Full podcast episode: th-cam.com/video/aGOV5R7M1Js/w-d-xo.html Lex Fridman podcast channel: th-cam.com/users/lexfridman Guest bio: Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others.
I remember while in the car traveling towards the starbase location, the everyday astronaut was asking Elon questions about the oil rig. And he simply said "we're not considering that currently".. or something to that effect. But Tim still wanted to talk about the potential future of it, and Elon completely and coldly dismissed it again with no thought to the flow of the conversation at all. Elon seems to have a strong ability to completely filter out, what he considers to be, irrelevant thoughts/ideas. Like tunnel vision. It really stuck out to me, because most people, I think, would freely converse about future plans like starship being launched off an oil rig, but he had obviously completely sealed off that train of thought in his mind, and clearly didn't want it to be reawakened.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:02 🕰️ Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs had remarkable time management skills, but Elon Musk's approach is unique. 00:30 🧠 Elon Musk's ability to switch his focus rapidly between various projects and tasks is exceptional. 02:14 🔄 Musk is a serial tasker who intensely focuses on one thing at a time, allowing him to avoid distractions. 03:49 🚀 Musk's sense of urgency and extreme focus drive his productivity and goals, especially in endeavors like space exploration. 05:49 💡 Even in mundane tasks, Musk's intense focus and ability to switch tasks provide valuable lessons for productivity. 06:32 🖼️ Different people have different approaches to productivity; some thrive on intense focus, while others excel at seeing patterns across various domains. 07:26 🌟 Musk's intense work ethic comes at the cost of not always being able to savor success and quiet moments. Made with HARPA AI
I need to learn from this. I've noticed that, when there's several issues in my life requiring my attention, they paralyse me. All the issues are screaming at me at the same time, in my head, and i can't focus on any one of them. I think i need to work on time management/time boxing, to allow me some period of times to only think about ONE thing.
I am by no means anywhere close to Elon (obviously), but the concept of blocking out time and focusing on one thing at a time is a common strategy. A fairly short, very practical book I read changed my life in this regard. The techniques help clear your brain clutter so that you can focus on tasks. When blocking out time, if an employee with lots on your plate, speak to your manager to discuss even just one hour each day to focus on your tasks uninterrupted. If an employer or manager, tell your team that you need your focus time. Super effective. The book is Smart Work by Dermot Crowley
I have the same fear and delegence and I always feel I didn’t achieve much in my life and I always need more and always curious. The great thing about Musk is that he is so brave to enter fields that nobody before him had ever done. That’s Musk uniqness.
Sure, his time management is exquisite. But his direct reports must be amazing too, because if they don't present him options for on-going issues he can't just quickly decide and move on.
Agree. And his team for sure invented or came up with something but can't take credit because they are working for his company. It's teamwork at the end of the day.
I think a big piece of success is one’s ability to find the right team though. We always focus on the production and intelligence side, but there is a huge social aspect and ability to vet people here too.
The difference between Elon and other CEOs / Business people is - Elon is working on solving the real engineering problem. Others are focused just on revenue and profit. Elon is passionate about his work. Others are interested only in money. Elon is a decent and humble man. Others might not have these qualities when they move higher up Elon is a self-taught person and he learns/schooling everything at home. Others are products of slave mentality schooling. Elon does not spend money on advertising because his products are excellent. Others sell ordinary products/services through marketing. Elon is working on future products and services. Others are just trying to survive the current market situation and share market manipulation
Fierce urgency isn't for everyone. I'd rather enjoy a large part of my life than just be in 'fierce urgency' mode all the time. Do I get a lot done? Sure. Do I 'experience' a lot? Not so sure...
Plus they act like he does all this he doesn’t do anything it’s all high level touch and go. Having unlimited money and unlimited workforce tends to help.
There are two types of shared attention in the WAIS-IV intelligence test given by neuropsychologists. First is trying to focus on one specific beep trough a large variety of other noises and count them. Second is to focus on several different beeps and noises. Being intensely focused is the former, being multitasking is the latter. Also, when your mind is very reactive to any subtle changes in the context, sometimes it goes too quick, and you do not remember much from your working memory, while still being able to have a fully able and strong long term memory.
