Inspiring Personality of the Month - Elon Reeve Musk

Inspiring Personality of the month January 2016 is 

Elon Reeves Musk

Starting this January 2016, read about one inspiring personality every month.

Who is Elon Reeves Musk?

The founder Solar City, SpaceX, OpenAI, Tesla Motors, Hyperloop, Co Founder of X.Com and former CEO of Paypal ....

... evidently an Over Achiever ... creates a feeling in everyone who reads about him that he/she is so lazy. The meticulous planning for future, the apt beginning with negligible investment, moving ahead step by step achieving his targets one by one and the move is still on.

You can buy his biography Elon Musk : How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is shaping our Future (English)(Paperback) here.

The book traces Elon Musk's life from his childhood up to the time he spent at Zip2 and Paypal, and then onto SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. In the book, Vance managed to get regular interviews with Musk, those close to him, and those who were with him at the most important points of his life.

Table of Contents

	Elon's world
	Africa
	Canada
	Elon's first start-up
	PayPal mafia boss
	Mice in space
	All electric
	Pain, suffering and survival
	Liftoff
	The revenge of the electric car
	The unified field theory of Elon Musk
	Epilogue
	Appendixes.
	Intrigue surrounding Zip2, Musk's academic record
	Musk's time at Paypal and the coup
	Memo to SpaceX personnel : going public

Early Life of Elon Musk

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. – Elon MuskMusk was born June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa the son of Maye (née Haldeman), a model from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; and Errol Musk, a South African-born electromechanical engineer.

Things are there when you see them

A philosophical statement! But I realised its relevance after working at KV Pattom.

"Things are there when you see them"

When we see s bench or a desk in front of us, we can say that they are there. When we go home and come back the next day, the desks and benches are there, then alos we can say that they are there now. But when we were not looking at them, when we were at home, we cannot say that the benches and desks were there. If someone takes all or some of those desks and benches and puts them back in position before we came back to see them, we tend to feel that those were there, but the assumption may be quite untrue, especially when you are at KV Pattom.

KV Pattom is blessed with so many activities and the students get brilliant exposure to all these by which they learn a lot without studying. Being in KV Pattom itself is a blessing for a child. Many students realise this only when they get out of the campus. Even those with very low marks in exams are often astonished to find how they got trained in KV Pattom that they can catch up with others in many fields. Then only they come to know that they were learning life at KV pattom.

The multifarious activities occurring recurrently here help them have a basic knowledge of many things which they might not have studied inside the classroom.

Kavaratti Scenes

I had the opportunity to visit Kavaratti as part of duty when I was deputed to teach students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Kavaratti to improve their performance and thus the Board result.

I would like to share the photographs I took during my tenure there.

To be where you are is to keep running

To achieve something great is strenuous, but more strenuous it is to remain in the greatness achieved.
Quite often I say that "if you feel like the world is very fast, realize that it is not the world running fast, but it is you running lazily, slower than the rest of the world"


Running along or running behind will not lead you to success. So, if you want to win the race, you should definitely run FASTER.
So, run faster ... means work harder and smarter and win the race!

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