We all know that man in the picture below.

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who took this position in the year 2021.

I am sure there isn't anyone that doesn't know the success story of Mr Musk.

But just like we all love to focus on the glimmering surface and ignore the rough journey and process, what most people don't know is that he has also had tons of failures and hardships in a row.

Mr Musk was born June 28th 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa to Erol Musk and Mate Haldeman.

With these two pairs, Elon Musk certainly didn't have a beautiful childhood as you would expect of any bright child to.

He himself mentioned that his dad had serious issues.

Elon Musk in an Interview; 

"It was very violent, not a happy childhood."

He called his dad a terrible person who was capable of evil deeds.

His dad would always abuse his mum both physically and verbally. At Elon's young growing age in tech, his father even deprived him of some of the basic things such as a computer to start a career his business saying,

"They would never amount to anything"

Elon Musk was also a victim of bully in school. His bullies would throw him off the stairs and beat him till he blacked out.

Sad, isn't it?

Starting out his Business and following his own path wasn't also a smooth ride.

After being rejected and ignored by Tech companies he applied to when he finished college. He went ahead to start one of his own, Zip 2.

Zip 2 struggled in the early years and most investors had zero interest in funding the idea. Well eventually, it succeeded after a few years and got good amount of investors.

But then again, "bad luck" strikes again. 

Elon Musk was removed from the position of the CEO of the company and given a much smaller role on the basis that he can't manage the company well enough.

 L.O.L… A company he founded himself 

A bit funny right?

How would You feel if that happened to You?

Well much later, he moved on. He sold Zip 2 and started working on a new project which we would know now as PayPal.

Do You Know PayPal was initially voted "The World Business Concept of The Year"?

      Believe it or not,it was       

But of course, Elon kept pushing and PayPal became successful in 2002.

Then he started up Tesla and Space X

The idea of Tesla upset so many experts in the auto mobile industry. They said that it was sure to fail and expressed their deep unsupport for the idea openly.

That did manifest for a little bit.

In 2008, the Tesla stock almost completely collapsed due to insufficient funds.

Elon decided to use all of his personal money to get the company up and running again. And get this, two years later he was completely broke.

He resorted to borrowing money from friends to enable him survive and pay his rent.

Space X...

Space X also was expected to fail woefully.

Have You ever had someone who You looked up to as a role model and it turned out that the person didn't support You?

That was how Elon Musk felt when top Astronauts like Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan didn't believe in the idea of SpaceX.

 This also failed in the first, second and third attempts of launching. It succeeded in the fourth attempt and Elon keeps pushing and working on even yet bigger missions to change the world.

 I could mention so many other failures Mr Musk encountered before he could get where he is today.

When he had no home, slept on his office couch and took showers in a nearby gym.

When his childhood heroes who inspired his visions didn't believe in him.

But despite all, Elon still pushed on and of course he succeeded and he is still doing much more. Now worth $237.9Billion.

So endeavour to think twice before quitting on that idea.

Learn to Fail Like Mr Musk.

Fail, Learn, Get up and Keep Going till You Succeed.

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and a giant lock..

memories never last

awful, awesome,horrific and amazing past

are right there where the belong

buried in there,and can't tag along.

night of long sighs and tears

aching heart and lot of fears..

oppression,affliction and depression

stinging pains with no affection.

tears only form a pool to drown

happiness gives a growl and frown..

spanked real hard with unseen rod

and watch it give a positive nod.

'It' raised it tentacle

and no hope for a miracle..

lost patience and faith

accepting defeat as fate.

chained and held captive

Never allowed to leave..

mocked at,with an evil grin

that's a game a win_win.

leaving the trophy behind

and struggling hard with a weak mind..

heart and dreams shattered

set goals now scattered

no more strength to fight

with no doubt it can't be alright.

just one last breath

Sincerely pleading to death..

but it played a deaf ear

Perhap it wasn't allowed to hear,

Because...

Mission haven't been accomplished..

pains and rejections are meant to get one polish

There's still glimpse of hope,a light at the end of the tunnel.

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