Psychologist here, who's tested extensively with both WAIS-IV og WISC-V. WAIS-IV doesn't measure any type of "shared attention" - that's not a term that is used today. It sounds to me like you're trying to describe processing speed in the first part ("one specific beep through a large variety of other noises"), which is one of the four facets of WAIS-IV. Processing speed refers to the speed of one's ability to discriminate (simple) signal stimuli from noise. The other part you're describing "multi-tasking - to focus on several different beeps and noises" (although the term is not used today, as it's not accurate), seems to describe the facet called working memory. It's basically how much stimuli of importance can you sustain, manipulate and vocalize at the same time.
Excellent counterpoint. See also Marc Andreessen on Jobs/perfection versus Gates/iterate-&-improve. From the Greeks, who first saw the duality; Apollonian versus Dionysian.
This is insightfully good stuff! Multitasking is not the mistake, it’s just divided 100 percent of focus and spending at least some of that energy and focus on multitasking itself. Very good when alone, but teamwork makes the dream work! Imagine dedicating all your focus on a task WITH another person! That’s way less energy cost and way more focused focus than two people multitasking together.
@@solome6478 we all sufficient and veritable by ourselves, we are only ever not incompetent around others if we can be humble enough to work together effectively, even if it takes longer. Competence and understanding and kindness are better results, period. What be you think?
*When you have more than one motivating entrepreneurship and shift from one to another is exactly the effect of taking a rest. That's it. The clue is to be focused, organised and people that does not being you problems when you are in other businesses. It not a miracle.*
As it's said, "There is no such thing as work-life balance, there are only work-life decisions, and they have consequences." (Cit. Jack Welch?) #HavingColossalDreamsAndThenMakingThemRealIsNotForEveryone #PaidPriceToACTION #QLA
@@kaibe5241I think a serial tasker would be a good husband and father. It means when they're being a husband and father that's all they are focusing on, being distracted by work etc. While with family is more likely to make you a bad father imo
There are tremendous similarities with every captain of industry. The biggest of which is that they all had daddy issues which became the cause of their success. When Edsel was building the Trimotor his father was against it and when the company had to be scrapped Henry Ford said of his son that all he really wanted out of Edsel was to take a stand against him. I have begun to realize that there are parents who are argumentative and simply want their child to stand up and challenge them as if it is an indicator of success to them.
Thank you! There’s this constant glorification about Elon this and that, nobody talks about the people that actually put all of his Ideas together. Kudos to Elon of course but they paint him like he does everything.
@@vedantmalhotra6162 Well, when you have the money to play around, I guess anyone can be innovative as long as you have the people to execute it and and the money to pay for that kind of talent. Kudos to Elon but I think we glorify him a bit too much.
There's some truth to your point. He's on a league of his own. But his cult sort of stretches it a bit further. Elon does run great companies, but none of his intellectual accomplishments are close to let's say that of Einstein's breakthrough or Newton's laws. Elon excels at running high tech companies and constantly pushing the status quo. But there have been far greater intellectual accomplishments thats sort of are not considered when showering praise on Elon.
If elon died tomorrow his companies would be fine without him tbh. The work has already been done. Similar to Apple and losing steve jobs. The main talent is in the companies not in Elons head.
Intensity an inability to savor the moment is a thing. I always try to do more, work more, learn more. And I can't remember when I actually felt I had achieved something. Achievements feel good for a day maybe. Even something other people celebrate a lot, I just rushed though. And I felt it a lot when I was in a relationship with a girl - she was very focused and worked a lot, but also loved simply relaxing. And I just couldn't 'relax'. I could pretend. I could enjoy a hour or two by pool, but I felt we are simply wasting time. Never said it to her, but felt like it. We later both went through a very complex separation - it is like two people who have everything good - friends, extreme passion, aims,.. but we just were off in terms what we wanted from life. I so tried to change. I thought a girl like that was what I needed. Someone calm. I'll be the james bond kung fu daddy and she will be the peaceful mom. Long story short sometimes being too eager to get more out of life means sacrifices.
This is the only the second time I’ve listened to Issacson talk about Elon, AND this is the second time I’ve heard Issacson criticize Elon for his tweets.
I disagree. There's plenty of stuff to dislike about Elon, but there's plenty of stuff that you can acknowledge is positive too. I'm not saying he's a good guy, role model, but you don't become the richest man in the world without having some stuff figured out. I think he's becoming a bit of a nutcase, but there's no denying he's a smart guy when you look at objective facts (but not Twitter, seems like a constant dumpster fire lol).
I found Walter's take is... poor. I mean... Who cares about how many tasks a boss can choose to do? The goals, the limitations, the fundamentals, the patterns... stop showing off how many examples he can count, just break things down! I gonna skip his entire interview.
