The Polytopia Life Lessons from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

It's not too often that I both love and hate advice... This is from the book Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson: "“We called them Polytopia Life Lessons.” Among them: ✨Empathy is not an asset.✨ “He knows that I have an empathy gene, unlike him, and it has hurt me in business,” Kimbal says. “Polytopia taught me how he thinks when you remove empathy. When you’re playing a video game, there is no empathy, right?” ✨Play life like a game.✨ “I have this feeling,” Zilis once told Musk, “that as a kid you were playing one of these strategy games and your mom unplugged it, and you just didn’t notice, and you kept playing life as if it were that game.” ✨Do not fear losing.✨ “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks. ✨Be proactive.✨ “I’m a little bit Canadian pacifist and reactive,” Zilis says. “My gameplay was a hundred percent reactive to what everyone el...