Right. He's spent his entire adult life being told by established voices that what he thinks or wants to do is insane. "No one lands rockets, it's far too complicated and a waste of time." "There hasn't been a successful new American car company in decades." etc. As it turned out, for a lot of those things in the technological realm, Elon was right and literally everyone else was wrong. It's understandable (if not excusable) that years of this could cause him to err towards trusting his gut in things completely outside his expertise.
The “if I don’t personally do it, it must be easy” assumption 😄
Right. He's spent his entire adult life being told by established voices that what he thinks or wants to do is insane. "No one lands rockets, it's far too complicated and a waste of time." "There hasn't been a successful new American car company in decades." etc. As it turned out, for a lot of those things in the technological realm, Elon was right and literally everyone else was wrong. It's understandable (if not excusable) that years of this could cause him to err towards trusting his gut in things completely outside his expertise.