It bothers Musk a bit that his kids wont suffer like he did. He feels that the suffering helped to make him who he is and gave him extra reserves of strength and will. They might have a little adversity at school, but these days schools are so protective, he said. If you call someone a name, you get sent home. When I was going to school, if they punched you and there was no blood, it was like, Whatever. Shake it off. Even if there was a little blood, but not a lot, it was fine. What do I do? Create artificial adversity? How do you do that? The biggest battle I have is restricting their video game time because they want to play all the time. The rule is they have to read more than they play video games. They also cant play completely stupid video games. Theres one game they downloaded recently called Cookies or something. You literally tap a fucking cookie. Its like a Psych 101 experiment. I made them delete the cookie game. They had to play Flappy Golf instead, which is like Flappy Bird, but at least there is some physics involved.

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance