Elon Musk: From the child you beat

Elon Musk is one of the world's prominent billionaires. With his strength and intelligence, he created many companies that cost billions of dollars. In it, his SpaceX group is ambitious to help humans conquer Mars.

He read 60 books a month

Elon Musk was born in 1971 in the city of Pretoria in South Africa. Dad is a mechanical and electrical engineer from South Africa. She is a Canadian dietitian. He has a younger brother and a sister. When her parents divorced in 1980, Elon mainly lived with her father in South Africa.
From the age of 10, Elon Musk became interested in technology and computers. Musk boy then tried to learn computer programming by himself. By the age of 12, he sold a simple game called Blastar to a technology magazine for $ 500.

"Elon thinks inwardly. If someone invites Elon to the party, instead of having a cup of tea with everyone, she will go to their bookroom and devour books," said Errol Musk, father of the male. Rich Elon Musk, simile when describing his son.

Elon Musk - founder and managing director at SpaceX Group and President Obama - (Photo: AFP).

When the new computer appeared, Elon told his father that he wanted to take a free course under the guidance of British experts. This course is not for children. However, with perseverance and talent, Musk was admitted even at just 11 years old, according to Forbes.

Many people believe that to reach a high level, one must focus on one area. However, this is not true for Elon. He understands many areas from rocket science, engineering, physics, artificial intelligence to solar energy and business.
As a result, he founded 4 successful companies in 4 different areas: software, energy, transportation and aerospace.

Although he has a huge amount of knowledge and depth, the teacher he loves the most is an elementary school math teacher.

As a teenager, Elon read many books. According to his younger brother Kimbal Musk, Elon read up to two books a day and read 60 books a month. The interesting thing is that books are in many different fields.

Being beaten up by your classmate to hospital

Elon is a smart kid but his stamina is limited, his body is slimmer than other children. As a child, he was a victim of school violence.

He was thrown downstairs by "bear-headed" students and beaten unconscious when he was in grade 9 at Bryanston High School. Mr. Errol Musk, the father of billionaire Elon, said that he could not recognize his son after being hit by the "bear head" . That time, Elon was hospitalized for 2 weeks.

Elon Musk is the founder and managing director at SpaceX Group.

Recounting that trip, Elon said the school did not take strong measures against bullies because they were playing in the school's rugby team. 90% of Bryanston students want to study but only 10% do not want to study. However, the school did not take any measures to control the behavior of thugs, Elon recounted.

When she learned she was being bullied, Elon's mother, Maye Musk, was furious. However, the family did not do anything. Mr. Errol told the police but they did not intervene because they thought it was only a slight scratch between the children.

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Errol decided to drop his child from Bryanston High School and transfer to Pretoria High School. This school has good discipline and fewer incidents of school violence.

Elon attended Preparatory High School to finish high school. Just before he was 18, he was taken to Canada in June 1989 by his mother. This departure from South Africa was very important because it helped Elon avoid soldiers but at that time the military was protecting the Apartheid racist regime.

Elon Musk is known as an inventor, entrepreneur and billionaire. Among the companies he founded, the most famous is SpaceX, a US space technology technology group.

In addition, he is the co-founder of two other well-known companies, Tesla Motors Inc., an electric vehicle manufacturer and a global e-commerce company, Paypal.

The total assets of this 45-year-old billionaire is about 13.3 billion USD. Forbes ranked 21st in Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful people in 2016.

Elon Musk is making a bold ambition to bring people to settle in Mars. Although he was rich, he still considered himself a scientist rather than a businessman.