{"id":172124,"date":"2023-09-16T02:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T07:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/elon-musks-enraging-qualities-are-key-to-his-success-says-biographer"},"modified":"2023-09-16T02:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T07:22:46","slug":"elon-musks-enraging-qualities-are-key-to-his-success-says-biographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/elon-musks-enraging-qualities-are-key-to-his-success-says-biographer","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018enraging qualities\u2019 are key to his success, says biographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FRztx0wVuPA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has these enraging qualities, these drives and these demons, but if you pull those out, you don\u2019t have the impulsive character that sets things off,\u201d said Isaacson, who shadowed Musk for two years while researching his book, which published on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusk would say you are actually being selfish if you\u2019re sitting there hoping the people in front of you like you,\u201d said Isaacson. \u201cAs opposed to cutting off that sense of emotional connection and saying, \u2018What\u2019s best for the larger mission?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s reckless streak can\u2019t be separated out from his track record of innovation at companies like Tesla and SpaceX, says biographer Walter Isaacson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe has these enraging qualities, these drives and these demons, but if you pull those out, you don\u2019t have the impulsive character that sets things off,\u201d said Isaacson, who shadowed Musk for two years while researching his book, which published on Tuesday. \u201cMusk would say you are actually being selfish if you\u2019re sitting there hoping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172124","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\/172124","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}