{"id":109974,"date":"2020-07-15T04:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/elon-musks-college-pal-when-elon-gets-into-something-he-develops-just-this-different-level-of-interest-in-it-than-other-people"},"modified":"2020-07-15T04:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T11:03:10","slug":"elon-musks-college-pal-when-elon-gets-into-something-he-develops-just-this-different-level-of-interest-in-it-than-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/elon-musks-college-pal-when-elon-gets-into-something-he-develops-just-this-different-level-of-interest-in-it-than-other-people","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s college pal: \u2018When Elon gets into something, he develops just this different level of interest in it than other people\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-college-pal-when-elon-gets-into-something-he-develops-just-this-different-level-of-interest-in-it-than-other-people2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon is unique.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At age 17, Elon Musk left his home in South Africa and moved to Canada, where he enrolled at Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, Ontario. During his freshman-year in the fall of 1990, Musk befriended <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/lQW0wTK\" target=\"_blank\">Navaid Farooq<\/a> while living in the same dorm, according to the book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future\/dp\/0062301233?tag=lifeboatfound-20_auto-append-20&amp;amp;ascsubtag=[artid|10054.a.35508[src|[ch|[lt|\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future<\/a>,\u201d by Ashlee Vance.<\/p>\n<p>Farooq, a Canadian who grew up in Geneva, bonded with Musk over their backgrounds abroad and their interest in strategy games, according to the book. Living in such close quarters, Farooq learned a lot about Musk, including what Farooq sees as his defining trait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Elon gets into something, he develops just this different level of interest in it than other people,\u201d Farooq said in Vance\u2019s book. \u201cThis is what differentiates Elon from the rest of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon is unique. At age 17, Elon Musk left his home in South Africa and moved to Canada, where he enrolled at Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, Ontario. During his freshman-year in the fall of 1990, Musk befriended Navaid Farooq while living in the same dorm, according to the book \u201cElon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}