Today I've finished Elon Musk Book for Ashley Vance.

Elon Musk Book Review

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

I’ve just finished reading this inspiring book that sheds light on the mysterious life of Elon Musk and his companies.

The book is a biography of Elon and shows his business and technology views.

I’ve been fascinated with electric cars since 2008 and at that time I knew about an auto maker startup called Tesla Motors.

My idea about the company at such time is that it was only starting to make electric cars. But what I knew after is that it had already built a successful Roadster model and then started to develop another luxurious model called Model S.

This model could be compared with other luxury cars like McLaren and Aston Martin.

The idea was just magical. Imagine an electric car that can be compared with other powerful traditional cars from giant auto makers.

I then knew about Elon Musk as the mind behind Tesla Motors. Then after that I knew about SpaceX as another ambitious idea that aims to build private rocket launches and make them cheaper.

And then I knew Elon Musk had built the SpaceX even before Tesla Motors.

The more I knew about the guy, the more I’m surprised.

I knew that he was the one who first introduced the idea of internet banking through PayPal.

The idea was totally intriguing.

How could a man make a company that he has sold for billions of dollars and then take all that money and put it in another companies aiming to create extraordinary products?

What I knew after reading the book was amazing.

I knew that he has established two companies before Tesla Motors and SpaceX.

One of them was the internet directory called Zip2. And the other was the first internet banking service called X.com which later became PayPal.
The book gets you to Elon’s personal life and how it affected him since he has been a child and his grandparents even before he was born.

And all what I’ve learned was priceless.

The most important asset in life is time. How you manage your time is how you manage your life.

Don’t let time stealers take your life from you. He always had that feeling of time as a valuable asset and how it translates to money on both the short run and on the long run.

He has always been giving promises to deliver his products such as the first electric car form his company and the first rocket launch but he failed to deliver them on time.

He has always been so optimistic of what he and his teams could do.

He has achieved all what he promised even later.

He had the best skill to select talented people to join his teams.

I’ve learned that you need to follow your dream in order to be happy.

It doesn’t matter what people think about you. Only that matters is how you see yourself.

Most people cannot understand or believe what you can do. So don’t get them get into your mind. It’s how you see the problem and how you see the solution.

I’ve learned that you need to focus on your goals even whatever happens to you.

He has suffered with his businesses, with his children and with his personal life.

But he could manage to stay focused during all those circumstances with his eyes on the final outcome.

Most of his friends and employees see that one of his best virtues is his ability to stay focused even in the hardest times.

I’ve learned that all that could happen to you in life can become to your benefit at the end.

Even he had this hard life with his father and at the school; this life style is what has made him what he is.

He even wants his kids to suffer just a little bit to become strong as he is.

I’ve seen something I thought from a long time ago that life can be more thrilling than fiction.

In general, the book is so much fun to read, inspiring and you get that feeling as if you are reading a thriller.