Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson Book Review

 

The #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Steve Jobs—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.

My Thoughts:

I have read a few of Walter Isaacson’s biographies before. The author knows how to create emotions for the subject he is writing about.

Currently, there are a lot of strong emotions towards Elon. As for me I see him as a person that is an intriguing  that isn’t afraid to shake and rattle things after reading his biography. I’ve never really dug into what made him who he is today. I’ve read articles about him and looked at some of his projects that he has done. It’s amazing how many people a few years ago just loved him and now the tide has turned into a lot of hate. It’s pretty sad, if you just can put aside the current situations and look at his accomplishments it’s no doubt that Elon is a go- getter, genius, and very driven and knows how to accomplish what he sets out to do.

The biography goes through his childhood and being bullied on the playground in South Africa and everything in-between to his rise to the billionaire he is today.

He didn’t set out to get rich he figured he’d be really rich or poor. He didn’t get where he is today in a tradition way with schooling either. He walked his own walk and is a driven individual. He took chances and went with his gut. His goal was to change the direction of humanity with the electric car to reduce emissions and rockets to take humanity into a multi-planetary civilization. Not to mention his other endeavors like X and artificial intelligence.

His intuition involved billions of dollars, and thousands of workers working long and hard hours. His core people that surrounded him are driven individuals who worked crazy hours. Elon worked alongside them and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty if needed. His rash personality isn’t for the faint of heart. I gather that Elon's goal isn’t to make relationships but neither are his core people If he made mistakes, he has the ability to adapt and change strategy quickly. From what I gleaned was that his intuitions are usually spot on.

Elon Musk whether you like him or not is an intriguing man from his work to his personal life. I enjoyed the book and it gave me an insight into the man that I didn’t know.

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