In 1989, a 17-year-old Elon Musk landed in Montreal with about $4,000, half from his mom, Maye, who cashed out a stock account she had opened with money she'd won in a beauty contest as a teenager, and a list of relatives he had never met. The uncle he planned to call had already left town, so he checked into a youth hostel, shared a room with five strangers, and after a week bought a $100 Greyhound pass to cross Canada to a cousin's farm in Saskatchewan. Somewhere along the way the driver unloaded his suitcase with his traveler's checks and clothes, and all he had left was a backpack full of books, while getting the checks replaced took weeks. Elon called his cousin with the coins in his pocket and spent weeks cleaning grain bins and helping raise a barn, celebrating his 18th birthday with a homemade cake on his cousin’s farm. Then he rode on to Vancouver and chose the hardest job on the board, cleaning lumber mill boilers for $18 an hour. Elon has always been strong-willed and never shied away from the most challenging work to achieve his goals. That is true determination! I admire him for that 🩵