This is a rough summary note of his biography. It’s not perfect(esp, grammatically), but you can understand Elon Musk a bit.
\- If you want to be like Elon Musk
\- Turn off fear, joy, empathy
\- Be addicted to taking risks
\- Thrive on crises and deadlines
\- Have fierce determination
\- Don’t give up even if your college-admissions test scores aren’t especially notable like Elon Musk’s (On his second round of the SAT tests, he got a 670 out of 800 on his verbal exam and a 730 on math. )
\- Get A’s in usiness, Economics, Calculus, and Computer Programming. Get B’s in Accounting, Spanish, and Industrial Relations.
\- Discuss Philosophy
\- Do strategy games
\- Pick out the people you find most interesting, call(email) them and have lunch with them
\- If your school is not academically challenging, transfer to school that is academically challenging for you.
\- If things like internet revolution happens, you gotta ride the wave. you will have lots of time to go to graduate school later.
\- Instead of buying islands or vacation stuff, invest in building and creating a new company.
\- find problems you want to solve and try to solve them
\- Read books about what you want to solve or create and call experts
\- when you get mad, try to reframe the problem
\- Be studious
\- Try new ideas and be willing to blow things up
\- Retreat into the future when you get stressed
\- Don’t want to be everyone’s friend cuz it leads you to care too much about the emotions of the individual rather than caring about the success of the whole enterprise
\- Question requirements to save money
\- Be obsessed on solving a problem including the design, the underlying science, engineering and manufacturing until you do
\- Seek unconventional thinking if conventional thinking makes your mission impossible
\- Prioritize work over comfort and leisure
\- Dream a world of universal basic income “Working could become a choice.”
\- Have an analytic mind
\- Get an ability to laser focus
\- Be careful what you wish for
\- Know when to ignrore naysayers
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Thanks for reading. Sorry for not being perfect lol
by eieireddit
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How to be a fascist, nazi manchild 😍
Forgive me because I have been out of the zeitgeist for a moment, but has the [research provided by the public Capitol Hunters group](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593307541932474368.html) been disproven or…?
I’d rather have a family
I don’t want to be like Elon Musk
Step 1: Profit from an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa
Step 2: Fraud
Isaacson pulled every punch. He did the same with the SBF biography, he’s a sucker for fraudsters lately. Anything for a story.