[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Productivity]] - People: [[Walter Isaacson]], [[Elon Musk]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBA4aytp_U&t=103s --- ## Summary - Elon is a serial tasker, not a multitasker. - [[The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time]]. - [[Have extreme focus and fierce urgency]]. - [[Focus is cultivated through the discipline of avoiding distractions]]. - [[Sweat the details, not the distractions.]] - "Musk's big failure is that he can't savour the moment of success. That's the flip side of hardcore intensity." ## Notes ### Musk is different - Every couple of hours, Elon is switching his mindset; from rocket science to AI and robotics. - The day that Musk bought Twitter, he was fixated on a valve issue for SpaceX. - "In a given day, he'll focus serially and sequentially on many different things." ### Serial tasking - [[To excel at many things, you must switch contexts swiftly and immerse yourself completely.]] - [[Focus is cultivated through the discipline of avoiding distractions]]. - Elon is not a multitasker - he's a serial tasker. He focuses intensely on one thing before moving onto the next. - [[The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time]]. - [[To do two things at once is to do neither]]. - "He single tasks sequentially with a focus that's hardcore". ### Extreme focus - There's a lot of time within a day. There's no excuse not to get a lot done. It just requires an extreme focus and fierce urgency. - [[Have extreme focus and fierce urgency]]. - Every few months, there will be a surge; where many people need to come together to do something really quickly. - "We have to have a fierce sense of urgency of we'll never get to Mars." - [[Even the mundane can be full of richness. You just have to take it in intensely.]] - Doing more comes from the ability to endure sustain intensity. - In contrast, Leonardo da Vinci was easily distracted. That's why he has more unfinished paintings than finished paintings. Despite his many unfinished works, the pieces he did complete are among the most celebrated in art history, demonstrating his genius and mastery in multiple fields. - "Musk's big failure is that he can't savour the moment of success. That's the flip side of hardcore intensity." ## See also - [[One-piece flow]]