Elon Musk's real advantage has never been just his intelligence, diligence, or ambition.

There are too many people in the world with these qualities, so many that if these conditions were enough to create a Musk, there should be "Musk substitutes" everywhere on Earth.

That's not the case.

What truly sets him apart is a very rare mental structure:

Maintain a transcendent clarity in a highly chaotic world.

When others become emotional in the face of pressure, narratives, and inertia, being led by the larger environment, he can maintain rationality even when the system noise is at its peak, returning to the first principles of the problem when everyone is swept up in emotions.

So it seems that the decisions he made are very extreme and crazy.

But essentially, when others are completely surrounded by bias, fear, and path dependence, he is actually the only one who remains clear-headed.