The Elon Musk Philosophy About Productivity

Want to increase your Productivity? Learn From Elon Musk.

Aamir Kamal πŸš€
3 min readJan 26, 2020
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Elon Musk is running four companies at the same time, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and SolarCity.

Running a single company is very difficult in the first place, while Elon Musk is running four at the same time. Ask any Business founder, what is the most difficult job on the face of the earth? His response will be; Running a company.

Let discuss some of the Phiolophies Elon Musk is using to reaching such astonishing productivity and knowledge.

The First Principle

The term was first introduced by Aristotle more than 2,000 years ago. This theory is used for simplifying things not making them complex. It is used for reaching the core problem and understanding every component of it.

In one of the Interviews, Elon Musk said β€œThe normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy,” Musk said in a 2012 interview with Kevin Rose. β€œWe are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it’s like what other people are doing. With first principles … you boil things down to the most fundamental truths … and then reason up from there.”

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