but I read a lot of books I read lots and lots of books and so that gradually sort of understood more from the books that I was reading and watch a lot of movies but it took it took me it took me a while to understand things that most people intuitively understand Elon Musk was born in South Africa he was a bookworm who was really interested in computers and sci-fi instead of H out with friends he spent a lot of time reading and he read whenever he got the chance he was inspired by the books
that he read one of which is in his father's office described inventions that would be made in future but i' encourage people to read a lot of books just read like basically try to ingest as much information as you can uh and try to also just develop a good general knowledge so so at least have like a rough lay of the land of the the knowledge landscap um like try to learn a little bit about a lot of things um cuz you might not know what you're really interested I was raised by books and then
my parents Elon Musk said up until Elon was 8 he lived with both of his parents in South Africa but he did not see them much and mostly live under the watch of a housekeeper who Elon said was mainly there to make sure he didn't break anything when his parents got divorced Elon said that he felt sorry for his dad and decided to move with him but he soon realized that wasn't a good idea his childhood was painful and isolated his father mocked his scientific attempts I did not have a a sort of happy childhood
to be frank it was quite quite rough he said he didn't really understand at the time what kind of person his dad was elon's father was reputedly emotionally abusive and harsh on his children children compelling Elon and his brother to sit silently for 4 hours while lecturing them Elon described his dad is evil and a terrible human being elon's father will have a carefully thought out plan of evil he will plan evil almost every crime you can imagine he's committed almost every bad thing you can imagine he's done it's so terrible you can't believe it
Elon also alleges that his father was verbally abusive to him when he was younger and that he did not believe Elon would succeed in life when Elon moved to Canada with a head full of Dreams his father believed he would be back with his tail between his legs within a few months his father told him that he was never going to make it his father called him an idiot all the time such hurtful words were only the tip of the iceberg that idiot went on to found the extreme extremely successful companies Tesla and SpaceX and
also invented the technologies that allow us to make online payments phone calls and restaurant searches Elon was also brutally bullied by peers in school his classmates pushed him down a concrete stairwell as a boy he was the youngest and smallest student in his class bullies targeted him as empathy did not come naturally and he had neither the desire nor the instinct to be ingratiating in one incident he was beaten so badly that he remained in the hospital for 2 weeks it took him Decades of surgeries to fix the damage caused to his face and nose
they got his best friend to lure him out of hiding so they could beat him up and that hurt him for some reason when he got home and it would be just as awful there as well he's very difficult almost excruciating experiences both at home and school that's what made growing up difficult for a number of years this eventually lead Elon to leave South Africa so how his life changed when Elon Musk got his first computer at age 11 he immediately got interested in programming and started to learn by himself at the age of 12
he earned $500 by selling his first software program a space video game called Blaster that involved destroying an alien space free carrying deadly hydrogen bombs and Status Bean machines Elon sold this video game to a magazine and was paid $500 after that the 13-year-old Elon sold two more video games to the magazine when Elon was 17 he moved to Canada to attend Queen's University 2 years later he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he received an economics degree and a degree in physics he began a PhD at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out
after 2 days to pursue an entrepreneurial career when he was in college he wanted to be involved in things that would change the world in 1995 Elon Musk borrowed $228,000 from his father Elon and his brother created their first company ZIP 2 an online city guide licensed to new papers he then sold his first company ZIP 2 for about $300 million and he made $22 million at the age of 26 in the late '90s Elon musque started x.com an online banking company x.com merged with confinity to become PayPal in 2000 with mosque as the CEO
he left in 2000 due to conflicts but PayPal thrived and was later bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002 and he made $180 million Elon believe that by selling PayPal he would be able to fund his ambitious goals of revolutionizing the automotive and Space Industries Elon used that money to invest in SpaceX and Tesla shaping his journey to change space travel and electric cars the ups and downs at PayPal became a stepping stone for elon's Big Ideas he said that he had to borrow money for Ren even after earning so much both of those
companies almost went bankrupt during the recession but Elon didn't give up and bounced back today those companies are worth billions of dollars Elon inspired the creation of Solar City he also founded the boring company which is an American infastructure Tunnel construction services and equipment company Elon mus has stated that the goals of SpaceX Tesla and Solar City revolve around his vision to change the world and Humanity this Visionary entrepreneur has a dream that sets him apart for most people on Earth he wants to die on Mars Elon is an incredibly hard worker you just have
to put in you know 80 hour 80 to1 hour weeks every week and then that that the all those things improve the odds of success okay um I mean if if if if other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you're putting in 100 hour work weeks then even if uh you're doing the same thing you know that in in one year you will achieve what they achieve you you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve okay when you're tired and want to give up think about how hard
Elon Musk works you might not not be doing the same things but remembering mosque can help you keep going when you're not motivated Elon mosque is different from other rich people because he thinks of new ways to do things that most people can't even imagine he had a lot of failures before he became successful and that's something successful people often go through even if you don't see it success doesn't always happen the way you expect Elon Musk didn't know for sure if Tesla Motors would work but as he said if something is important enough you
should try even if the probable outcome is failure Elon Musk works a lot and tries to make the world better his choices can Inspire everyone he takes big risks doesn't let failur stop him and goes after things that seem impossible whether you want to be like Elon mosque or just do something important to you or help your family you'll face tough times is on the way to success and that's okay someone who gets through tough times learns a lot and becomes really strong
