Elon Musk is without a doubt one of the greatest visionaries of our age – taking risks, achieving seemingly impossible feats and setting ambitious goals in a way that few others have. But as we’ve learned from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers extraordinary individuals are products of a complex interplay of factors… many of which beyond their control.
Yet the life of Elon Musk holds lessons and tips that all of us could learn from and apply.Circumstances, for example, have played a significant role in Musk’s path to success – like the fact that his father was an engineer and that he made Musk work with him since the age of 14, as well as provided startup capital for his first business.
The personal qualities, habits, and skills Musk has been developing since childhood are also an inseparable part of his success. His commitment to continuous learning, for example, is evident since he was 8 and read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, because there were no more books left in the library to read.
He was also unafraid of hard work like shoveling dirt in a boiler room and was actively seeking hands-on experience by cold-calling execs to get a job. There is also his massive appetite…
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