HOW BILLIONAIRES THINK

It takes more than having money to be really successful, but there are many things to learn about success from a man who at 51 years old is worth almost $200 billion.

To put this wealth in perspective that is almost the entire GDP of Greece. I mean every single thing that Greece produces in a year- one billion tons of tomatoes, 500 million tons of watermelons, all of their cheese, wheat, oil, the entire tourism industry, and every other good and service across the entire country.

From April 2020 through April 2021 what Elon Musk made every single week on average could buy him the New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys, the LA Lakers, the Toronto Maple Leafs, Manchester United, and enough Boeing 747s to start an airline.
From just one week's earnings.

So I am interested in how such a person thinks.

Musk's SpaceX Starship rocket, the most powerful and the biggest ever built, blasted off on an unpiloted maiden flight Thursday and successfully flew for just over two minutes before tumbling out of control and exploding in a cloud of flaming debris.

That rocket cost about $3 billion.

Musk's response to the launch failure was-

"Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship! We learned a lot for the next test launch in a few months."
In fact, in advance of the launch Musk had said he would consider it a success if the rocket didn't explode on the launchpad.

From studying people who are super-achievers like him one of the several things I have seen is that successful people do not describe or define failure in the same way as most other people do.
Failure is not when things do not work out as you had planned.
Failure is not even when you have lost something- whether relationships, relevance, money, or even health.

Because you actually have not really lost anything if you have not lost the lesson.

~Ugonna Emechebe