8 Life Lessons Elon Musk Learned From Playing Strategy Games like Polytopia
Parents don't want to read what Walter Isaacson said in his biography of Elon Musk.
“Your son will never be a successful member of society.” the teacher told the parents.
“Why?” they asked.
“He loves playing computer games.” the teacher continued. “This is psychologically very problematic. Studies say that kids who play computer games have a strong risk of having mental health issues later in life or worse.”
This was the general opinion in rural Austria when the discussion moved to playing computer games.
It was the 1980s, and the global rollout of computer games was a new phenomenon. It had started in the late 1970s, and not enough time had passed to complete such studies.
But, games were new. That's why they were automatically deemed evil.
Almost five decades have passed, and those early gamer kids are in their late 40s and early 50s.
One of them was Elon Musk. The world's most successful entrepreneurs in the last five years.
It was a revelation reading in Walter Isaacson's Biography about Elon Musk that he has built a solid "addiction" to playing strategy…
