Tesla Billionaire Elon Musk Likes 'Extreme Sports’ But Also Reads About Science And Inventors

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Space X CEO and Tesla Motors product creator Elon Musk is no ordinary CEO. And it is not unusual for CEOs to engage in extreme sports or activities. Musk recently went "wing walking" on an airplane with his wife. What else does he like to do? Elon is an avid reader and here are some of his favorite books about science and the personalities behind scientific discoveries, techtimes.com reported.

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk is someone who can stretch the extra mile, a rare quality that CEOs are required to possess. Literary, the Tesla CEOs drive for life and enthusiasm gives him the edge to make sustainable electric cars and impressive spaceships.

Elon Musk's must-read list is shown below:
Previously, Inc.com reviewed Bill Gates's summer reading list and the books that Steve Jobs wanted people to read.

Inc.com notes that Tesla's Billionaire Elon Musk's reading recommendations are different from the kind of books Bill Gates or Steve Jobes reads or would like others to read. Musk's reading suggests is always about science and without a doubt it's befitting to know how things work in the tech realm, whether it pertains to smartphones or an Android system loaded on a Tesla or a BMW for GPS and other tailor made facilities that can enhance a car's performance.

Topping the list of books suggested by Elon Musk are

1. "Benjamin Franklin" by Walter Isaacson
2. Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
3. Einstein by Walter Isaacson
4.Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
5. Ignition! by John D. Clark
6. Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
7. Structures by J. E. Gordon
8. Super-intelligence by Nick Bostrom
9. Zero to One by Author: Peter Thiel

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