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From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
When Elon Musk was a child in South Africa, he was regularly beaten and bullied. One day, a group of bad boys pushed him down from a concrete staircase and kicked him until his face was a ball of swollen flesh. He was in the hospital for almost a week. But the physical scars were little compared to the emotional ones he sustained from his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.
Elon Musk developed into a tough yet vulnerable man child, prone to Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama and success, an epic sense of mission, and a insane intensity that was callous and at times destructive.
At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching 31 rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said.
It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he stayed in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground by those bullies. Now he had the chance to own and play in the playground.
James uses Musk’s story to answer one of the pressing questions of our age: Can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of ferocious global competition? During his study of Elon musk he realised that there was something behind the success of the legend. He further explained that he held on to many laws and rules, which made him one of the most successful human being on Earth. More than any other entrepreneur today, the legend has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science fiction and fantasy.
Get your copy to find out the laws and rules that made him so successful.
ASIN : B0CR6L2PM7
Publication date : December 28, 2023
Language : English
File size : 614 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 380 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : B0CR6YGWBY
