The Psychology of Elon Musk (Chapter 15 - Twitter Trauma)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, several listeners, this is Chapter 15 in our deep dive on the psychology of Elon Musk. |
| 0:05.7 | My name is Dr. Kirkhana. I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 0:08.9 | And my name is Umberto Kastagna, and I build and sell garage closers. |
| 0:13.2 | Okay, so in this chapter, the main thing I want to talk about |
| 0:17.4 | is what I'm calling the Twitter spiral. |
| 0:20.7 | In the last chapter, we talked about how psychodynamic theory can potentially explain at least what it looks like from afar when we observe Elon Musk's behavior in terms of the more recent behavior online on |
| 0:35.9 | Twitter. It helps to provide a model of understanding that, plus in-group out-group |
| 0:40.1 | dynamics that we are talking about. But I want to be more specific just to Twitter |
| 0:45.6 | and some of the things that are notable in terms |
| 0:48.8 | of what has happened since he purchased it. |
| 0:51.7 | So I also need to mention that we're recording this on |
| 0:54.8 | September 9th even though this chapter will air in mid-October. A lot might |
| 1:00.5 | happen between now and then. Maybe Twitter doesn't exist in mid-October. |
| 1:04.7 | I don't know. |
| 1:05.4 | But I feel like I need to mention that because people might say, |
| 1:07.8 | how come you know talking about this one thing? |
| 1:09.4 | Because it seems like every day there's another thing. |
| 1:11.3 | But anyway, so as a reminder for Elon Musk's |
| 1:14.3 | childhood he was in constant trauma high level. As a therapist I have heard a lot of |
| 1:19.9 | stories of childhood trauma. Elon Musk is is one of the worst I've heard. |
| 1:25.0 | His parents fighting his dad, beating his mom repeatedly. |
| 1:30.0 | Elon Musk himself trying to defend his mother against his father at the age of five years old, you know, hitting his father, stop hitting mom and dad beating him, |
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