If you ever wanted to see inside the mind of the richest and most powerful man in the world, this episode is for you. Before becoming the world’s leading biographer, Walter Isaacson was formerly the chair and CEO of ’CNN’, the editor of ’Time’, and President and CEO of the ’Aspen Institute’. His best-selling biographies including, ‘Steve Jobs’, ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, ‘Einstein: His Life and Universe’, and most recently, 'Elon Musk'. In this conversation Walter and Steven discuss topics, such as:

How he followed Elon Musk for 2 years

Elon Musk’s childhood

Elon’s abusive father

The mental and physical scars of Elon’s childhood

What haunts Elon

Why Elon equates pain with love

The 2 sides and personalities of Elon

Elon’s ‘demon mode’

Why Elon loves drama and chaos

What separates Elon from everyone else

If he thinks Elon is a genius

Elon’s first principle thinking

Why Elon ignores rules and likes risk takers

How 80% of people can’t work with Elon

Why Elon bought Twitter

How Twitter has hurt Elon

Elon’s 3 aims for humanity

Why there will be a mission to Mars in 30 years tim

Elon’s rules for success

How Elon and Steve Jobs changed reality

Why Elon is not happy

Elon and Jeff Bezo’s rivalry

You can purchase Walter’s new biography, ‘Elon Musk’, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elon-Musk-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1398527491

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