it's an astonishing achievement that Elon Musk by his mid-40s would manage to create four multi-billion doll companies in four different fields like software energy Aerospace and transportation so what's the secret behind his success Elon is known for his incredible resilience his tireless work ethic and Relentless pursuit of groundbreaking Innovations it's reported that Elon Musk regularly Works more than 100 hours every week the most striking part of elon's character as a young boy was his compulsion to read from a very young age he seemed to have a book in his hands at all times his brother
Kimble musk said it was not unusual for him to read 10 hours a day if it was the weekend he could go through two books in a day the family went on numerous shopping excursions in which they realized mid trip that Elon had gone missing May or Kimble would pop into the nearest bookstore and find Elon somewhere near the back sitting on the floor and reading a book completely ignorant of his surroundings as Elon got older he would take himself to the book store when school ended at 2:00 p.m. and stay there until about 6:00
p.m. when his parents returned home from work he plowed through fiction books and then comics and then non-fiction titles Elon said sometimes they kicked me out of the store but usually not he listed the Lord of the Rings Isaac asimov's Foundation series and Robert heinlin the Moon is a Harsh Mistress as some of his favorites alongside The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Elon said at one point I ran out of books to read at the scho scho library and the neighborhood Library this is maybe the third or fourth grade I tried to convince the librarian
to order books for me so then I started to read the Encyclopedia Britannica that was so helpful it makes you realize you don't know what you don't know you realize there are all these things out there Elon read through two sets of encyclopedias it did little to help him make friends Elon had a photographic memory and the encyclopedias turned him into a fact Factory he came off as a classic know-it-all at the dinner table his sister TSA musk would wonder aloud about the distance from Earth to the Moon Elon would spit out the exact distance
at per and AP G his mother may musk said if we had a question TSA would always say just ask genius boy we could ask him about anything he just remembered it Elon cemented his Bookworm reputation through his clumsy ways May said one night Elon was playing outside with his siblings and cousins when one of them complained of being frightened by the dark Elon pointed out that dark is merely the absence of light it did little to reassure the scared child May said other kids don't like answers like that they would say Elon we are
not playing with you anymore as a youngster elon's constant yearning to correct people and his abrasive manner put off other kids and added to his feelings of isolation Elon genuinely thought that people would be happy to hear about the flaws in their thinking May said I felt very sad as a mother because I think Elon wanted friends Kimble and Tusa would bring home friends and Elon wouldn't and he would want to play with them but he was awkward May urged Kimble and Tusa to include Elon the kids would later say but Mom he's not fun
as Elon got older however he would have strong affectionate attachments to his siblings and cousins though Elon kept to himself at school he had an outgoing nature with members of his family and eventually took on the role of Elder and chief instigator among them even though his childhood complicated certainly the long hours that Elon invested in Reading in the early days contributed massively to his career in a major way whenever anyone asks Elon how he learned to build space traveling Rockets his three-word answer is I read books when Elon started Space X he didn't know
much about building Rockets he hired some really sharp people like Tom Mueller who was a rocket engine designer Tom and other employees said Elon would ask questions constantly like why did you do it that way at first Tom thought Elon was testing whether they knew their stuff then they realized he was learning from them Elon also would ask what is the physics behind that he understood physics but had to convert that to Applied Physics between learning from a lot of really sharp people he hired and reading textbooks on it he has become a self-taught rocket
scientist and quite a competent one the common belief is that in order to become world class one should only concentrate on one field Elon makes that rule his expertise ranges from rocket science engineering physics and artificial intelligence to solar power and energy musk has long been celebrated for his work ethic his extraordinary schedule a long working day broken into 5minute increments so that every second is accounted for his lunch is usually wolfed down in a meeting for some years now and certainly musk has more on his plate than many Chief Executives I hope you like
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