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Elon Musk's ex-girlfriend Grimes once said he lives below the poverty line by choice.
While dating the richest man alive, she watched him live like a broke college student. No house. No possessions. Same meals every day. Sleeping wherever the factory needed him that week. She said she once realized she hadn't seen him eat sitting down in three days.
She said something that stuck with me. He doesn't experience pleasure from things. Not cars. Not houses. Not luxury. The only thing that produces visible joy is progress. A rocket landing. A production target hit. His face would change when a test succeeded in a way it never changed for anything else. Including her.
This is why SpaceX sends a stuffed mascot named Asteroid to space. A normal CEO would think it's unprofessional. Musk does it because even a toy leaving Earth is progress. The mission includes everything. Even play.
Most people work to fund comfort. The comfort becomes the point. The work becomes the cost. Musk eliminated the gap entirely. Every dollar, every hour goes to the mission. Nothing leaks.
The thing you think you want is not the thing that makes you extraordinary. The willingness to stop wanting it is.
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