Is Elon Musk a genius? I wouldn't go that far, but he is very smart/thinker. I actually now see him as a bit of a Steve Jobs type, Musk has the skills to identity other people uniquely (autistic level?) skilled at a job and sets them to work to implement his own vision, and Musks vision is often good ideas that he might of picked up from other people.
Steve Jobs did the same, he had Steve Wozniak and used his basically autistic level smarts in electrics to build the first Apple computer.
When Steve Jobs saw Xerox with the very first "graphical user interface operating system" complete with a "mouse", Steve Jobs knew he had to copy it. Xerox weren't selling and just sitting on it like a private computer science project.
Steve Jobs was smart enough to get Bill Gates to create his first GUI operating system which would widely be known as the worlds first major GUI OS.
Here is a picture of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together at Steve Jobs home with the plan to make an graphical user interface OS for the Apple, this was BEFORE MS came out with MS Windows that changed everything between Steve and Gates.
To me the most disappointing thing I have seen Musk do is his Solar City business, IMO the Solar City business was pretty much a rotten Wall Street financial type company. Because they weren't doing anything much other than offering to install solar on peoples roofs for free but lock them down to a complex financial deal that even ruined the values of peoples homes, because even when you sold your own home Solar City still owned your solar panels and the power they were generating, the whole thing was a schemey mess.
Here is Musk in his earlier years. rich from software ideas, getting his sports car delivered. It's amazing how much hair loss he had when he was that young.
https://youtu.be/eb3pmifEZ44
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Here is a video from a PhD scientist who often makes videos about various types of different intelligence/minds out there. This video doesn't really specifically apply to Musk but you can use it to formulate how different special minds exist.
But because some SJWs etc don't like the idea that people can have different levels of intelligence some of his videos actually get deleted from YouTube, and he says he might actually get banned from YouTube.
But some of these videos on human intelligence and the different types of human minds out there are truly fascinating.
I bookmarked the time the video starts at 28seconds in because for some reason he frequently starts his videos off with extremely annoying screams etc, I guess to ward off impatient morons from his channel?
https://youtu.be/XbOu-QxtbI4?t=28
^Watch this video, I can't stress it enough.