{"id":233010,"date":"2023-09-11T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mystylenews.com\/?p=233010"},"modified":"2023-09-11T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:08:18","slug":"musk-can-hardly-remember-his-demon-like-outbursts-biographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mystylenews.com\/world-news\/musk-can-hardly-remember-his-demon-like-outbursts-biographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk can 'hardly remember' his 'demon-like outbursts' – biographer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk\u00a0has frequent ‘demon-like outbursts’ but he can hardly even remember them once the red mist has faded, according to his biographer.<\/p>\n
Walter Isaacson’s much-anticipated memoir about the world’s richest man has been plugged as a deep-dive into the dark psychology of the Twitter tsar and his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of the book’s release on Tuesday September 12, Isaacson said he believes the SpaceX\u00a0founder has been ‘volatile his whole life’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘He has so many personalities, almost like multiple personalities,’\u00a0the 71-year-old author told <\/span>MSNBC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ‘He’ll go from being very giddy, or being in engineering mode where he can figure out the valve of a (SpaceX rocket) Raptor engine, and suddenly the clouds come.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elon Musk has frequent ‘demon-like outbursts’ but he can hardly even remember them once the red mist has faded, according to his biographer<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Walter Isaacson’s much-anticipated memoir about the world’s richest man has been plugged as a deep-dive into the dark psychology of the Twitter tsar and his family. (Pictured: Isaacson speaking about the biography on MSNBC the day before its release)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Claire Boucher, known by her stage name Grimes, wrote a tweet last week that triggered speculation of distress among the growing Musk clan<\/p>\n ‘And the amazing thing is after he’s gone dark and been demon-like and really tough on people, he’ll snap out of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘And then I’ll ask him, what was that all about, and he hardly remembers it.<\/p>\n ‘When you ask what it’s like dealing with Elon Musk… well there are many Elon Musks in this book.’\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Isaacson’s explosive Elon biography is due to be released in September 2023\u00a0<\/p>\n Isaacson previously said the term ‘demon mode’ was coined by music artist Grimes, the mother to the most recent three of 52-year-old Musk’s 11 children.\u00a0<\/p>\n Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, is also making headlines\u00a0after issuing a ceasefire with one of the billionaire’s other baby mamas over their turbulent lines of communication and access to her children.\u00a0<\/p>\n This follows the\u00a0recent revelation\u00a0that Musk and Grimes had a son in secret – his eleventh child\u00a0who was named Techno Mechanicus, but who they have been calling Tao.<\/p>\n Isaacson said chronicling Musk’s life became ‘a hell of a lot more of a rollercoaster ride’ after he bought Twitter and rebranded it as X – which is also when the darker side of his personality began to emerge more clearly\u00a0in the public sphere.\u00a0<\/p>\n The biography also reportedly includes gory details about a fight between Musk and his younger brother Kimbal.<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Gv-qfOTfYYs%3Frel%3D0%26start%3D23 Isaacson observed Musk’s day-to-day life for two years, including during his Twitter takeover when he fired more than half the workforce\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Canadian musician Grimes in 2018 at a SpaceX competition<\/p>\n Isaacson writes that Kimbal ‘tore off a hunk of flesh’ from his older brother’s hand as they wrestled on the floor of Zip2’s office where they worked together in the 1990s, according to Insider.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kimbal is said to have launched the rabid attack because he thought Elon was about to punch him in the face – and it left the billionaire needing stitches and a tetanus jab in the emergency room.\u00a0<\/p>\n Isaacson will be releasing his Elon expos\u00e9 tomorrow, adding to the collection of big-name biographies he has previously penned on the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n He spent two years observing Musk go about his daily life and conducted interviews with him and members of his family to build a picture of his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n His book chronicles Musk’s rise to fame through his SpaceX ventures, selling a million cars through Tesla, and becoming the richest man alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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