ERIC'S WELCOME TO THIS BOOK
埃里克的本书欢迎词
English: Hello, and welcome!
中文： 你好，欢迎光临！
English: I'm delighted you picked up this book. I've put thousands of hours into collecting, curating, and editing Elon's most useful ideas for you.
中文： 我很高兴你拿起这本书。我投入了数千小时来收集、整理和编辑埃隆最有用的想法给你。
English: You may be seeking purpose, a mission worthy of your life's effort. You might already have a clear purpose and seek the tools for success. You will find both in this book.
中文： 你可能在寻找目标，一个值得你一生努力的任务。你可能已经有了清晰的目标并寻求成功的工具。你都会在这本书中找到。
English: Elon's purpose is to help humanity survive and thrive. He thinks in sweeping timescales, like a sci-fi epic. By funding and leading SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk has done the entrepreneurial equivalent of running a two-minute mile. Twice. At the same time.
中文： 埃隆的目标是帮助人类生存和繁荣。他以宏大的时间尺度思考，就像科幻史诗一样。通过资助和领导 SpaceX 和特斯拉，埃隆·马斯克完成了相当于跑两分钟一英里的创业壮举。两次。同时。
English: Regardless of your industry, mission, or beliefs—there is something to learn from this feat.
中文： 无论你的行业、任务或信念是什么——都能从这一壮举中学到一些东西。
English: After seeing what Elon and his teams have accomplished, we stand taller, and the universe seems smaller.
中文： 在看到埃隆和他的团队所取得的成就后，我们站得更高了，宇宙似乎更小了。
English: To me, Musk represents the idea that I am capable of more than I ever imagined. Even more importantly, he shows that together we are capable of the currently impossible.
中文： 对我来说，马斯克代表着一个理念：我能够做到的比我想象的更多。更重要的是，他表明我们一起能够实现当前的不可能。
English: He models our moral duty to grab the impossible and drag it into the possible through massive effort, ingenuity, and force of will. This is how we build an ever-better future.
中文： 他示范了我们的道德责任：通过巨大的努力、创造力和意志力，抓住不可能并将其拖入可能的领域。这就是我们建设越来越美好未来的方式。
English: In the past, the richest man on Earth was a monarch, oil heir, or financier. Now, the richest man on Earth is an engineer, entrepreneur, and American immigrant who has taken massive personal risks to build new things that solve problems on a planetary—and interplanetary—scale. We are learning to respect the builders more than the rulers.
中文： 过去，地球上最富有的人是君主、石油继承人或金融家。现在，地球上最富有的人是一位工程师、创业者和美国移民，他承担了巨大的个人风险来建造新事物，解决行星乃至星际规模的问题。我们正在学会尊重建造者胜过统治者。