@entrepreneursanctuary: Someone asked Elon Musk why he still works this hard when he's worth hundreds of billions of dollars. 🧠 His answer had nothing to do with money. It went back to a teenage existential crisis. Around age 12 to 15, Musk was trying to figure out the meaning of life. He read every religious text he could find. None of them convinced him. 🔥 So he turned to philosophy. Specifically the German philosophers. His verdict: "Be careful reading German philosophers as a teenager. It's definitely not going to help with your depression." Schopenhauer. Nietzsche. As a depressed kid, they made it worse. Then he read Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And everything reframed. 🌌 In the book, a supercomputer is built to find the answer to the meaning of life. After millions of years, it produces an answer: 42. The problem? Nobody knows what the actual question is. The lesson: the hard part was never the answer. It's formulating the right question. And to do that, you'd need a computer far bigger than Earth. Musk's conclusion: 💡 "The universe is the answer. What are the questions? The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe." This is the actual reason behind everything he builds. More humans. Biological and digital consciousness. A multi-planet, multi-stellar species. Sustainable energy keeps Earth alive long enough for consciousness to develop. Going multi-planet protects consciousness from extinction. He's not working for money. He hit the meaning of money a long time ago. He's working to expand consciousness far enough to finally ask the right question. That's the priceless part. 👉 @entrepreneursanctuary #ElonMusk #Philosophy #Consciousness #Entrepreneurship #Mindset

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