It’s a bit sad. Not being able to savour the moment. Lying on a beach. Eating at a great restaurant (he can afford the best of the best). But that’s who he is.
Don't take that no self stuff too far. Psychologists make use of a concept of a constricted self and it's part of established psychology. See Baumeister's book on the self.
@trentw.3566 I'm sure I would love reading it but you kinda can't take that no self stuff too far as the moment you truly understand it you are enlightened and then either you disappear into the emptiness of quiet meditation or you come back with something to redevelop a form of self that is better and share with others what you have learned.
I beg to differ, sir. Looking at his facial expression, his lightness, almost sweet, childness, even when he talks about very sophisticated, mind boggling technical.aspects, like there is a piece of cake, while you can see and hear his voice that shows he does savor what is doing to the most.When I watch him talking I tend to get much closer to his face, almost like wanting to see how his mind works and also having the drive to embrace his SOUL❤
ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING, i love that he mentioned davinci!!!! Theres more than 1 way to be great and people of opposite natures can be successful, that was "artistically" eye opening and motivating, even though he basically said "Elons just build different" lol. What a fantastic guy, this elon, he sure will not become one of the most controversial people ever.
DaVinci was an artist and polymath genius of the highest order. He did The Last Supper and Mona Lisa, among many other works of art. Musk is an industrialist (like his father) who designs abominations like the Cybertruck which could've been mistaken for something from a 5-year old's imagination. If either had interviewed for Steve Jobs, he would have hired DaVinci, because Jobs didn't just want engineers. He wanted creative types. I happen to like Musk (I'm sure he'd be happy to know that) but he is being more than a little disingenuous when he says things like "people can't effectively work from home" (to paraphrase) (probably because he'd prefer to keep car demand high to personally benefit his company).
Other ultra-successful people developed the habit of not dwelling on successes. Read somewhere how Jennifer Lopez doesn’t allow herself to reminisce because she would be overwhelmed by the what she was able to accomplish and stop moving forward. Talent and luck is important but hyper-performers in any field are very intelligent and supremely driven.
@Elonmusk730... Mary. Germany.I am such an enthusiastic fan of yours, Mr Musk, that I am following your "shorts" and podcasts and having the propensity to express how.much mesmerized I am by you and your fantastic, unsurpassed endeavors as well your subdued style of presenting them, like they were 😂 a piece of cake, despite the unmatched technology you master to the dismay of everyone who wants to know.😊
0:02: ⏰ Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk are all known for their exceptional time management skills. 3:05: 🕒 Elon Musk is a serial tasker who intensely focuses on one task at a time for about an hour before moving on to the next task. 5:25: 🚀 Elon Musk emphasizes the importance of a fierce sense of urgency in achieving goals, even in mundane tasks. Recap by Tammy AI
Ah and by the way! To be here on earth linking is the most important thing. If you are productive or not is not the essential thing. That is what our ego is for. Every junky and every homeless that lives on the street is a valuable for „life“ like all the „shooting stars“ out there. EM was born wealthy and knew exactly how to manipulate people. That is its biggest achievement. Not his productivity.
I think both here missed the mark, Elon isnt doing many tasks, or serial tasks. Hes focusing on two things only: design and decisions. Design is building something cool, making it go smoothly, and directing it in the right direction. For elon, he's designing the future of humanity. One task. The vehicles he uses to design, are 6 companies, which are run by very competent teams, and their direction is led by...you guessed it... the design. I think Elon sees everything through that 1 lense. This should allow him to think about solving a valve issue, as well as the direction of twitter, because they fall under the same role: design.
I like this Elon thinks in very large scales so it make sense that if the goal is designing the future of humanity all his different companies and just sub systems in the overall system he is designing. It looks as multi-tasking to the rest of us but in Elon head it is just one large system that needs work in different areas.
This is the only interview of the author which say’s positive things about Elon, but then he ruins it at the end by interpreting Elons behavior as a fault. What qualifies him to judge! He is making money big time off Elons fame.
You'd think this would be the podcast that would interview the people at Tesla doing the actual work, the engineers, or the scientists in universities publishing research that leads to new batteries. Who cares about head bureaucrat creaming it?
Full podcast episode: th-cam.com/video/aGOV5R7M1Js/w-d-xo.html
Lex Fridman podcast channel: th-cam.com/users/lexfridman
Guest bio: Walter Isaacson is an author of biographies on Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, and many others.
This clip has inspired me to stop procrastinating and be more productive. Can't wait to start tomorrow.
