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1 New York Times bestseller From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our eraa rulebreaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles private space exploration and artificial intelligence Oh and took over Twitter 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 manchild prone to abrupt JekyllandHyde mood swings 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 2022after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirtyone rockets into orbit Tesla selling a million cars and him becoming the richest man on earthMusk 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 For two years Isaacson shadowed Musk attended his meetings walked his factories with him and spent hours interviewing him his family friends coworkers and adversaries The result is the revealing inside story filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil that addresses the question are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress