What Motivates Elon Musk to Accept New Challenges?

What Motivates Elon Musk to Accept New Challenges?

What Motivates Elon Musk to Accept New Challenges?

Elon Musk is not the kind of person to accept the way things are. He is the CEO of two of the most cutting-edge and prosperous businesses in the world: Tesla and SpaceX. He might simply retire and take pride in his accomplishments, but instead he decides to keep stretching the bounds of what is conceivable.

That's why he chose to purchase Twitter last year, despite the fact that he already had Tesla and SpaceX on his plate. He desired to undertake a new endeavour and provide some of his inspiration and vigour to the social media platform.

But what drives Musk to take such chances and work so hard to achieve his objectives? Walter Isaacson, who spent two years interviewing and studying Musk for a forthcoming book, claims it's because Musk is "addicted to intensity" and "doesn't like to coast."

On the Lex Fridman Podcast, Isaacson, who also wrote biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci, claimed that Musk has an insatiable desire to create and develop. He remembered that at the start of the previous year, Musk "was riding high," with Tesla and SpaceX both doing well.

Nevertheless, he had stated, "You know, I still want to put all of my chips back on the table. I want to continue taking chances. Isaacson declared, "I don't want to savour things. "He dislikes coasting."

According to Isaacson, Musk thrives in high-stress circumstances and looks for fresh ways to enhance his intensity. Musk, according to him, is "cut to be an executive in a highly intense situation, so much so that when things get less intense—when they are actually making enough cars and rockets are going up and landing—he thinks of something else so he can surge and have more intensity."

On the Huberman Lab podcast, famed VC Marc Andreessen, who is also the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, offered his thoughts on Musk's persona. He claimed that disruptive businesspeople like Musk must decide between playing it safe and taking a risk.

There is a choice that people must make: "Okay, if I have the latent ability to do this...do I want to go through the stress, pain, trauma, anxiety, and risk of failure?" said Andreessen.

Musk, he continued, is one of those exceptional people "who just can't do it any other way... He is working on a sixth company while managing five others at once because of this.

Musk and Peter Thiel founded PayPal together, and Thiel told Isaacson that Musk had a propensity for gambling with his wealth. He referred to Musk's bets on Tesla and SpaceX as "incredibly crazy" by Silicon Valley standards.

According to Isaacson, Musk's obsession with vigour is a "super power," but it also has a cost. Musk, he claimed, can be insensitive or unpleasant to those around him, but he also cares about finding solutions to the world's issues.

Isaacson remarked, "He always has empathy for these great goals of humanity, but sometimes he can be callous or clueless about the emotions of the people in front of them."

He mentioned Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and philanthropist, as an example, telling him that Musk became "super mean" to him when he realised that he had shorted Tesla's shares. Gates continued, "But he's really awful to so many others, so you can't take it too personally.

originally this story was published on Fortune.com

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