You can start now. 👁️🤙🏼
🤣🤣🤣
Wait, don't you have that thing tomorrow? 🤔
Better start the day after.
Ha ha ha ha 😂😂😂
lol
3:20 Single task sequentially with a HARDCORE focus
4:55 Fierce urgency
6:20 Leonardo de Vinci
7:20 Savor the moment
I remember while in the car traveling towards the starbase location, the everyday astronaut was asking Elon questions about the oil rig. And he simply said "we're not considering that currently".. or something to that effect. But Tim still wanted to talk about the potential future of it, and Elon completely and coldly dismissed it again with no thought to the flow of the conversation at all. Elon seems to have a strong ability to completely filter out, what he considers to be, irrelevant thoughts/ideas. Like tunnel vision. It really stuck out to me, because most people, I think, would freely converse about future plans like starship being launched off an oil rig, but he had obviously completely sealed off that train of thought in his mind, and clearly didn't want it to be reawakened.
Do u have the link?
@@sonkaos999just search everyday astronaut and Elon musk and you'll get all the videos
@@sonkaos999 "Starbase Launchpad Tour with Elon Musk [PART 3 // Summer 2021]"
around the 2:30 mark they start to talk about it
Sure Narassistic focus is real as .
It's because *Felon Musk* didn't know diddly about the oil rig.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:02 🕰️ Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs had remarkable time management skills, but Elon Musk's approach is unique.
00:30 🧠 Elon Musk's ability to switch his focus rapidly between various projects and tasks is exceptional.
02:14 🔄 Musk is a serial tasker who intensely focuses on one thing at a time, allowing him to avoid distractions.
03:49 🚀 Musk's sense of urgency and extreme focus drive his productivity and goals, especially in endeavors like space exploration.
05:49 💡 Even in mundane tasks, Musk's intense focus and ability to switch tasks provide valuable lessons for productivity.
06:32 🖼️ Different people have different approaches to productivity; some thrive on intense focus, while others excel at seeing patterns across various domains.
07:26 🌟 Musk's intense work ethic comes at the cost of not always being able to savor success and quiet moments.
Made with HARPA AI
He doesn’t get distracted by the frivolous and unimportant things, like his 11 children.
Sigma male 😎
What a stupid comment
God-- what a fuckin bad comment
@@potatodog7910narcissist male. Labels are easy, parenting is not.
@@Joseph-fc3pv expand your vocabulary. Stop using "narcissist" as a placeholder word. Very narcissistic of you ☺
I need to learn from this. I've noticed that, when there's several issues in my life requiring my attention, they paralyse me. All the issues are screaming at me at the same time, in my head, and i can't focus on any one of them. I think i need to work on time management/time boxing, to allow me some period of times to only think about ONE thing.
Tell me how when you find out
Yup!
Me too
I am by no means anywhere close to Elon (obviously), but the concept of blocking out time and focusing on one thing at a time is a common strategy. A fairly short, very practical book I read changed my life in this regard. The techniques help clear your brain clutter so that you can focus on tasks.
When blocking out time, if an employee with lots on your plate, speak to your manager to discuss even just one hour each day to focus on your tasks uninterrupted. If an employer or manager, tell your team that you need your focus time. Super effective.
The book is Smart Work by Dermot Crowley
Moral of the story: With intense focus you can achieve great things.
Me: What’s this Polytopia game?
😂
When you find your "purpose," every energy within you is skyrocketing.
agreed
He does have real efficiency in maintaining at least 5 debates on X at the same time.
And he's multitasking 5 different drugs for each of those debates.
@@Apjoozhe is on spectrum
I have the same fear and delegence and I always feel I didn’t achieve much in my life and I always need more and always curious. The great thing about Musk is that he is so brave to enter fields that nobody before him had ever done. That’s Musk uniqness.
As soon as you learn to write in English, you’ll be unstoppable.
Sure, his time management is exquisite. But his direct reports must be amazing too, because if they don't present him options for on-going issues he can't just quickly decide and move on.
yeah i heard him say in an interview people give him too much credit and don't give his teams enough credit.
@@particle_wave7614 I think his biggest strength is picking the right people for the job.
Agree. And his team for sure invented or came up with something but can't take credit because they are working for his company. It's teamwork at the end of the day.
I think a big piece of success is one’s ability to find the right team though. We always focus on the production and intelligence side, but there is a huge social aspect and ability to vet people here too.
