What I learned From Elon Musk's Biography
I’m going on a run by night, a long run, and I listened to his biography. I learned a lot of things. Here are the most meaty ones (so much upcoming sauce): 1. EAT GLASS FOR ASYMMETRICAL REWARDS. He eats glass repeatedly, again and again, without burning out. He goes through the most complex, gnarly, twisted problems, again and again, repeatedly, in multiple companies, and he enjoys that. So, to get the rewards whether material, spiritual, social, you will have to eat the most pain. I was thinking to myself, I need to operationalize eating pain so that whenever I see the struggle phase of getting into the flow, I use it. So, I’ll be working on that soon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second: THE MANIACAL SENSE OR URGENCY He eats glass. He works on the most complex, gnarly, twisted problems, but repeatedly, again and again, as fast as he can. And he forces other people around him to do the same. Facing the hard things that others are not facing, and then facing them repeatedly, faster than ever, faster than everyone. That’s what gives you the asymmetrical rewards and returns. I am perplexed that—how is this guy human? Running multiple companies, maniacal sense of urgency, and sustaining this for multiple decades, not years, decades. Let that sink in. DECADES!!! Takeaway: Make the maniaal sense of urgency your core principle for everything that you do in life. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last: ALL IN ON SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOU. You must be ALL IN in towards something bigger than you. Having a mission, transformative purpose, and the high, high goals, and the crystal-clear goals. A clear hierarchical structure of goals that you achieve so that your mind is always aligned towards achieving the biggest thing that is out there.