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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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How can I apply this idea: Musk operates by a self-authored master plan (Internet, renewable energy, space) executed with obsessive, boundary-erasing intensity, and the people around him either orbit that mission or get run over by it?
How can I apply this idea: Musk's childhood in apartheid-era South Africa combined an unusual, adventure-seeking family lineage, a compulsive reading habit that filled in for social life, and years of severe bullying and paternal harshness that together forged his tolerance for risk and pain?
How can I apply this idea: Arriving in Canada with no real plan and almost no money, Musk worked brutal manual-labor jobs, rebuilt family ties, and then used sheer persistence and outsized ambition to talk his way into opportunities, from a bank internship to Queen's University to the University of Pennsylvania?