@@user-hp6ls8qy6d Hire quick, fire quicker. Something Gary Vee is often mentioning as important for running a healthy company.
The difference between Elon and other CEOs / Business people is -
Elon is working on solving the real engineering problem. Others are focused just on revenue and profit.
Elon is passionate about his work. Others are interested only in money.
Elon is a decent and humble man. Others might not have these qualities when they move higher up
Elon is a self-taught person and he learns/schooling everything at home. Others are products of slave mentality schooling.
Elon does not spend money on advertising because his products are excellent. Others sell ordinary products/services through marketing.
Elon is working on future products and services. Others are just trying to survive the current market situation and share market manipulation
Important for me to consider this personally. I should Work according to my real identity
Great comments... thx
cringe comment… thx
Good observation
Passion is a crazy difference maker. It gives one a significant advantage.
Fierce urgency isn't for everyone. I'd rather enjoy a large part of my life than just be in 'fierce urgency' mode all the time. Do I get a lot done? Sure. Do I 'experience' a lot? Not so sure...
Thanks for saying this i feel the same
Plus they act like he does all this he doesn’t do anything it’s all high level touch and go. Having unlimited money and unlimited workforce tends to help.
@user-zz5je1ry1o and an even bigger loser calling the first guy a loser ha
@@dmcentYT I think his management style doesn't follow Harvard's formula
Fierce urgency sounds like bad planning.
There are two types of shared attention in the WAIS-IV intelligence test given by neuropsychologists. First is trying to focus on one specific beep trough a large variety of other noises and count them. Second is to focus on several different beeps and noises. Being intensely focused is the former, being multitasking is the latter. Also, when your mind is very reactive to any subtle changes in the context, sometimes it goes too quick, and you do not remember much from your working memory, while still being able to have a fully able and strong long term memory.
Multitasking is not real and their has been studies. Your brain simply can’t multitask multiple different things at once.
Psychologist here, who's tested extensively with both WAIS-IV og WISC-V. WAIS-IV doesn't measure any type of "shared attention" - that's not a term that is used today.
It sounds to me like you're trying to describe processing speed in the first part ("one specific beep through a large variety of other noises"), which is one of the four facets of WAIS-IV. Processing speed refers to the speed of one's ability to discriminate (simple) signal stimuli from noise.
The other part you're describing "multi-tasking - to focus on several different beeps and noises" (although the term is not used today, as it's not accurate), seems to describe the facet called working memory. It's basically how much stimuli of importance can you sustain, manipulate and vocalize at the same time.
Excellent counterpoint.
See also Marc Andreessen on Jobs/perfection versus Gates/iterate-&-improve.
From the Greeks, who first saw the duality; Apollonian versus Dionysian.
This is insightfully good stuff! Multitasking is not the mistake, it’s just divided 100 percent of focus and spending at least some of that energy and focus on multitasking itself. Very good when alone, but teamwork makes the dream work! Imagine dedicating all your focus on a task WITH another person! That’s way less energy cost and way more focused focus than two people multitasking together.
This is part of the benefits of pair programming.
That only works better if one is not competent enough
@@solome6478 we all sufficient and veritable by ourselves, we are only ever not incompetent around others if we can be humble enough to work together effectively, even if it takes longer. Competence and understanding and kindness are better results, period. What be you think?
Can’t wait for his new book to come out. Benjamin Franklin is one of my favorite books of all time.
He has Aspberger’s, which explains a lot of his ability to focus entirely on things and compartmentalize.
😂his engineers are making him look good
@ravd8082 great teams don't build themselves. If you think management is the easy part you have been misled.
I SO envy his focus. I can’t focus on anything for more than 5 minutes.
He has intense greed and aggression, a huge IQ, and a big imagination.
@@tioswift3676find something you love and delete insta
Musky Tasking:
Serial-tasker 3:25 Sequential-tasker 2:15 Process-Release 2:59
*When you have more than one motivating entrepreneurship and shift from one to another is exactly the effect of taking a rest. That's it. The clue is to be focused, organised and people that does not being you problems when you are in other businesses. It not a miracle.*
Elon is amazing but I like to watch my kid drawing on the sidewalk for 30 minutes
As it's said, "There is no such thing as work-life balance, there are only work-life decisions, and they have consequences." (Cit. Jack Welch?) #HavingColossalDreamsAndThenMakingThemRealIsNotForEveryone #PaidPriceToACTION #QLA
Another amazing clip from this interview. Great job, Lex!
