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“People who have spent significant time with Musk well test to his abilities to absorb incredible quantities of information with near-flawless recall. It's one of his most impressive and intimidating skills and seems to work just as well in the present day as it did when he was a child vacuuming books into his brain.”

“He would trap an engineer in the SpaceX factory and set to work grilling him about a type of valve or specialized material. ‘I thought at first he was challenging me to see if I knew my stuff, then I realized he was trying to learn things.’”