Elon musk is an internet personality and a billionaire while i am writing this blog, well to be honest i just heard this guy name in the news only and i only know very few things about him because at that time i was into the high school.
No Clue
It was 2025, 20 December I was on Instagram and then a reel came into my feed and talking about a Book called Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson he was taking about how this Book Changed my life and here’s why you should read and at that time I was reading Robert Greene’s Series so I thought that lets order it and see if it s true or not?
The Book Arrived
After a week the book arrived at my door step and i found that same reel and commented on it that i have received my copy and i will share my review too and in reply Book Gains said something I will be waiting.
Phase 1
I finished Robert Greene’s three books, with only The 33 Strategies of War and Mastery left. I decided to read a few pages of Mastery to preview it, but I wallow-read the whole thing—I loved the book and its stories so much that I completed it already.
My Realization
After reading Elon’s Biography I have realized that no ones life is as smooth as we think, we only know what we can see from social media but we never dive deep to the person’s past to understand the situation how the person has suffered all the way through life and how he has able to come this far.
Elon’s Life in Summary
Elon Musk faced many challenges growing up in South Africa. After his parents Errol and Maye divorced, he chose to live with his father. Trauma filled his childhood—I’ll skip the details—but he struggled to make friends; every attempt backfired. What I love about young Elon? He showed incredible resilience and determination. If he wanted something, he pursued it relentlessly, no matter the obstacles, and gave his all to get it.
Career
One more thing i have realized that is important for us from Elon’s life is that all great minds are known to each other they have similar qualities build connections and all famous for their work that builds authority to connect with each other and they all started in palo alto i have noticed this place in Steve jobs Biography and Elon’s too. So if you want to grow you have to—
- Build Connectoins with like minded people
- Surround yourself with like minded personality
- Those who will encourage you to take risk and uplift you by being honest
- Place is also crucial so be in a place where the like minded people live
- If conflicts happens change the group or find like minded people
My Takeaway from this Book
Elon & Steve jobs has some similar qualities or we can say they both were crazy and if you are reading this book you will Find “Crazy” word specially for Elon has used too many times.
if you want to reach your full potential the network with Elon he will give you a dead line which is nearly impossible two things could happen either you will achieve something bigger or fail badly.
Personal Favorite from the book, its a must read
My Notes
I have come to realize that if you want to change a world or contribute to a society then you have to be crazy, crazy enough to talk bullshit that nobody thinks, crazy enough to set deadlines that seems impossible, crazy enough to work all night at space X all night instead of going to Christmas, crazy enough to handle your past or trying to fix everyone’s life, crazy enough to stay resilient and put everything you have got into the companies and still rise.
Over all Be Crazy like Elon, Work Like Elon and You Will Get the Success like Elon.
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