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The biography of Elon Musk

 The biography of Elon Musk


On September 12, Walter Isaacson, who has published famous biographies of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and other figures, will publish his most recent book, which will be devoted to Elon Musk.

Preorders are already being accepted by Simon & Schuster for the 688-page book, which, based on the publisher's preview, appears to take a favorable perspective of the contentious owner of Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX.

According to the book's website, bullies often beat up Elon Musk as a young child in South Africa. One day, a bunch of people kicked and shoved him down some concrete steps until his face swelled up like a ball of flesh. He spent a week in the hospital. The mental scars left by his father, an engineer and charismatic fantasist, however, were much worse than the physical ones.

The publisher claims that Musk's childhood had a profound effect on his personality, transforming him into "a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, 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."

In 2021, Musk and Isaacson decided to collaborate on the biography. About 20 minutes after their conversation, Musk tweeted about the book before Isaacson's agency even knew about it. (Musk did not completely rule out the possibility of authoring his own memoirs at some point.)

During the following two years, Isaacson followed Musk about as he went about his day, spoke with his friends, family, and competitors, and attended meetings with Musk.

According to Simon & Schuster, Musk told Isaacson at the beginning of last year while he was covertly purchasing Twitter stock: "I 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."

In an earlier interview with Kara Swisher, Isaacson gave a preview of the book and said Musk's early years will take center stage in his analysis of the entrepreneur.

"We start the book with this astonishingly difficult childhood in South Africa with a father who is Darth Vader and who is still alive, but haunts Elon every day," he added.

Additionally, he said he was prepared for criticism of the way Musk is depicted.

According to Isaacson, "[He's] the most fascinating person on the planet right now, doing the most fascinating things and driving people insane in the process." And all I'm doing is telling you a tale to help you comprehend it. It explains why events took place.

People will say, "Oh, you explained it, so you are justifying this or that or the other," and there will be others who will disagree. I'm going to receive a lot of it.

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