Elon Musk's bad morning habit and other oddities of the billionaire

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is a guy of routines. He doesn't eat breakfast, he works up to 100 hours a week, and, for some time now, he does something he doesn't like as soon as he wakes up.

In an interview granted to Full Send Podcast, the businessman said: "I have a bad habit of looking at my cell phone immediately."

Elon Musk considers it "a terrible habit," because instead of waking up relaxed, he does so with a tremendous cocktail of (sometimes shocking) information.

The problem with this bad habit is that 70% of Americans, according to a report by IDC Research, also look at their mobile within the first 15 minutes after waking up. And 62% do it the moment they open their eyes.

In the case of Elon Musk, he wants to change his bad habit and replace those 20 minutes of phone time with exercise. "I need to exercise and get in better shape."

If the richest man in the world begins to improve his habits and have a clearer mind, he might start making decisions that are good for the world. Not a bad idea at all!

He has a net worth of 232.4 billion dollars, he is the richest man in the world and, so it seems, he enjoys this position of extreme power very much.

During his time as a student at Queen's University in Ontario, in the 90s, Elon Musk survived on a dollar a day. That's how much he had left after paying for his studies and living expenses.

As stated in his biography, his diet was based on hot dogs and oranges that he bought wholesale. It was a time when Musk realized that he could go far. Not everyone could manage to live on 30 dollars a month, he thought, so he must be special.

By now, Musk is one of the most powerful people in the world. For this reason, everything he does, says, or predicts is newsworthy. Both for the good and the bad.

Ashlee Vance, author of the 2015 biography of the billionaire - 'Elon Musk: The Businessman who Anticipates the Future' - says that Musk likes to test those who apply for jobs with him. He likes to take them down unusual paths.

One of the riddles that Elon Musk gives to the applicants in his job interviews is very strange indeed.

"You're standing on the surface of the Earth and you walk a mile south, a mile west, and a final mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?"
A difficult riddle?

One of the valid answers to this riddle is the North Pole. In fact, it is what most applicants say when confronted with this riddle, Ashlee Vance writes in the biography. Strangely, however, the matter does not end there. The employer has a second question.

"Where else could you be?" is Musk's counter-reply. The answer, as Vance describes it, would be the South Pole. If you go that route towards the south, you travel a distance that is exactly the same as the circumference of the Earth.

With this riddle, Elon Musk does not intend to discredit or confuse candidates. He just wants to see how they react to an unexpected question that is far from usual in a job interview.

Experts in Human Resources point out that these types of questions offer a real insight into the candidates. They measure the answer they give, their way of reasoning, their physical reaction to the riddle, and even the question of whether they respond to the riddle with humor. Not everything in the hiring process centers on your CV.

Obviously, Elon Musk's oddities and curiosities are not limited to the office where he conducts job interviews. The eccentricities of the businessman might well be what generated his innovative work and success.

Let's have a look, for example, at the name of the son he had with the Canadian singer Grimes in 2020. His child's name is X Æ A-Xii. It is pronounced as 'X AI Archangel.'

Grimes explained the name on Twitter. The X is the mathematical variable that represents an unknown. Æ is the elvish spelling for AI (Artificial Intelligence) and love in various languages.

The A-Xii is the precursor to the SR-17, the pair's favorite aircraft. And the A stands for 'Archangel,' the title of the couple's favorite song by the artist Burial.

By the way, the count of Elon Musk's children already reaches nine. With Justine Wilson, his first wife, he had five children, in addition to a sixth who died at the age of ten weeks. With Grimes, he has two children.

And recently, by surprise, two more arrived.

Elon Musk's most recent two children have been a big surprise. He had them with Shivon Zilis, the director of Neuralink projects, as confirmed by Business Insider.

The twins would have been born in November 2021, according to Business Insider, which is a month before the birth of Exa Dark Sideræl, Musk's second child with Grimes (via surrogacy).

Apart from his strange parenting, hiring, and morning habits, Elon Musk is making headlines for his visions of the future. His warnings about the evolution of Artificial Intelligence have not gone unnoticed.

Owning companies like Neuralink and OpenAI, based on Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk claims to have inside knowledge that AI could endanger the existence of the human race. He paints a picture that resonates with what we see in the movies.

To avoid this from happening, Musk proposes regulation of AI at the international level. This is quite unusual for the billionaire because he normally doesn't like government meddling with business very much. So what is the thing that is so scary about AI, that he knows and we don't?