Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee VanceMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow this book was huge lol I feel like I know alllllll about Elon now lol Which is a good thing because wow his life is so interesting! I knew he was someone special but man I didn't know he was a genius and a scifi geek! :D He grew up reading entire libraries of books, and loved the scifi genre.
He read some of my favs like:
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
As well as 3 books I've never read before but now I'm adding to my TBR:
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
- Culture Series by Ian M. Banks
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Even though he's kinda weird socially and most of his employee's didn't get a long with him, he seems like a really fun, funny guy to hang out with, he thinks sooooo outside the box, he's a dreamer that actually executes his dreams fearlessly I love it!
That's another thing - most of his employee's hated him because he expects the world from you and you have to work 24/7, don't get much sleep, and don't spend much time eating. He even measured the amount of times employee's would go to the bathroom and for how long they would go for lol And even if you delivered what he wanted in the time frame he wanted (which was near impossible) he was still not satisfied, he just wants more more more. BUT all the employee's say that even though they hated him, they immensely respected him and thought him a genius, and that no one can do it better than Elon.
He's gone through so much pain, heartache, and still comes through relentlessly with new ideas. I didn't know that he was such a romantic guy either.
He doesn't care about the money (although it's nice to have the fanciest cars in the world) he more so cares about the human races existence. That's how big he thinks. It's his life purpose to take humans into interplanetary existence. He want's us to make a colony up in Mars. There's too much risk all of us living on Earth.
I realllllly loved this book, and now I want to go buy a Tesla and fly to Mars. :)
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