This is how a child thinks.
Stop looking for "proof". Do you ask for proof when you need to take a shit? Prove to me you need to shit before I let you use the toilet. You see how silly this is?
You can't be sure of anything. Yet survival must still happen.
If you want to know how dangerous Covid is, catch it. Let's see if you die. I will bring the popcorn and a shovel.

Absolutely
Law of attraction baby. Whatever your heart most desires to know it will ultimately receive an answer to. And if you desire nothing you will get nothing.
Metaphysical curiosity is a damn powerful force if you can cultivate it.

Absurd logic which assumes that such things scale linearly. They don't. Many studies have been done and show that productivity does not continue to scale after 40+ hours/wk. In fact, you start making costly mistakes and then burn out.
This is a good example of how dumb and illogical stage Orange logic can be.
Not to even mention that high achievement is a pointless goal because it does not produce happiness, consciousness, truth, or love -- which are the real goal.
Landing a man on Mars will not make Elon Musk any happier. Nor will it make mankind any happier. It's a rather shallow flex goal. It's just a sci-fi version of the rat-race designed to appeal to nerds who are so spiritually bankrupt they know nothing better.