The Psychology of Elon Musk (Chapter 3 - No Friends)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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00:00 Why didn't Elon Musk have friends growing up?
11:51 How did he spend his time as a kid?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, German listeners, this is Chapter 3 in our deep dive on the psychology of Elon Musk. |
| 0:05.7 | My name is Dr. Kirk Hana. I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 0:08.9 | My name is Umberto Kastagna, and I train circus termites. |
| 0:12.2 | So let's start where we left off. |
| 0:14.0 | Here's the part of my outline where I mentioned that |
| 0:17.0 | Elon Musk was severely abused by his father. |
| 0:20.0 | There will be later chapters where we will talk about that at length as it relates to |
| 0:26.3 | Elon Musk's development and his psychology. Now let's talk about how he didn't have very many friends. |
| 0:34.3 | He had trouble making friends as a child. |
| 0:36.9 | In Ashley Vance's biography, she interviewed Elon and his family members and she wrote, |
| 0:42.4 | Elon's constant yearning to correct people |
| 0:45.6 | and his abrasive manner put off other kids |
| 0:49.0 | and added to his feelings of isolation. |
| 0:51.6 | Elon genuinely thought that people would be happy to hear about the flaws in their thinking. |
| 0:57.2 | Ashley Vance went on to write that his mom would try to help Elon by telling him that other kids don't like to play that way, |
| 1:05.0 | but Elon still struggled in socializing and making friends. |
| 1:10.0 | She also wrote that his brother and sister would bring home friends while Elon never did. |
| 1:15.0 | His mother would ask his siblings, his younger siblings by the way, to include Elon when the friends would come over but his two younger siblings would say but mom he's not fun. So any thoughts on this bird that's |
| 1:30.1 | sorry well so first of all it's not unusual for siblings to not want to include other siblings with their friends. |
| 1:39.0 | I can relate. But usually that's the other direction where your parents are saying include your younger sibling |
| 1:46.4 | Yeah not to a younger sibling include the older yeah that's totally true it is usually the other direction. |
| 1:53.3 | If they were moving constantly and if he was |
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