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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 kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one 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 was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground. For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

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Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of 'Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu and on Twitter at @WalterIsaacson

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En la época de la distracción, Dandapani enseña a los lectores a liberarse del ruido que constantemente reclama nuestra atención y así podamos enfocarse en lo que realmente importa. La vida que deseas está a tu alcance, pero para ello debes dominar el poder de la concentración absoluta. Ansiedad, estrés, preocupación, miedo... todos estos males se han convertido prácticamente en una plaga en Occidente, plaga que contribuye a nuestra infelicidad e incluso a provocarnos o agravar ciertas enfermedades. En este libro, el renombrado monje y conferenciante internacional Dandapani nos muestra cómo el dominio de una sola cualidad, la de la concentración, puede permitirnos traspasar de forma permanente esas pesadas barreras mentales que nos alejan de la vida que anhelamos. Dandapani pasó diez años de su vida en un monasterio de clausura donde aprendió los innumerables beneficios del poder de la concentración. En El poder de la concentración absoluta, Dandapani destila toda la sabiduría que acumuló en su vida como monje en un libro práctico que nos guía paso a paso a comprender nuestra mente y aprovechar todas sus posibilidades. Con definiciones claras y ejercicios prácticos, que incluyen, entre muchos otros, hacerse la cama cada día, Dandapani enseña a los lectores a relacionar conciencia y fuerza de voluntad, y así integrar una práctica de concentración diaria que nos ayude a incrementar nuestro foco de manera sostenible. Con sus charlas y sus cursos Dandapani ha ayudado ya a millones de personas a superar su tendencia a la distracción. Con este libro, el autor quiere abrir los ojos de los lectores para que puedan comprobar cómo el poder de la concentración mejora de forma drástica la productividad, la eficiencia, las relaciones interpersonales, la salud mental y el bienestar. Saber concentrarse es hoy en día un regalo que nos permite dirigir nuestra conciencia y nuestra energía hacia nuestros propósitos y objetivos vitales. «En un mundo dominado por la distracción, este libro es un maravilloso recordatorio del valor de la atención y concentración absoluta», Adam Grant, autor del bestseller del New York Times número 1 Think Again y presentador del podcast de TED WorkLife.

Elon Musk

El poder de la concentración absoluta

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