Took me 45 minutes to pick a TH-cam vid to watch. Glad I chose this one. Onwards and upwards!
Serial tasker huh, i wonder if there's a way to switch to this kind of mode of operation
Yes but you must want that more than sleep.
It’s easy. Don’t do anything but work. Marry a woman that doesn’t want a husband, and have kids that will never have a father.
@@kaibe5241I think a serial tasker would be a good husband and father. It means when they're being a husband and father that's all they are focusing on, being distracted by work etc. While with family is more likely to make you a bad father imo
Forget time management, I'd like to hear more about how people like Musk prioritizes tasks.
There are tremendous similarities with every captain of industry. The biggest of which is that they all had daddy issues which became the cause of their success. When Edsel was building the Trimotor his father was against it and when the company had to be scrapped Henry Ford said of his son that all he really wanted out of Edsel was to take a stand against him. I have begun to realize that there are parents who are argumentative and simply want their child to stand up and challenge them as if it is an indicator of success to them.
whatever makes you feel better about being a failure bud
@@Wartooth6 zero productive value from making comments like this
There's a lot to be said for Elon musk's way also multitasking is useful but only when it doesn't interfere with the other thing you're working on.
It comes at the expense of his 10 children lol
It’s come at the expense of hiring best engineers and Elon then takes credit for it
@@ravd8082 also his kids
Fierce Urgency is important! Urgency can help you focus ...
I feel like I was in school class listening in the room 😂
The flip side of hardcore intensity is not being able to savor a moment... that sounds so tragic. I see why Elon says, " you wouldn't want to be me."
Yes Elon is smart but more importantly he knows how to attract top talent. When management does this, they seem to have more time and less issues.
Thank you! There’s this constant glorification about Elon this and that, nobody talks about the people that actually put all of his Ideas together. Kudos to Elon of course but they paint him like he does everything.
that again is just a proof of how amazing his own abilities are. the people working for him won't be if he wouldn't have made the decisions he did
@@vedantmalhotra6162 Well, when you have the money to play around, I guess anyone can be innovative as long as you have the people to execute it and and the money to pay for that kind of talent. Kudos to Elon but I think we glorify him a bit too much.
There's some truth to your point. He's on a league of his own. But his cult sort of stretches it a bit further. Elon does run great companies, but none of his intellectual accomplishments are close to let's say that of Einstein's breakthrough or Newton's laws. Elon excels at running high tech companies and constantly pushing the status quo. But there have been far greater intellectual accomplishments thats sort of are not considered when showering praise on Elon.
If elon died tomorrow his companies would be fine without him tbh. The work has already been done. Similar to Apple and losing steve jobs. The main talent is in the companies not in Elons head.
Intensity an inability to savor the moment is a thing. I always try to do more, work more, learn more. And I can't remember when I actually felt I had achieved something. Achievements feel good for a day maybe. Even something other people celebrate a lot, I just rushed though.
And I felt it a lot when I was in a relationship with a girl - she was very focused and worked a lot, but also loved simply relaxing. And I just couldn't 'relax'. I could pretend. I could enjoy a hour or two by pool, but I felt we are simply wasting time. Never said it to her, but felt like it.
We later both went through a very complex separation - it is like two people who have everything good - friends, extreme passion, aims,.. but we just were off in terms what we wanted from life.
I so tried to change. I thought a girl like that was what I needed. Someone calm. I'll be the james bond kung fu daddy and she will be the peaceful mom.
Long story short sometimes being too eager to get more out of life means sacrifices.
This is the only the second time I’ve listened to Issacson talk about Elon, AND this is the second time I’ve heard Issacson criticize Elon for his tweets.
his tweets are stupid that's why he criticizes them
I’m reading Isaacson’s bio on Musk and I have to say it’s impacting my opinion. I think Musk was right when he said you wouldn’t want to be him.
This was a great video. Thanks.
1. Lex (kind of) licks anything Elon says
2. Walter wants to sell a book about Elon
no conflict of interest whatsoever
Haha yes finally someone points it out! I'm going crazy here
I disagree. There's plenty of stuff to dislike about Elon, but there's plenty of stuff that you can acknowledge is positive too. I'm not saying he's a good guy, role model, but you don't become the richest man in the world without having some stuff figured out. I think he's becoming a bit of a nutcase, but there's no denying he's a smart guy when you look at objective facts (but not Twitter, seems like a constant dumpster fire lol).
