1 hour 34 minutes | Thursday, 30 November 2023
If you ever wanted to see inside the mind of the richest and most powerful man in the world, this episode is for you.
Before becoming the world’s leading biographer, Walter Isaacson was formerly the chair and CEO of ’CNN’, the editor of ’Time’, and President and CEO of the ’Aspen Institute’. His best-selling biographies including, ‘Steve Jobs’, ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, ‘Einstein: His Life and Universe’, and most recently, 'Elon Musk'.
In this conversation Walter and Steven discuss topics, such as:
How he followed Elon Musk for 2 years
Elon Musk’s childhood
Elon’s abusive father
The mental and physical scars of Elon’s childhood
What haunts Elon
Why Elon equates pain with love
The 2 sides and personalities of Elon
Elon’s ‘demon mode’
Why Elon loves drama and chaos
What separates Elon from everyone else
If he thinks Elon is a genius
Elon’s first principle thinking
Why Elon ignores rules and likes risk takers
How 80% of people can’t work with Elon
Why Elon bought Twitter
How Twitter has hurt Elon
Elon’s 3 aims for humanity
Why there will be a mission to Mars in 30 years tim
Elon’s rules for success
How Elon and Steve Jobs changed reality
Why Elon is not happy
Elon and Jeff Bezo’s rivalry
You can purchase Walter’s new biography, ‘Elon Musk’, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elon-Musk-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1398527491
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