Malcolm Gladwell argues that we have to spend 10,000 hours in order to master a skill. Elon Musk has worked 100 hours a week for more than 15 years which is a total of 76,000 hours. Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why he is one of the biggest outliers. Elon Musk was born pretty far away from here in South Africa. He had a hard time growing up and going to school because he was really bullied. In fact he was once hospitalized because a group of his friends threw him down the stairs and then beat him until he passed out. For Elon Musk, reading and computers is what made him succeed through school and life. When he was only 12 years old, he taught himself computer programming and at the age of 10 he began really interested in computers. In
