5 Lessons To Learn From Elon Musk For MBA Students

Lesson 3: To dream Big

Elon's sole purpose is to colonize Mars. To send a large group of people to March by 2025 and make it a habitable place. That's crazy planing. But he firmly believes that it's going to happen. It's his sole purpose, and everything that's happening is a byproduct of that. So, dream big. You can do amazing things. Even if you fail, you fail above everybody's successes.

Lesson 4: Importance of Execution

Elon Musk not only dreams big, but he also hustles harder. He works harder and executes harder than anybody out there. It seems that any company that Elon gets involved will achieve massive success — beginning with zip2, X.com, Paypal and al the way up to Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City, The boring company and Hyperloop. Anything that Elon Musk enters redefines and changes industries. That's amazing. For this, he worked hard day in and day out, year after year after he built the foundation as a child and continued working harder. He seriously redefined the word - execution.

Lesson 5: Think outside the Box

Elon was once asked in an interview, "Do you think you are living in a false reality?". He answered, "No, I don't think we are living in a false reality. Because the technology where it came from and where it is heading - only forty years ago a video game was considered as a single joystick and one or two buttons with a pixelated screen. Now, we have virtual reality sets that are indistinguishable from reality. In another forty years from now, human beings will not be able to determine whether they are in a video game or not". Elon is so open to considering ideas like that when most of our perspectives are thoughts are in a closed box.