Deepak Chopra is convinced he’s about to be booted off X (formerly Twitter). He's just called Elon Musk “a troubled narcissist”; an “inflamed”, “stressed” and “needy” man. Yet sometimes, he adds, that sort of neediness “drives the entrepreneurial spirit”. “A lot of good can come from that. I call it the wisdom of insecurity.”
Will Musk see the criticism as positive? Doesn't matter: Chopra is resigned to his fate. His audience on X stands at 3m; and while losing that would be a shame, he also has 3m on Instagram and more than half a million on YouTube. He already lost 6,000 X followers last month when Joe Biden stood down from the re-election race and he thanked the President for his years of service. Truly, the only numbers he cares about are those on his trackers: Chopra uses no fewer than five, including a glucose monitor, to measure his “biomarkers” (“I’d show you what they are, but they’re charging at the minute”). He is not, like Musk, an insecure type. But he is, by his own admission, “neurotic”.
