Elon’s IQ has to be way up there but it seems like there is no one in his life that has the guts to tell him his EQ is nowhere near his IQ?
It’s clear he shouldn’t be granting interviews or sending tweets without moderation. He needs a consigliere to read these situations and keep him out of trouble.
No doubt I feel Elon is a pretty pure person totally honest without a filter or camoflogue. A bright white bird in a green forest is easy meal for vultures.
I wrote Tesla IR last year for all the good that did on Elon never ever commenting on stock price.
It’s cute and humble to think you don’t deserve a certain valuation. However there are real ramifications to non billionaire stockholders and employees when one says such things.
In no uncertain terms Elon threw his investors and employees under the bus for no reason and nothing to gain when he did that.
Showing weakness is admirable to good people.
Complete foolishness when you do it in front of your enemies.
[="MXWing, post: 2963580, member: 53554"]Feel free to disagree. Those hurt me much less than a 10% stock decline.
An intelligent rebuttal would be appreciated however.
on this, we have to look at it from outside our own point of view. we know so many more details than most, so when a scathing article comes out it infuriates us because we usually can tell/know the difference between the reality and what was written.
the avg reader doesn’t know this. people close to me that recently kinda follow tesla because of me always blabbing about it, are left speechless by the past week and a half. they only know what they see, which doesn’t look good. these haters tactics are an effort to take advantage of em’s methods and expose him in a manner that suits them.
if you think there isn’t strategy behind some of these attacks, you’re naive. the strategy is for them to become the focus. apparently, he says he has been focusing on them (i can’t believe it’s working, or is he just making it seem that way, i dunno).
we (tmc and heavy followers) mostly look past all this stuff (maybe we complain a bit, and some of our reactions are off color, misguided, unwarranted).
the avg person sees this as he’s come off the rails. this matters. they are future customers, future supporters. remember he’s only garnered support from very few %age of people thus far. the ‘masses’ either don’t know or don’t care yet.
their strategy of making him look like an a-hole is so that he never gains 20, 30, 40 % of public support. taking him off his game, it’s a self fulfilling strategy.
then, they win!
he must know this. if he doesn’t know his, and is actually falling for it, that’s a problem. and maybe he needs someone around to gut check him once in a while. i don’t know, but i’m just saying.
he must try not to do anything that jeopardizes this so early in the mission. while millions of us support him, only a few hundred thousand have purchased products. that’s not enough in the long run. with the forces he’s going up against, he needs 10s upon 10s of millions of voices (of which millions may actually purchase products). i can’t even buy a tesla in CT yet, that’s ridiculous. there’s not enough voices to sway the st govt (we tried repeatedly and got smacked down). this is what i’m talking about. so it’s easy for tesla folk to tell me i’m an idiot, and elon is elon. ok fine, i know this (been following daily since 2011). but what
we think, isn’t the problem right now. it’s continuing the grass roots and expanding support until we reach tipping point. and that’s what’s under fire right now, because that’s the next logical spot in the battle plan. they failed at spoiling S, X, and 3. so now it’s turn him on his supporters, or vice verse, or stifle any new support.
he must find a way to reconcile the fact that the media is going to amplify the hatred, but underneath that bullshit, many really love him. and the reason we love him is because of his forward thinking, ingenuity, zero BS tolerance, etc etc etc... can go on all day.
through the noise, his supporters are what matters. and the more he focuses supporters, the more supporters gained.
EM, don’t let them take you off your game, because they don’t really matter. their job is to fool us into thinking you’re something you’re not. your job is to do what you’ve always done. that makes us love you. and many more will once you shrug off the haters. they aren’t worth it. but help us increase our team, and we will mop the floor with them in the end!