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Elon Musk

By: Isaacson, Walter Language: English Publication details: United State Simon and Schuster UK Ltd 2023 Description: 669pISBN: 978198527492Subject(s): Biography, genealogy & insigniaDDC classification: 920

Contents:

1. Adventurers 2. A mind of his own: Pretoria, the 1970s 3. Life with father: Pretoria, the 1980s 4. The Seeker: Pretoria, , the 1980s 5. Escape Velocity :Leaving south Africa, 1989 6. Canada : 1889 7. Queen's: 1990- 1991 8. Penn : Philadelphia 1992 - 1994 9. Go west Silicon Valley,1992 - 1994 10. Zip : Palo Alto, 1995 - 1999 11. Justine : Palo Alto, 1990 12. X.com :Palo Alto, 1999- 2000 13. The Coup: PayPal, September 14. Mars: SpaceX, 2001 15. Rocket Man : SpaceX, 2002 16. Father and Sons : Los Angles, 2002 17. Revving Up : SpaceX, 2002 18. Musk's Rules for Rocket Building : SpaceX, 2002 - 2003 19. Mr. Musk Goes to Washington : SpaceX, 2002 - 2003 20. Founders : Tesla, 2003 - 2004 21. The Roadster: Tesla, 2004 - 2006 22. AI for Cars : Tesla, 2022- 2023 23. Al for Humans , X,AI,2023 24. The starship Launch : SpaceX , April 2023

Summary: When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue and charismatic fantasist. His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child 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. At the beginning of 2022 – after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth – Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. ‘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,’ he said. It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Sateri Pissani Education Society's Shri Gopal Gaonkar Memorial College Goa Multi - Faculty College, Dayanandnagar, Dharbandora SPE-Department of Library & Information Science	SPE-Library & Information Science	920 ISA/Elo (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		SPE-4218

1. Adventurers
2. A mind of his own: Pretoria, the 1970s
3. Life with father: Pretoria, the 1980s
4. The Seeker: Pretoria, , the 1980s
5. Escape Velocity :Leaving south Africa, 1989
6. Canada : 1889
7. Queen's: 1990- 1991
8. Penn : Philadelphia 1992 - 1994
9. Go west Silicon Valley,1992 - 1994
10. Zip : Palo Alto, 1995 - 1999
11. Justine : Palo Alto, 1990
12. X.com :Palo Alto, 1999- 2000
13. The Coup: PayPal, September
14. Mars: SpaceX, 2001
15. Rocket Man : SpaceX, 2002
16. Father and Sons : Los Angles, 2002
17. Revving Up : SpaceX, 2002
18. Musk's Rules for Rocket Building : SpaceX, 2002 - 2003
19. Mr. Musk Goes to Washington : SpaceX, 2002 - 2003
20. Founders : Tesla, 2003 - 2004
21. The Roadster: Tesla, 2004 - 2006
22. AI for Cars : Tesla, 2022- 2023
23. Al for Humans , X,AI,2023
24. The starship Launch : SpaceX , April 2023

When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue and charismatic fantasist.

His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child 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.

At the beginning of 2022 – after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth – Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. ‘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,’ he said.

It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground

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