lunes, 28 de enero de 2019

Elon Musk traits that made him succesful

Elon Musk has been working on a lot of ideas simultaneously, but an enormous amount of actual work is done by people working under him. That amounts to thousands of people in various companies. Elon Musk has several traits including but not limited to:
  1. Working super hard work for a very long time.
  2. Intelligence.
  3. Thinking from first principles.
  4. Accelerated training about everything.
  5. Inspiring great people working under him.
  6. His capability to ‘start’.
  7. He does not conceive failure.
  • Multi tasking is not easy for most people, and he certainly is not a normal person. He has some insane work ethics that almost no one can match. He must be constantly thinking only about work, and great ideas all day long, week after week, year after year since last ~ 15 years or more.
  • Those work ethics inspire others around him to do more. He has constantly claimed to be working between 85–90 and sometimes even 100 hours per week and that is certainly not easy to do at all. This trait while possible for many people is very hard to sustain for a very long time. Most people who work that hard eventually give up after a few months to years. Elon Musk has been sustaining it for some time.
  • Most people who have known him, or have worked with him have called him to be super smart. It all comes from first principles based thinking he applies on just about everything. The whole thinking process goes with a semantic tree where he understands the main parts of the tree first, and then the details narrowed down all the way to branches and leaves.
  • He has been reading a lot of books, and they carry some serious amount of knowledge. An average person reads only a book per month. He reads a book in a day, and he has been reading a lot since he was young. Comparatively, he might have read at least 50–100 times more than an average person and knowledge compounds like anything.
  • Great multi-tasking people become so amazing that by the time they are thinking they are typing their emails, they have made their best decisions, and they can do it at a speed several times higher than most people in the world. I have personally seen people like that who are able to think, write, convince, construct ideas on the fly, and eliminate non-value adding things on the fly way faster than a group of people put together.
  • How do they achieve this? They practice one skill at a time, and take to a new height and become ten times better than others. Then they pick up two skills at a time, and try to get better than others.
    • Take this for an example:
      • If you are a better thinker than 90% of the people.
      • You are a better writer than 90% of the people.
      • You can type faster than 90% of the people.
      • Combined ~ You can think, write, type faster than 99.9 percent of the people if all those were independent sets. (Although they are usually not independent sets, but you get the idea).
    • The point is that more skills you multiply, the more and more unique you are as a person, and he is certainly a far more unique person than many others.
  • Talking to a lot of people will usually give someone a lot of perspectives, ideas and inspiration. Elon is surrounded by a lot of really amazing people from all over the world.
I have written quite a few posts about Elon Musk. Check out some of them which are more specific about several aspects that people have asked on Quora.
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