Elon Musk: “When something is important enough, you do it in spite of fear”

One thing I really like about you is you are unusually fearless and willing to go in the face of other people telling you something is crazy. And I know a lot of pretty crazy people. You still stand out. Where does that come from? Or how do you think about making a decision when everyone tells you this is a crazy idea? Or where do you get the internal strength to do that?

Well, first of all, I'd say I actually think I feel fear quite strongly. So it's not as though I just have the absence of fear. I feel. I feel it quite strongly. But there are times when something is important enough, you believe in it enough, that you do it in spite of fear. It's normal to feel fear, definitely something mentally wrong if you didn't feel fear.

So you just feel it and let the importance of it drive you to do it anyway.

Yeah, you know, actually, something that can be helpful is fatalism to some degree. If you just accept the probabilities, then that diminishes fear. When starting SpaceX, I thought the odds of success were less than 10%, and I just accepted that actually probably I would just lose everything, but that maybe would make some progress. If we could just move the ball forward. Even if we died, maybe some other company could pick up the baton and keep moving it forward. So that would still do some good. Same with Tesla. I thought the odds of a car company succeeding were extremely low. What do you.