Walter Isaacson, the official biographer of Elon Musk, claims the “X” (formerly Twitter) owner has a “demon mode” which enables him to deal with the “maniacal intensity” of running six different companies and having almost one dozen children with three different mothers.
Isaacson, asked about Musk’s childhood and early relationships, told an interviewer: “He had a very tough childhood. He learned how to deal with pain, and he learned to love drama that his father instilled in him. He was bullied as a child, and his father sided with the bullies.”
“So, throughout his life Musk has had these dark demons. Sometimes great people have dark demons in their head, and they’re able to channel those demons to become driven,” Isaacson added.
“He is driven by demons,” the biographer of Steve Jobs and Henry Kissinger told the Financial Times.
Isaacson’s new book – out Tuesday – has already caused a stir with claims that Musk “put lives at risk” after he allegedly limited Ukraine’s Starlink to prevent an attack off the coast of Crimea in 2022. Musk says he made the decision to avoid complicity “in a major act of war.”
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