RE: Elon Musk: The Unedited, Uncensored Version of My Rolling Stone Cover Story

You are viewing a single comment's thread from:

Elon Musk: The Unedited, Uncensored Version of My Rolling Stone Cover Story

in elonmusk •  7 years ago 

Omg... @neilstrauss is it really you? Thé Neil Strauss? "The Game" Neil Strauss? Well if so, then it's an honor to meet you... A few years ago, that book of yours changed my life.

At first the "Mystery" character (looking funny, using cheap card tricks, doing drugs, gaming women like they're robots) almost made me close the book and shred it to pieces, yet I continued reading it all and then started to interpret its meaning differently, in an almost holistic way: I concluded that the core take-away of "The Game" is that I should always be me 100% at 100% of the time in 100% of situations, where Mystery is Mystery. I'm sorry so many "male pick-up artist communities" formed underground, not getting that core take-away and copying literally every trick from the book. You probably didn't want that.

I never had problems meeting women, yet I read your book getting notified about it from some stranger guy that talked to me in the middle of the night in a bar when I was celebrating my (next-day) birthday with some friends that already wandered off being drunk, while three days before that I ended my relationship that lasted for almost 9 years and I was suddenly in unknown territories. "Read The Game" he said smiling, then walked away with a nice looking female, that I dated the week after, and over 100 more in 4 years after that.

But that's not the end of the story, because through a strange coincidence I both met a wonderful woman I'm with for over 3 years now, and at the same time a couple of former business partners of mine went rogue behind my back causing all sorts of stress situations, and I also read up about Elon Musk's story via waitbutwhy.com. I got so fascinated by the Elon story, his revolutionary ideas, giving away patents to the entire car industry not to make Tesla wealthier but so that the whole world would drive on electricity using any automobile brand, and about SpaceX, and about Neuralink, and OpenAI, and his mission to save humanity, that I talked to people close to me about it, passionately, making them think that I went nuts, them stating to me "the world is not ready for these ideas of yours" (where I only tried to give a summary of Elon's endeavors). I even got intro trouble once more, only talking about it, and by being me. (I think I need to re-read The Game..).

Yesterday, when I saw this article trending, about Elon, I instantly resteemd it before reading it, as my personal bookmark, only to realize today that YOU are YOU. Is that a coincidence? A cosmic thing? Or a simple matter of media power, where it's almost impossible to miss at Steemit? Anyway, I just had to write this.

Question: I read somewhere the past weeks that Musk once owned a few BTC, but lost access to it, and never cared about it. Is that true, and if so then why? How can it be possible that "the world's most Rad Man" doesn't know about / care for crypto? How can he not see its relevance?
Personally, I'm not 100% for decentralization, because I believe any human community / organization needs some form of leadership to function efficiently. And I'm not against fiat or paying taxes either. But I am PRO crypto, as a relatively new asset class, combining tech, privacy, independence, freedom and unlimited opportunity. And I am PRO Steem, I'm very active for @utopian-io , the Open Source sub-community of Steem, trying to improve and 'sanitize' the entire Steem ecosystem for the greater good, trying to help make it ready for mass-adoption. Although perhaps the world is not ready for that either...?

In any case, again, it's an honor to meet you, I really hope you read this message.

Thx, your pupil @scipio

Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

@neilstrauss ,what an impact you make on Steemit. @scipio I really hope you have the chance to meet in real life. Your dedication, passion is awesome.

Meeting in person would be much effective for you guys (y)
Goooo FOR IT @iarticle

Funny thing is that Elon musk is a huge fan of Dogecoin.

https://www.poof.io/dogecoin

Dogecoin payment gateways like Poof are hilariously popular.

Especially when people sell stuff on Stores like on https://www.poof.io/ecommerce for doge.

great :)

@neilstrauss Yes you are right, he does share striking articles

Awesome man, keep it up

@neilstrauss , if you know Elon Musk, then introduce @scipio to him. I talk to @scipio at Discord chat, and I genuinely think the man is a genius. I really do. @scipio is extremely smart, kind, a good person, an engineer and a strategist himself. And he has ideas, technically so advanced, I'm sure Musk WANTS to meet @scipio. Just read his article How-to solve SPAM and Democratize Steem: Introducing UserAuthority to get an idea what Scipio can do. He published that after 3 weeks on Steemit. He's only here since 60 days, like I am myself.

@umais, this is the coolest compliment somebody ever gave me. Thank you.
It would actually be a dream come true for me, if I could ever talk to, let alone work with Elon Musk...

Merry Christmas

You deserve this and I hope you can make it

Cheers!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

It would be a great idea indeed, please try to arrange a meeting :)

So when is the meeting happening?

WHAT A GREAT ARTICLE, feels like I'm reading a NEWSPAPER. I didn't know that there are such LONG articles on @Steemit (I'm new here by the way, just joined today) :)

Welcome! I just upgraded your reputation from 25 to 29 in one click! ;-)

Yes, It's really him.

💙 Great post. Very good writing,i like this post 💙

       💛 Thanks for sharing  💛

open music gif.gif

Personally, I'm not 100% for decentralization, because I believe any human community / organization needs some form of leadership to function efficiently.

Agree!:)

There's always the possibility of the leader being corrupt.

GOOD message 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great work sir!!! keep it up.

“The point of the book,” Musk is saying about Hitchhiker’s, “was that the universe is the answer. And what really matters is trying to understand what questions to ask. What’s the right question?”

Any ideas?

I’m afraid one day Elon will realize that most people aren’t that smart and will lose his motivation to save humanity.

Elon Musk is definity the REAL Tony Stark (aka Iron Man)

Thank you for sharing it with us !

Thank you for sharing... :)

such a fan you are!!awesome

@neilstrauss and @scipio, thanks for the great article neil and also your comment scipio, it shows very nicely how we can inspire each other to become more than we initially have been, to look up instead of down.
Knowing @scipio a bit and having the fun to sometimes work together with him in utopian i can only stress the other comments in how a meeting between elon and scipio could possibly lead to fantastic opportunities..
Kind regards
Jan

it was nice very beautfuly written post i love to read to it

Damn, So Good!

I guess he would probably invest some of his money to crypto..why not??

@neilstrauss thank you for sharing this interview. I always love to read stuff about Elon Musk, great mind and invention.

I'm looking forward for your next interview, who will that be?

Cheers,
@Yehey

Thanks, @yehey. I have something unexpected in mind for the next one: One of my favorite stories I wrote, and the only story of mine that was ever killed and never published.

I believe that's worth waiting. Please do let me know when its publish. I love to read stories of great minds.

Cheers and keep in touch.
@Yehey

Fascinating figure, Musk, a real visionary - many thanks, for this peek behind the scenes, @neilstrauss.

At the risk of great immodesty, I will propose myself for a future story of yours - as an immigrant, Muslim and aphorist, trying to do some good in Trump's America through my art.

Here's a profile on PBS NewsHour: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/humble-one-liners-can-teach-us-times-live

Wishing you continued success, and happy to share more of my story with you, if you like:
http://www.theglobepost.com/2017/08/30/america-immigrant-muslim/

Cheers, Yahia

Would you give Neil a BJ if he let you?

that super wowww looks like dream

Tesla had me fired from my job because of my "White Supremacist" website:

https://tinyurl.com/TeslaUnAmerican

This is happening to thousands of Conservatives. Speak out before it's your turn.

Wasn't he financially backed by one of the corrupt Saudi princes?