Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife Justine Musk on What She Learned Living With an Extreme Entrepreneurial Success

Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife Justine Musk on What She Learned Living With an Extreme Entrepreneurial Success
Justine Musk arrives at Global Green USA's 8th annual pre-Oscar party "Greener Cities For A Cooler Planet" held at Avalon in Hollywood, Calif. on Feb. 23, 2011. Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Global Green
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That’s according to the intimate perspective of Elon Musk’s ex-wife Justine Musk, formerly Justine Wilson, who was wed to the Tesla Motors businessman for nearly a decade.
Those who have achieved “extreme success,” says Justine, who divorced Elon in 2008, live differently than most others. “These people tend to be freaks and misfits who were forced to experience the world in an unusually challenging way,” she wrote in response to a question on the user-generated response platform Quora back in 2015. “They don’t think the way other people think. They see things from angles that unlock new ideas and insights. Other people consider them to be somewhat insane.”
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