@@PeterBlancoSocial you become the richest man in the world by your father owning an emerald mine you absolute goof ball
I found Walter's take is... poor. I mean... Who cares about how many tasks a boss can choose to do? The goals, the limitations, the fundamentals, the patterns... stop showing off how many examples he can count, just break things down! I gonna skip his entire interview.
It's as if not everyone shares the same opinion about everyone else.
Really unique mindset. As Lex Friedman asked. How can others draw from this talent?
'Context switching is the real mind killer' - Elon Musk
“On a given day he will focus serially sequentially on many different things” sounds so familiar
“Even the mundane can be full of richness” - The great and powerful Lex Fridman
Wow, you rarely see Lex this animated about a topic.
You should see the animation in his pants
lmao, that is such a wholly unnecessary comment, love it.🤣 @@FluxedState
1:16 2:14 3:58 4:44
It’s a bit sad. Not being able to savour the moment. Lying on a beach. Eating at a great restaurant (he can afford the best of the best). But that’s who he is.
That is how genius work, his Brian run million miles and minutes❤❤❤❤❤
Because Tweeting is not a distraction.
Called loving work because theirs an outcome worth loving. Not work as work like a chore.
We ALL benefit from his inability to savor the moment, as he knows he could use those all for moving forward
Its funny hearing people talk about the ideas they have of the self of others that doesnt even exist
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Don't take that no self stuff too far. Psychologists make use of a concept of a constricted self and it's part of established psychology. See Baumeister's book on the self.
@trentw.3566 I'm sure I would love reading it but you kinda can't take that no self stuff too far as the moment you truly understand it you are enlightened and then either you disappear into the emptiness of quiet meditation or you come back with something to redevelop a form of self that is better and share with others what you have learned.
@@trentw.3566so?
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JUST DO IT. That's it. Just get started and do it.
One thing everyone can agree on is he is a meme lord and the way he trolls is just 🔥🔥
“Musk’s big failing is he can’t savor the moment or success…” Immediately reminds me of another person who can’t savor the moment- Nick Saban
4RA ka interface aur Finch ka participation, dono milke events ko next level pe le gaye hai
Where can I get the salt and pepper shrimp recipe? Oh pray tell ❤
I am a bit late to this video but can this level of extreme focus be achieved naturally or does there need to be some level of unnatural intervention?
The flip side of hardcore intensity. Great quote
I spent more time playing Polytopia in year 11 and 12 than I did studying, that gives me confidence to be like Elon Musk!
At first I don’t believe & assume he’s stupid but he proved wrong 😮.
Now I appreciate his extraordinary ability 🎉.
He can afford to focus sequentially because he’s chosen great teams to run and report back on each of his businesses.
Savoring sounds like a wasteful preference anyway. Not savoring should be counted as a plus.
Mujhe 4RA ke events pehle bhi pasand the, ab Finch ke saath aur bhi maza aayega
Imagine getting to your first long vacation and elon just calls you in for sense of urgency. What a nice fella! 😊
Getting payed millions a year, yes then you come in at urgency. No matter if you are on vacation.
I beg to differ, sir. Looking at his facial expression, his lightness, almost sweet, childness, even when he talks about very sophisticated, mind boggling technical.aspects, like there is a piece of cake, while you can see and hear his voice that shows he does savor what is doing to the most.When I watch him talking I tend to get much closer to his face, almost like wanting to see how his mind works and also having the drive to embrace his SOUL❤
Elon himself says that he doesn't really have time to appreciate the moment and he doesn't particularly enjoy being himself with his brain.
haha, even Lex got fired up by the intenstity that drives Elon. First time I see Lex this way, but made me happy!
ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING, i love that he mentioned davinci!!!! Theres more than 1 way to be great and people of opposite natures can be successful, that was "artistically" eye opening and motivating, even though he basically said "Elons just build different" lol. What a fantastic guy, this elon, he sure will not become one of the most controversial people ever.
DaVinci was an artist and polymath genius of the highest order. He did The Last Supper and Mona Lisa, among many other works of art. Musk is an industrialist (like his father) who designs abominations like the Cybertruck which could've been mistaken for something from a 5-year old's imagination. If either had interviewed for Steve Jobs, he would have hired DaVinci, because Jobs didn't just want engineers. He wanted creative types. I happen to like Musk (I'm sure he'd be happy to know that) but he is being more than a little disingenuous when he says things like "people can't effectively work from home" (to paraphrase) (probably because he'd prefer to keep car demand high to personally benefit his company).
Additionally besides the many other things, there is also the training for the cage fight.
