{"id":242024,"date":"2022-10-01T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=242024"},"modified":"2022-10-01T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:33:00","slug":"elon-musks-advice-to-younger-self-stop-and-smell-the-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/10\/01\/elon-musks-advice-to-younger-self-stop-and-smell-the-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s Advice To Younger Self: &#8220;Stop And Smell The Roses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Elon Musk's Advice To Younger Self: 'Stop And Smell The Roses'\" alt=\"Elon Musk's Advice To Younger Self: 'Stop And Smell The Roses'\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-08\/g9vsscm_elon-musk_625x300_29_August_22.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Elon Musk made the remarks at Tesla&#8217;s &#8216;AI Day&#8217; event. (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tesla Inc&#8217;s famously focused chief executive, Elon Musk, faced one question at the company&#8217;s &#8216;AI Day&#8217; event on Friday that momentarily stumped him.<\/p>\n<p>In an evening devoted to robots and computer technology, a questioner asked what the 51-year old would tell his younger self.<\/p>\n<p>The verbose executive, who is the world&#8217;s richest person, stood quietly and thought.<\/p>\n<p>He began by suggesting the younger Elon gain exposure to smart people and read a lot of books, but noted that he had done just that as a young person. Then he said that there was merit to not being &#8220;too intense&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say to twenty- or twenty-something me, &#8216;just stop and smell the roses occasionally probably would be a good idea,'&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago when he was developing an early SpaceX rocket on a beautiful island, Musk said he remembered not stopping to enjoy the surroundings. &#8220;I should have had a drink on the beach! That would have been fine,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/elon-musks-advice-to-younger-self-stop-and-smell-the-roses-3395084\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Elon Musk made the remarks at Tesla&#8217;s &#8216;AI Day&#8217; event. (File) Tesla Inc&#8217;s famously focused chief executive, Elon Musk, faced one question at the company&#8217;s &#8216;AI Day&#8217; event on Friday that momentarily stumped him. In an evening devoted to robots and computer technology, a questioner asked what the 51-year old would tell his younger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5809,287994],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}