“#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON, THE TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES Epic feats. Epic failures. An epic story. Walter Isaacson charts Elon Musk\u2019s journey from humble beginnings to one of the wealthiest people on the planet \u2013 but is Musk a genius or a jerk? From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era \u2013 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\u2019s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child 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 \u2013 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 \u2013 Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. \u2018I 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,\u2019 he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year\u2019s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world\u2019s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went ba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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