How Elon Musk learns faster and better than everyone else

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22 points·adamnemecek··7 comments

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So many submissions, so little discussion. There are a few comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12389127

Another single comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14140992

And then these commentless submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14200350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14195624

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14157877

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12433731

They mostly have a few upvotes, but no discussion.

I'll start: Reading two books a day is intense, I don't even think I could read a book that fast and I'm in my 20s. This article makes me feel like reading is really undervalued in my generation

The two books a day measure is a poor one since it doesn't take into account the content or the substance of the book.Books I read now take a week to ingest since they are so dense. The two books the article quotes seem to be from his child hood

I'm not really convinced with this articles takeaway of musk. I mean he spent almost a decade studying physics. Each area he has innovated in has deep roots in physics. I personally believe (I have no evidence of this) that in order to be an "expert-generalist" you need to be a master of one.

Stopped reading at "To explain Musk’s success, others have pointed to his heroic work ethic (he regularly works 85-hour weeks)"

Why? That line has barely anything to do with the rest of the article

Implausibility would be a good reason why.

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