I agree he’s exceptionally well in contact with reality. But also part of his “setting goals” involves making “predictions” about timelines. Which are very often wrong, quantitatively (while being correct “in spirit” in the sense that they achieve the goal, just later than “predicted”).
Elon is one of the least delusional people. Not many people start companies like Elon when they believe there’s only a ten percent chance of success.
Elon sets goals that often won’t be archieved but that’s not the same as having delusional beliefs.
I agree he’s exceptionally well in contact with reality. But also part of his “setting goals” involves making “predictions” about timelines. Which are very often wrong, quantitatively (while being correct “in spirit” in the sense that they achieve the goal, just later than “predicted”).
Elon generally is not public about the likelihood of various events in timelines and speaks about his timelines as being optimistic guesses.