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South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior.
The personal tale of Musk's life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties.
He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. Meanwhile Musk's marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life ...
Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past twelve months, he has been shadowed by tech reporter, Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.
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Elon Musk: An Introduction
Elon Musk is the entrepreneur behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk’s mission with each of these companies was to save humanity.
Elon has always dreamed big. Plus, he eventually achieved many dreams people claimed he never could. From throwing massive parties to pay his way through his education at the University of Pennsylvania, to plans to create one of the first online banks. Elon has always been an innovator.
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Driven by the Idea of Saving Humanity
Elon Musk’s motivations do not lie with money. He cares for humanity more than he cares about money.
- These characteristics have allowed Elon to create two separate sustainable technology companies, Tesla Motors and SolarCity, that are each worth billions of dollars. Sustainability is a highly competitive industry, and without Elon’s internal drive, he probably would have failed.
- He also has more elaborate plans for saving humanity. He states that his main goal in life is to save the human race. He wants to provide people with the opportunity to relocate to Mars before Earth is destroyed by climate change and asteroids.
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Paranoid-Like Focus
Elon Musk does not let worries consume him but instead uses them as motivation to get things done. However, this motivation can sometimes be overwhelming.
- He has also become well known for setting unrealistic goals for his companies and unrealistic expectations of his employees. Subsequently, several previous employees have provided examples of the unbearable workloads and his verbal abuse.
- Despite this, he is still respected by his employees. His clear sense of mission helps motivate them to follow his lead. They see he is successful in almost all his pursuits. He also demands unrealistic expectations of himself.
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"Elon came to the conclusion early in his career that life is short, if you really impressed this, it leaves you with the obvious conclusion that you should be working as hard as you can."
STRAUBEL
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"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not."
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"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
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Hardwork
Work 100 hrs a week if someone is working 40 a week. The work he finished in a year the same work will be finished by you in just 4 months
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Don't be ever depressed
When you lose your last change to achieve something remember only one thing that
If you are nothing without that you were never worthy for that .
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Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is process of earning commision by selling someone product or by promoting someone's product or services.
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"one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask, Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask.
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We were left with the impression that we were capable of anything. You just have to make a decision and do it .
SCOTT HALDEMAN
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Elon Musk’s Childhood Reading Habit: A Key to His Genius
From a young age, Elon Musk displayed an insatiable hunger for knowledge. He read for up to ten hours a day, devouring fiction, comics, and nonfiction. His favorites included The Lord of the Rings, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
When he ran out of books at his school and local library, Elon turned to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Reflecting on this, he remarked, “You don’t know what you don’t know,” highlighting the power of curiosity and self-driven learning.
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-ADs
-SEO/blog
-Social media/YouTube
-Email lists
-Webinars
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Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
“Answering a question is easy, but asking the right question is much more challenging”
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All or nothing
Either you're trying to make something spectacular with no compromises or you're not. And if you're not then you're a failure.
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