Summary Of Elon Musk

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I read the biography, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, for my outside reading book. This is a book about the life of Elon Musk, his companies and his strive to make a better world. Passage + Context: Elon Musk was born in South Africa and he didn’t have the nicest childhood. He was continuously beat up and sent to the hospital a few times because the beatings were so bad. Thinking and reading might’ve been what took him out of the world filled with misery and into his own world. This passage Elon’s mom, Maye, describes how Elon was different than the other kids and how Elon entered his own realm when was thinking. “Elon exhibited all the traits of a curious, energetic tot. He picked things up …show more content…

This helped me understand each aspect of Elon’s life better. One chapter in particular was about electric cars but more specifically Tesla, Elon’s electric car company. This chapter described what he thought of Tesla at the beginning and then today. It was amazing how you saw him change his view on his employees so much is such a little amount of time. Time is what really stood out about having these sections separated. You could focus in on one particular topic but then connect lessons or experiences to that chapter and use the connection to understand what and why he did things that way. One example during the Tesla focused chapter is at the beginning his employees worked so hard that they earned Elon’s respect. Now when the author noted “how impressive it was for so many people to turn up on a Saturday. “ Musk responded, “We’ve grown fucking soft,” complaining that less people are showing up on saturdays. The chapters also taught me how Musk built up and controled his companies. You learn what he thought worked and what failed and you would see that reflected in his company. The chapters in this book really help you focus and think about Musk’s individual sections of his life while connecting the section to other things that happened in other sections. The focus and comparisons keep this book entertaining and teaches how Elon and his companies came to be as they are

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