Why Elon Musk Doesn’t Take Vacations
Vacations will kill you according to Elon Musk
The man (Elon Musk) who is too busy trying to solve the world’s problems, likely deserves a vacation. Yet the number of times Elon Musk has kicked up his feet during his entire adult life can pretty much be counted on one hand, and when he has tried to go on vacation, it hasn’t always worked out.
#1. Incident
While on his honeymoon with his first wife Justine to catch the 2000 Olympics. He got some bad news as soon as they landed at Sydney Airport, or Board of x.com, the precursor to PayPal had decided to fire him as CEO, replacing him with Peter teal, so much for the honeymoon. He flew back to Palo Alto, California to fight to get his job back to no avail.
#2. Incident
He tried to go on his honeymoon again. Three months later. This time he nearly lost his life. While at a Game Reserve in his native South Africa must contract the deadliest form of malaria and didn’t even know it. When he returned to the US and fell ill, doctors misdiagnosed him and he nearly died by sheer luck.
A visiting doctor who happened to have experience with malaria cases, saw his bloodwork suspected he had malaria and immediately ordered antibiotics must get the treatment, just in time as Ashlee Vance details in his book about the entrepreneur.
The doctor told Musk that if he had turned up a day later, or medicine likely would no longer have been effective Musk later told Vance, that’s my lesson for taking a vacation will kill you. He spent 10 days in the intensive care unit and took six months to recover, losing 45 pounds, and the curse continued.
#3. Incident
When he took a week off in October 2014, an unmanned Orbital Sciences Corporation rocket exploded seconds after liftoff. It was supposed to carry food, water, and supplies to the International Space Station. It wasn’t his own rocket, but it was perhaps a sign of things to come in.
#4. Incident
Sure enough, the next time he tried to take a vacation. His SpaceX rocket exploded. But listen yes, don’t take a week off and Musk has pretty much lived up to that promise with few exceptions. He claims he doesn’t have time to slow down, not even on his birthday.
When he turned 47, he was hard at work at Tesla’s factory. In fact, he stayed there all night. In a previous video, I talked about how he’s been known to sleep at work. That year, in particular, 2018 was excruciating Lee painful. He put in 120 hour work weeks, as the electric automaker struggled to mass-produce its most affordable vehicle yet.
Model three taking time off as his employees sweated on the factory floor it was out of the question, explaining to CBS, I don’t believe people should be experiencing hardship, while the CEO is off on vacation. Tesla got over that painful period, but Musk isn’t slowing down as he juggles several companies. He recently revealed that his brain-machine interfaces startup neuro.
