Justine Musk is well placed to know how some of the world's richest people managed to get on the road to success. The common denominator among all these people: a very particular obsession…
It is rare that the success of a business is the result of chance. Great millionaires such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs have admitted that they became obsessed with their project and that this is what allowed them to succeed. In many cases, the path to extreme success is fraught with sacrifices and challenges that not everyone is ready to take on.
This was explained by Justine Musk, writer and first wife of Elon Musk, in a post on Quora a few years ago, which the mother of Musk's first five children did not delete. Having experienced firsthand how her partner became a billionaire is an exceptional testimony to the evolution of these visionaries, as she explained during a TEDx Talks conference.
Extreme Personality, Extreme Success
Justine Musk's post was a response to another post that asked how people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson and her ex-husband, Elon Musk, could reach such heights of success. His response was quick: “Extreme success is the result of extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things“.
The author has nuanced an important aspect that differentiated each of these millionaires: “extreme success is different from what I suppose would be considered mere 'success'so know that you don't need…
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