Elon Musk

Elon Musk selling his first computer game. (http://www.buzzfortune.com/business/17-cool-facts- ())

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor" ("Brainyquote"). This is a quote that Elon Musk had said back in the past, where he believes that he has the right to achieve his goals even though he doesn't have experience of how to make them."Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971. His childhood was difficult, both at home (he has spoken very little about his early years, but he remains estranged from his father, Elon Musk) and at school, where he was bullied. Spending time in the school library, he read encyclopedias from cover to cover. Musk became fascinated by the new world of computers" ("Elon Musk"). When he was young, Elon was a kid who got bullied at school everyday. He got bullied so much, that he eventually got pushed down the school stairs and was in pain. After school, he goes to the library to read books for ten hours, including the encyclopedia of technology in his era. Reading this book helped him to later code and published a game to a magazine company where he earned $500,000. A hero such as Elon Musk must have certain attributes of an intelligent person who studied all his life to make the environment a better place and also must have the imaginative brains to set goals that would help to change the environment and later achieve those goals with great enthusiasm. Elon Musk holds his intelligence as a keystone to creating certain thing for everyone to use that will help the future and the environment around hims, and also holds his imagination which gives him a multitude of ideas that would change the way we treat our green world, making him the certain type of hero you want to follow.

With great intelligence, he helped found PayPal. (http://www.buzzfortune.com/business/17-cool-facts- ())

Elon Musk's intelligence wasn't only just a part of his brain, but also a keystone that led him to amazing discoveries, revolutionary products, and inventions that helped improve the environment around the world. This additionally helped the U.S. economy grow. Musk mostly grew his intelligence when he was little. In his early age, he mostly liked, "Spending time in the school library, he read encyclopedias from cover to cover. Musk was then fascinated by the new world of computers. His first machine was a Commodore Vic 20, and by the time he was 12 he had programmed a video game" ("Elon Musk"). The way he grew his intelligence with computers is reading through encyclopedias and learned about the world of programming and computer science, which was way different than what other people did to gain intelligence. Later this helped him create environment-friendly products and inventions such as Tesla and SpaceX, which would help change the way we treat the world around us. People with particular intelligence such as Elon Musk are encouraged to change the way we do things today. Although Elon Musk wanted to found certain companies that would change the future, many were questioning whether his intelligence is worth enough to found his companies, despite the fact most of the companies that are founded weren't related to his viewpoint of a computer-sazzy future. But later, "... Musk told Mark Gimein in the Hamilton Spectator, 'I guess my talent/expertise is that I know how to build a killer Internet company with a solid foundation. I didn't know anything about the media business when starting Zip2, but figured it out along the way. Actually, I've found that being an outsider helps you to think creatively about improving the way things are done. When people have been doing things the same way for years, they stop questioning their methods even if they defy common sense' "("Elon Musk"). People were doubting whether Elon Musk would make X.com a successful online company, due to his lack of banking. However, Elon Musk proved them wrong by stating that when people start doing the same thing every time, they stop questioning and stop doubting what they are going to do next and how it will turn out. His ability to found companies and make products that are never related to his viewpoint, still make him a wondrous inventor of all sorts. Despite what other observers say, Elon Musk argues saying that even though his companies are never related to his major, he soon proves that anybody can found a company and change the future without having it related to his passion.

