Tesla & Embrace Optimism: The Secret to Achieving Impossible Goals

演讲者透露了一个“小秘密”：人们被比作“包裹”，你“无法挑选包裹里的内容”；这是一笔“要么全盘接受，要么一无所有”的交易。他们举了一个人的例子：这个人“会设定并追求不可能实现的目标”，在“数十年”间，跨越“多个行业、技术和领域”。在这样的人的“包裹”里，“悲观主义”明显缺席。相反，人们会发现其“截然相反”的一面：“一个病态乐观的人”。演讲者最后断言，一个“悲观主义者”或“愤世嫉俗者”甚至“根本不会考虑开始”雄心勃勃的尝试，例如成立一家“电动汽车公司”，或是试图“解决火箭的可重复使用性问题”。

The speaker shares a "little secret": people are likened to "packages" where you "don't get to pick and choose what's inside"; it's an "all or nothing" deal. They exemplify this with a person who "will set and pursue impossible goals" across "multiple industries, technologies, and domains" over "many decades." Within such an individual's "package," "pessimism" is conspicuously absent. Instead, one finds its "polar opposite": "somebody who is pathologically optimistic." The speaker concludes by asserting that a "pessimist" or "cynic would never even consider starting" ambitious endeavors like an "electric vehicle company" or attempting to "solve reusability in rockets."