Elon Musk’s life and history
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. At present he is compared to Steve Jobs, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford and Bill Gates, due to his great existence in technological development and his heritage of 31.8 billion dollars, being one of the richest men in the world. However, like every great entrepreneur, Musk demonstrated from a very young age a great imaginative and creative capacity, accompanied by sagas and adaptive intelligence.
Elon has always considered that his great skills in the engineer inherit the father of his, Errol Musk, who is a talented South African electrical engineer. His mother, Maye Musk, a Canadian model who taught her children to prize beautiful things, those that meet the standards of aesthetics, knowledge that Elon will use later in her life by designing electric cars with a lot of style and aerodynamics. A couple of adventurers who by 1952 flew from South Africa to Australia in a single flight, being the first to do so. They conceived three children, of which Elon is the eldest, the one in the middle is Kimbal (1972), and the minor is Tosca (1974). All of them successful, since Kimbal is currently a green and environmental capitalist who teaches children to plant in school gardens and encourage urban agriculture; While Tosca is a producer and director of series and creator of a romantic films streaming platform, called Passionflix.
According to his father, Elon was an introverted and very thoughtful child. One of those people who frequent parties to drink and talk about triggers such as sports or careers, if not rather of those people who would find themselves in the library reading everything that would be crossed. Elon read so many books that he in the present he considers that he was first raised by the books he read, and then for the teachings of his parents. Anyway, he was a child who was fascinated to read and discovered his fondness for programming at the early age of 10 thanks to the acquisition of a vic-20 commodore, with which he came to schedule a video game called blastarto that sold for 500 dollars to PC and Office Technology magazine.
His first eight years of life went into a united family, with difficulties, like any family, but finally united. Elon rarely saw them, since each of them was self-absorbed in their respective careers, his father being an engineer in the area of construction and mining, and his mother in the world of modeling. This was so until 1980, when his parents divorced. Two years later, Elon was 10 years old and made the decision to live with his father in the suburbs of Pretoria, while his two brothers stayed with his mother, a decision of which he repents today, since he considers that his father is"A terrible human being". Because emotionally abuse those around him and even physically mistreat his children when they were younger. He also earned money in the harmful and dangerous world of construction and emerald mining in the South African capital, without any kind of remorse. Something that caused a distancing between father and son, which continues to the present despite some attempts by Elon for approaching his father, how to move to Malibu and buy a house and a boat, but to this day his fatherHis malicious attitude has not changed, so the relationship remains broken.
Unfortunate the home problems were not the only ones that young Elon Musk had to load, since he also had difficulties at school. I study at the Waterkloof House Preparatory School Private School and ended up graduating in Pretoria Boys High School. In all his school life he was harassed for being a retracted child who preferred to stay reading before playing the recreation courtyard. Also compared to other children, he was a very small young man who developed late, so the greatest struck him constantly. They even threw it down the stairs so it had to be hospitalized. Those years were lonely and brutal according to some Musk statements in the present.
The constant abuses of his classmates caused the young Musk to decide at age 15 years. This caused Elon to win enough muscle mass to give him some confidence and be able to defend themselves from their stalkers, who received as many blows as he had received. This gave Elon Musk’s life lesson and boosts him to always put creation before destruction, and thus be able to defend the world against everything evil.
In 1988, when he was only 17 years old, Elon decided to move with his mother to Canada. The reasons for his move was to avoid South African military service and seek better economic opportunities in the United States and knew that it would be much easier to get there from Canada, than from South Africa. His father does not like this idea at all and I wish him the worst, even saying that he would return with nothing in less than three months. The younger brother and sister joined Elon in Canada a time later.
Already in Canada, Elon enrolled Queen’s University of Kington, Ontario. There she met Justine Wilson a writer, with whom she would marry and have five children, some twins and some trillions, and then divorce in 2008. After studying two years there, he was transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, where he received a physical science degree and an arts title in Economics in Economics. Two fields that will help Musk throughout their successful career in the technological development of renewable energy and aerospace design. In 1995 he began his PhD in Physics and Materials Sciences at Stanford University, but only attended the first two days, because he preferred to undertake an adventure in the era of the Internet explosion and in the newly founded Silicón Valley. This is how he founded his first company with his brother, called Zip2. After that Elon clears like a rocket at full speed, which until today has no intention of stopping.
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