Elon is gonna get killed. Zuckerberg has the advantages.
Lex: incredible, what a great guy, so many life lessons
Isaacson: its not that great
Dude is just awesome.
4rabet ke events hamesha se amazing the, Finch ke saath ab aur bhi awesome ho gaye hai
He can´t savor the moment because he´s pedal to the metal at all times. A truly rare individual.
Other ultra-successful people developed the habit of not dwelling on successes. Read somewhere how Jennifer Lopez doesn’t allow herself to reminisce because she would be overwhelmed by the what she was able to accomplish and stop moving forward. Talent and luck is important but hyper-performers in any field are very intelligent and supremely driven.
Mr.Musk is unsurpassed!! ONE OF A.KIND!!! Difficult to find superlatives to do him right!!!❤
@Elonmusk730... Mary. Germany.I am such an enthusiastic fan of yours, Mr Musk, that I am following your "shorts" and podcasts and having the propensity to express how.much mesmerized I am by you and your fantastic, unsurpassed endeavors as well your subdued style of presenting them, like they were 😂 a piece of cake, despite the unmatched technology you master to the dismay of everyone who wants to know.😊
@Elonmusk730... 🥰🥰🥰
Rightfully so😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
So Elon is a human like OS kernel that “multi” processes different tasks, following a priority scheduling algo?
It's ok to delay your enjoyment of results.
Cool talk
He doesn't do things he like to or want to do he do things which is needed to be done.
0:02: ⏰ Ben Franklin, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk are all known for their exceptional time management skills.
3:05: 🕒 Elon Musk is a serial tasker who intensely focuses on one task at a time for about an hour before moving on to the next task.
5:25: 🚀 Elon Musk emphasizes the importance of a fierce sense of urgency in achieving goals, even in mundane tasks.
Recap by Tammy AI
Ah and by the way! To be here on earth linking is the most important thing. If you are productive or not is not the essential thing. That is what our ego is for. Every junky and every homeless that lives on the street is a valuable for „life“ like all the „shooting stars“ out there. EM was born wealthy and knew exactly how to manipulate people. That is its biggest achievement. Not his productivity.
Them: The secret to Elon Musk's productivity
Me: Aspergers
“Thought switching at will”
the years go by fast and the days go by slow
4rabet pe Finch ke saath events aur bhi bright ho gaye hai, real fun
I think both here missed the mark, Elon isnt doing many tasks, or serial tasks. Hes focusing on two things only: design and decisions.
Design is building something cool, making it go smoothly, and directing it in the right direction. For elon, he's designing the future of humanity. One task.
The vehicles he uses to design, are 6 companies, which are run by very competent teams, and their direction is led by...you guessed it... the design. I think Elon sees everything through that 1 lense.
This should allow him to think about solving a valve issue, as well as the direction of twitter, because they fall under the same role: design.
I like this Elon thinks in very large scales so it make sense that if the goal is designing the future of humanity all his different companies and just sub systems in the overall system he is designing. It looks as multi-tasking to the rest of us but in Elon head it is just one large system that needs work in different areas.
He single tasks sequentially with a focus that's hardcore
Know thyself. I like that. Everyone is different, just leverage your strengths optimally. You don’t have to be the next Elon, but the next YOU.
Did I understand correctly that Elon Musk plays Polytopia?? 😂❤
Fierce urgency
Te. Iubesc soarele meu Walter🎉😢😊❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
How is not being able to savor success or the moment a failing dude
Multitasking has been proven to be highly inefficient by professor Paul Kirschner among others.
Yes and as you can hear from the video, Elon doesn’t do it
Exactly.@@mlgpro6194
This is the only interview of the author which say’s positive things about Elon, but then he ruins it at the end by interpreting Elons behavior as a fault. What qualifies him to judge! He is making money big time off Elons fame.
basically he's "secret" is deep work, but we are still trying to find an easier way
Twitter definitely distracts him
The flipside of hardcore intensity is not savor the moment. Well start savoring,.....😂
It’s weed boys.❤
Stumbled upon this just now! Lol
Jo Lex bring Charlie Munger dude!
You'd think this would be the podcast that would interview the people at Tesla doing the actual work, the engineers, or the scientists in universities publishing research that leads to new batteries. Who cares about head bureaucrat creaming it?
Aw man i thought this guy would’ve know more about all these people
LEX!!!!! Both of you and Walter! Hey. Um. Can you contact me? I'm in Boulder Denver Lafayette areas. On the subject.