Elon Musk has been called the “most inspiring entrepreneur in the world right now”, and it’s not hard to see why when one considers what he does. Click through for a look at what Elon’s average day is like.

The South African-born, Pretoria-raised Musk used to read whole volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as a 10-year-old boy. Anyone who does that is always going to be special, but maybe not as special as Elon has turned out to be.

For instance he runs two huge, and practically history-altering companies: private space exploration company SpaceX, and electric carmaker Tesla. He’s also chairman of SolarCity, a company that does solar panels for homes.

Business Insider asked him if they could have a look at what his day looks like. He obliged, and on Thursday July 12, his assistant documented a day in the life of Elon Musk for us all to behold. He was at SpaceX, which is based in the Los Angeles area.

Business Insider has more:

Musk splits his time between his two companies. He’s at SpaceX’s LA-based headquarters on Monday and Thursday, then he heads to Tesla (in the Bay Area) on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Friday he splits time between both. Tesla Design has offices in the same office park as SpaceX.

If you’re unfamiliar with Musk, he became wealthy when eBay bought PayPal for $1,5 billion. Unlike other PayPal executives who got rich from that deal, he veered away from web-based companies.

He poured the money he made from the acquisition into his own companies. Four years ago, Tesla was down to its last dollar. Musk put his own cash into Tesla, and almost went broke because of it. He could have very easily thrown in the towel. Instead he bet on the company, and himself. It paid off. Tesla is a public company with $3,21 billion market cap. Its newest car, the Model S is a critical hit.

As for his other company, SpaceX, it just launched a rocket into space.

That’s why we consider him to be the most inspiring entrepreneur going. He’s tackling huge problems, and taking big personal risk to do so.

Here’s a look at how he spends his days managing two world-changing companies:

Elon also had the misfortune of crashing his uninsured McClaren F1 with fellow SpaceX co-founder Peter Thiel recently. Here’s how he dealt with that:

[Source: BusinessInsider]