What’s Made Elon Musk So Successful? It Comes Down to These 5 Personality Traits

What’s Made Elon Musk So Successful? It Comes Down to These 5 Personality Traits
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, participates in a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on May 27, 2020. Saul Martinez/Getty Images
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We can rattle off Elon Musk’s accomplishments in our sleep: co-founder of monetary giant PayPal; founder of Tesla Motors, the electric car company that is changing the world; and founder of Space X, which is focused on space exploration and space travel, and has even sent NASA to the International Space Station on his spacecraft.

We can also absentmindedly rattle off a stream of adjectives that describe him and his leadership qualities: innovator, leader, genius, visionary, futurist, and entrepreneur.

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