In 1963, a man named Thomas Edward John made it to the major league as a qualified basketball player. In about a decade, John grew professionally to become a world-class pitcher. However, in the middle of a brilliant 1974 season, John permanently damaged the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching arm, which led to a revolutionary surgical operation.
At the time, for baseball players who had serious damage and critical wounds, the prevailing alternative was far from attractive. An extremely small number of pitchers would want to go through operation to rectify their arm injuries. This is because full recovery after an operation was very unlikely, and as such, surgery nearly always meant the conclusion of their careers.
On the case of John, a doctor told him that without an experimental form of surgery, there would be no hope.
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His goal for Tesla Motors is produce affordable electric vehicles to save the world from undue carbon pollutants. And then, he created Space X to manufacture rocket to make travel between planets a reality for us to colonize Mars.
These steadily succeeding enterprises were taken by many people to be pipe dreams, ab-initio. Surprisingly, the incredible progresses of these daring ventures are now a testimony to the resolution of Musk. As described in the excellent book, “Elon Musk,” written by Ashlee Vance, the approach of the man is, “success-through-determination.” And it means having the resolve to stick with any challenge long enough until you win out, which includes deciding what your action steps will be and preparing a great deal for that purpose, starting with the most important