Originally posted by Dogg Thang
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I've never been one of the army of weird "fans" of Musk; however, I've been really surprised to see how things have gone with him recently. Just because I remember years ago, he was demonstrating these roof tiles that would generate solar power, and I watched the video, and it was clear that he has absolutely zero charisma as a public speaker.
Now, this in itself isn't a criticism. Some of history's worst dictators have been skilled orators. But usually, when someone is a grifter, they tend to be quite good at working a crowd, speaking to people, getting their buy-in. Musk clearly lacks those skills. At the time, this made me wonder if he actually was some sort of genius in private, because it just seems so strange that someone could be so successful while lacking in those skills.
Though practically everything else I've seen since that moment has basically shown his success was down to a combination of luck, generational wealth, and probably some business expertise, but not on some sort of genius level.
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