The Man Who Followed Elon Musk Everywhere: "Elon's Dad Abused Him, His Trans Child Disowned Him, And Here Are His Secrets For Success!" Walter Isaacson

You're the only person on earth that followed Steve Jobs and Elon Musk for years and years. So What did you learn? This is gonna be a fun ride. Walter Isaacson, one of the greatest biography writers ever. Whose work allows all of us to learn from some of the greatest minds in history. And all the people I've written about who are disruptors, they tend to have had demons driving them. But for Elon Musk, it was particularly brutal. A scrawny kid on the autism spectrum, no friends, beaten up quite often, but the scars from that were minor compared to what happened when he went home. It took traveling around with Elon for two years, morning, noon, and night, before I could get him to open up about his father.

And then it started coming out. Everything from his hard wiring to his psychologically abusive father. Hope made somebody who's addicted to drama. He was at Twitter headquarters. He decides they should get rid of one of the server farms. And the engineers say we can't do it. Fire sound. And then Christmas Eve, heel enforces his way into the server facility with a set of wire cutters and cuts the cable to the server. It drove the teams crazy, but it drove them to do things they didn't think they could do. Because must spend eighty percent of his hardcore mental energy on But

Is he happy? How did Steve Jobs change you? When he was dying, I was in his back yard with him and he says I regret.

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