When Paypal was acquired by Yi Bei, Musk, who was only 3 1 year-old, got10.8 billion dollars. In 2002, having this money was enough to be called wealth and freedom. However, he did not choose to find a place to spend the rest of his life, nor did he choose a more profitable industry to seek more wealth. Instead, he founded the space exploration technology company, an aerospace company, and invested heavily in Tesla, an electric vehicle company, trying to change the future of mankind "single-handedly", but failed to achieve the result of subverting the two major industrial fields in the world.
So what's so special about elon musk's family education since he was a child, or did he inherit excellent family genes? I believe you should have heard the story of elon musk's mother. His mother is excellent, but today we only read the stories of his grandparents.
Elon musk's mother, Mayer Musk, whose maiden name is Mayer Haldeman, was born in Jana, a small Canadian city, with zip code 1948.
Her father, Joshua Haldeman, once worked as a cowboy, organized cowboy competitions, worked as a construction worker, and later obtained a degree in spinal neurology. During the Great Depression in 1930s, he lived a nomadic life. Her mother, Winnie Fred, works in a newspaper and has received professional dance training. She also went to Chicago, new york and Vancouver to study dance and drama. After the Great Depression, both of them moved to Regina to work. One runs a chiropractic clinic and the other runs a dance school. It was there that they met and got married and gave birth to four children (three women and one man).
Joshua became interested in flying and dreamed of traveling around the world.
So on a trip to a foreign country, he saw a plane parked in a farmer's field with a "for sale" sign, so he exchanged his car with the farmer. Later, in the year when Meyer and her twin sister Kaye Helderman were born, their parents bought a second plane Winnie (named Winnie after her mother Wen). Meyer's parents have nothing to do with their children flying around North America, and even wrote a book "Flying Haldeman: Poor Poor Private Pilot". (Flying Haldeman family: Have pity on this pilot)
Because of their love of adventure and flying, the family decided to move to Africa. Of course, the second plane Winnie also came to Africa with the Haldeman family. When the family flew over Pretoria by plane, they were attracted by the jacaranda in the city and decided to live here.
? Live dangerously-be careful.
? -Joshua Haldeman's motto
Meyer's parents drove Winnie without any GPS or radio. They only rely on paper maps and advance planning. They have safely traveled to and from many places, including Australia (30,000 miles, about 48,000 kilometers). During this period, they traveled to as many as 60 countries, including Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. When Meyer's parents traveled around the world, several children had to take care of themselves and stand on their own feet.
Not only flying, seven members of this family go out collectively every July (Lao Wu Li, born in Africa) to find the lost city of Kalahari (inspired by a book read by her father). Except for her father who flies the plane, most people in the family are crowded into a truck. My mother is responsible for taking clothes, food, water and other daily necessities for three weeks, and my father prepares maps, compasses, shovels, car repair tools and other daily necessities.
Meyer's father went to find the lost city twelve times, and Meyer followed him eight times. Although he didn't find it in the end, the family never lost, because taking risks together brought countless happy times, which is the most important thing.
Meyer's father loves exploring the unknown, learning different cultures and exploring new fields. Her mother, too, has never stopped learning new things in her life, from teaching dance to learning wood carving, pottery, painting, photography and even holding photo exhibitions; When she was in her 70 s, she began to study etching prints and was selected into the South African Who's Who of Arts. At the age of 94, because her hands were too shaky to draw, she simply learned to use computers to do digital art. It was not until the age of 96 that her hands shook to the extreme that she officially retired.
"Adventure" is engraved in the bones of the Haldeman family, which contains curiosity about strange things, persistent mentality without fear of secular views, and courage to go forward when ready ... In this spirit, her parents treat their children in the same way: "Let the children choose their own lifestyle, find their own interests, and' teach' their children with their own work attitude and attitude towards life."
Imagine you are in front of a dangerous jungle. You can get a better life by risking your life to cross it. Stay where you are, it's safe, but you can only live a very ordinary life.
? -"Principles"
As a result, in addition to Meyer, her brother Scott is currently a scientist and entrepreneur, and her younger brother Li has set up his own business school in South Africa, and is also the dean and vice president of a large science and technology college in Canada. Her sisters Kay and Lynn also started a dance school.