Because people have failures and successes and when the successes are bigger than the failure we consider that a success

This is the thread where we’re all agreeing that Elon Musk has a reputation for making stuff up, I think you might mean to be posting in a thread where people are talking about how cool he is or something. You posted that the two things are unrelated so you might be mixing up a conversation that is happening with one that is not happening here

If I wanted to have a completely different conversation, unrelated to his reputation for making stuff up, with a fan about his creations I’d say something like “He created reusable rockets? Wow that Elon guy must have so many patents relating to aerospace and manufacturing” but that would be a totally different thread

Nah. I'm pretty clear about not agreeing.

People have goals they work towards...

Sometimes they have success/failure.

That's different from "making stuff up"