reading habits, right? As spending time reading social media uploads can't help you.

Rather you should read articles, books, etc. That will broaden your vision and fetch new creative ideas in your mind. It is an amazing idea to get books that expand your scope of thinking and give you insights about various stuff. The rule is simple, the more you learn the more you earn.

2. Look at the Positive Sight and Soar High!

When it comes to looking at the positive sight of everything, actually you don't need to think about the whole world or something that changes the world in all the good directions, all you need to do is to provide a value to the people. Just like Elon Musk says that if you make something that has high value, even it's just a minor improvement but for the huge number of people and customers then that's good enough. Good things that you do, don't inevitably need to change the whole world.

When you will start looking at doing something good for society, you will start feeling positive vibes within you. That's the thing when you do things for a good cause, you ultimately feel good and it boosts your moral. Whether you are inspired by Elon Musk or by any other public figure, every little effort that you make today will surely pay off tomorrow and create a humongous impact on a huge number of people.

3. It's Better to Live With Risks Than With Regrets

According to Musk, the aptest period of time to become an entrepreneur is the time when you're young; this is the prime time of your age. When you start getting older, you have to deal with so many responsibilities and obligations. Therefore, he suggests all youngsters take the risk now, be blunt and bold about the stuff you want in your life and work hard for it.

As this is the age when you have fewer responsibilities and you can afford to take risks. Once you start getting old, the people dependent on you lets say your family and kids will also have to face the impact and circumstances of the risk taken by you.

Also, you will have a relatively lesser time then as compared to what you have right now! Therefore, take the risk before it's too late and you are left with only regrets.

4. Excuses are for Losers

You must have seen many people around you complaining about traffic, but do you know what Elon Musk did? Instead of grousing about this problem, he searched for a long-term solution to the problem which eventually resulted in a tunnel system by The Boring Company to dwindle road jamming.

Instead of crying over problems and obstacles in life, we should learn to find ways to get over and win over them. Rightly said by Musk that complaints are the sign or symbol that there is a problem to be solved.

When you pay attention to complaints, you get an insightful idea to what people actually need from you, says Musk.

5. it's time to be a leader, not a follower

Just like Musk says, don't just follow the trends, rather be a trendsetter. History is the evidence, one of the most successful people, businesses, companies and public figures are those who don't follow the stuff others do. They don't care about the increasing competition; they care about creating new innovative ideas and work on turning them into reality.

In the dynamic world, where everyone is running hard to create viral content and material, it is not that easy to create one! It's not about an accident content going viral.

Anything can only go viral if it stands out of the stuff only present in the market, you don't need to copy others but provide unique ideas that add value to the life of common people and that will go viral.

6. Walk With a Backup, Don't be Afraid to Fail

No one could ever predict how your journey to success will look like. Not even Elon Musk knew how Tesla motors would work and what would be the possible results. In the words of Musk, if something seems important enough to you, then you should try it even the probability of failure is high.

At the same time, you should put in every effort to diminish the chances of uncertainty, that's how you can see your dreams coming into reality. Also, be ready to face failure and never be afraid of it. Once you're ready with a backup plan, it will be easier for you to recover any loss.

Ankit S. Maharishi

Co-owner, Sunrise Electronics and Founder, Writers Together

Pink city is my place, blogging is my space, co-owner at sunrise electronics and founder of writers together. I believe in spirituality and power of Lord Shiva for the peaceful soul.

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