EN | The Story of Elon Musk (1)

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Did you think I need to pack this in?

Musk：Never.

Why not?

Musk：I don't ever give up.

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Musk：Hi Elon Musk speaking.

Musk：I didn't have any money.

Musk：In fact I had negative money, I had huge student debts

Musk：I have a bunch of houses but i don't spend a lot of time in most of them.

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Musk：I couldn't afford a place to stay and an office so uh i rented an office instead. Because that was i was actually i got a cheaper office then i could get a get a place to stay and then i just sort of slept on the futon.

And a few years ago people were laughing at you, now not so much

Musk：I mean okay

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Musk：SpaceX I founded approximately four years ago with the goal of revolutionizing access to space What I really want to try to achieve here is to make mars seem possible.

Musk：Step three would be to provide humans to another planet services to private sector and uh the government

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What … satisfaction?

Musk：Doing something useful for other people that i like doing.

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Is being a little bit weird crazy and eccentric a side effect of the successful, or is it the price of admission. It seems as though almost anybody who's excelled in a field has a touch of being a little bit out of the ordinary. Warren Buffett drinks at least five cans of coke per day, Richard Branson drinks 20 cups of tea per day, while Jeff Bezos has spent 40 million dollars engineering clocks that are expected to outlast human existence. It's almost like the rich you are the more excusable your bizarre behaviour is. And the individual we'll look at today isn’t exempt from this rule.

Elon Musk is an eccentric multi-billionaire engineering businessman ,who despite coming from a poor abusive household in pretoria south africa, is slowly becoming the sole individual most trusted with the future of human life. But it certainly hasn't been smooth sailing for elon musk from living on a couch:

In a rented silicon valley office instead of getting an apartment

Musk： We just rented a small office and we slept on the couch

To three divorces

CNBC was rerunning their divorce special [Laughter]

To being two days from bankruptcy in 2008.

Musk： We were only a few days from bankruptcy it was literally two days or three days maybe

It's safe to say that elon musk has only just pulled through life by the skin of his teeth, but sometimes for some unique individuals that risk pays off. The reward? Anything you want, cars, homes, businesses, government power, the ability to travel to space. All of these points will be covered in this video, so join me as we cover the full story of elon musk.

Our story begins in pretoria south africa 1970. And you might ask what was so significant about pretoria in 1970 that grant's permission for it to be the birthplace of our story. Well, at the time not much, it was actually quite insignificant in the grand scheme of things but it did happen to be a time and place where two random individuals by the name of Errol Musk and Maye Haldeman would begin dating. Errol an engineer and Maye a models, made an almost impulsive choice to get married because they were quote bored and lonely.

Well you know I was lonely alone in cape town, I wasn't in a happy situation and I thought well what can be worse? marriage can't be that bad.

Following Errol and Maye Musk's impulsive marriage in 1970, the couple had three children: Kimball Tosca and most significantly Elon Musk, who was born on the 28th of june 1971. And that's kind of the basis for our story, one big happy family in south africa: a successful engineer with his model wife and their three happy kids. And on the surface everything looked amazing. However the reality of their happy family turned out to be somewhat of a facade, the dynamic was actually quite different behind the scenes.

You said I would be beaten up, did you suffer that kind of abuse? Yes yeah yeah I think I was I was beaten up

Turns out that Elon's father and Maye's husband Errol Musk was incredibly abusive and somewhat of a garbage individual behind the scenes.

When i was married i was told about three times a day that i'm boring and stupid and you know and ugly.

Not only was Errol abusive, he also denied Elon some of the most basic things required to begin a career in business such as a computer.

Musk： He didn't want to buy a computer and refuse to use computers and said they would never amount to anything showing that.

Perhaps Errol wasn't all that interested in seeing his kids become their best selves. Elon has stated that his father was a terrible human being who carefully thought our plans of evil, also stating that he had a very violent unhappy childhood.

Musk： He was very violent, it was not a happy childhood. My father raises serious issues.

Signifying the harsh realities of his upbringing. However the real question: over the long run was this such a bad thing? Well, that's probably an argument worth having because a tough upbringing would actually end up being an asset for Elon's incredible success later in life, giving him the ability to adapt and overcome the most difficult of circumstances.

But despite being in an abusive household as well as constant bullying at school.

Musk： I was almost bitten to death if you'd call that bullied

It wouldn't be long before Maye Musk would figure out that her child was somewhat of a genius

From the age of three really i just he just reasoned with me so well and I didn't know how he could figure out things. I mean he was three.

May realize that there was something special with her son Elon after discovering that he could reason with her and complete complex jobs at an incredibly young age of three, Also stating that he was put into school a year early.

Then following Elon being put into school a year early, Elon's mind began exploding with creative ideas at the age of five or six, which was explained on the joe rogan podcast:

Musk： I think when i was i don't know five or six or something, I thought i was insane

Why did you think you were insane?

Musk： Because it was clear that other people did not, their mind wasn't exploding with ideas all the time.

From that point onwards, Elon stated that his mind was constantly coming up with ideas which he described as a never-ending explosion that can't be turned off.

What's going on?

Musk： Never-ending explosion

It's just constant ideas, just bouncing around?

Musk： Yes.

So by this point we could probably agree that elon musk was born with somewhat of a creative superpower. So with this in mind, did he have some kind of perfect plan to go from a small town kid in south africa to a multi-national billionaire?

Well, no, not really, not in the beginning at least anyway.

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原视频链接：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vai3Vh234EE&t=0s