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Elon Musk's imagination is not just concepts in the future, they are also part of building an eco-friendly world that may just help save the environment from disasters such as global warming. Elon Musk's imagination helps make products and inventions that will support the environment around him. One of the many things Musk made to help the environment is SpaceX, in which there are a lot of benefits for founding it, "Musk hoped that by severely cutting the cost of space travel, his business model--quite different than most space agencies and companies to date--would succeed. He used the most sophisticated lightweight materials available and a new engine that contributed to his cost efficiency. Shunning outside investors, he eventually put more than $100 million of his own money into SpaceX" ("Elon Musk"). Elon invented SpaceX to due to his belief that the human race should travel to planets and colonize on them, such as Mars. While he focuses on that, he also focuses on making reusable rockets which are meant to decrease the costs of space travel by millions of dollars. Not only does it help save enough resources to build brand new rockets, but it also helps prevent the percentage of ozone destruction that is caused. This SpaceX initiative changes the way we think of Elon Musk as a multi-millionaire inventor, but also an environmental lifesaver. Elon Musk also focuses on trying to reduce pollution and nuclear waste from fueling automobiles, and the only to do that is to build electric cars. Sooner than later, Elon Musk founded Tesla, which helped fix the one thing everybody has a problem about with electric vehicles. "The NASA contract came just in time not only to strengthen SpaceX but to rescue the foundering Tesla, which had been founded in 2003 in the wake of numerous failed electric vehicle ventures. The only successful vehicles using battery technology had been small hybrids from Toyota and Honda that combine electric power with a conventional internal combustion engine; the difficulty of building a nationwide refueling infrastructure was just one of the obstacles in the way of all-electric vehicles. But by 2008 Tesla had launched the all-electric Roadster, which attracted industry attention with its 3.7-second zero-to-60 mph acceleration time and its 250-mile range" ("Elon Musk"). In the beginning, electric cars were built to run on electric without a single drop of gas, which helps reduces the carbon monoxide conditions and even reduces the amount of fossil fuels we need. However, it had a little range to go from place to place, giving a lot of full-electric drivers frustration on whether if they should go there or not. This later proved that electric cars were unreliable to use. With Elon Musk's new vehicle, the Tesla Roadster, it gave a whopping 300-mile range under one charge. This not only shows how much better Elon Musk's inventions were when compared to other's inventions, but it also shows how much Musk really wanted to reduce the amount of fossil fuels needed for everyday life, which saves the environment from certain disasters such as global warming. Elon Musk's imagination led him to make wondrous things that would help improve the environment today and later in the future. Elon Musk's imagination will also lead to making more future based inventions such as the Hyperloop, a light-speeding railway-train, and an underground freeway system, making him the true hero for making everyday life easier.

As Elon Musk once said,"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor" ("Brainyquote"). Elon Musk's keystone of intelligence activated him to do a numerous number of things such as programming a game and changing the way of space travel. His imagination also caused him to build give out numerous inventions that helped to protect our Earth in a friendly way and also saving resources on earth. Elon Musk's intelligence and imagination enabled him to make things such extraordinary, that not even regular inventors would have thought that would in reality happen or even if they would've thought that it is impossible. He was able to make such amazing inventions from the one resource he had since he was young, an encyclopedia, and later made game-changing ideas come real. Elon Musk inspires us to think about the things we really want to achieve and then start working on it, until you come to the point where you achieved that goal or that you tried to achieve that goal. Another way he inspired is that he was able to achieve some of his goals without even giving up. Elon Musk proves this when he focuses on his company SpaceX, "Musk was never inclined to give up easily, however, and in 2008 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to develop cargo transport vehicles to supply the International Space Station. In 2010 SpaceX finally launched the Falcon 1, the first privately owned liquid-fueled craft to reach low Earth orbit. On May 22, 2012, the company launched the Falcon 9 rocket and cargo ship, carrying 1,000 pounds of supplies to the space station. It was the first private vehicle to reach the space station, and the same craft carried a satellite into space in 2013--another private first" ("Elon Musk"). Elon Musk, in the beginning, demonstrated his inspiration through confidence and never giving up, when he decided to start a Space program for reusable rockets. Despite his first three failed attempts, Elon Musk never gave up and continued to keep on working until his fourth rocket was a success and finally landed for reuse on a barge. This shows that Elon Musk can accomplish numerous things through difficult times. Despite the fact that he made environmentally-friendly inventions, people still question if Elon Musk's work is related to his passion. However, Elon Musk's true ambition is to be eco-friendly to the world, and he's doing such a great job trying to improve the future and beyond, making him the unforgettable hero of today and in the future

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