To achieve greatness, you have to fail over and over. Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams was the last baseball player to hit over .400 in a season, but that means he failed to get a hit in 60% of his at bats. Basketball legend Michael Jordan didn't make the cut on his high school team, and he stated eloquently, “I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Tesla begins taking deposits for solar roof
Last year I read the book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. If you don't know about Elon Musk, I highly recommend the book which takes you from his childhood to today. It is a captivating story of arguably the most successful entrepreneur of his time for his transformation of the automotive and aerospace industries. Last year when Tesla announced that it would buy SolarCity which was highly indebted and burning cash; many analysts questioned the deal. But if you know Elon Musk (even just from the book), you would know never to bet against him. His ambition is inspiring. He wants to fuel the world with clean energy to save the planet; but if he fails, his escape plan is to send us to Mars (seriously). The vision Musk describes with the solar roof is the grand unification of Tesla's clean-energy ambitions, combining solar power, batteries, and electric cars. ”