What Musk has developed that so many of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley lack is a meaningful worldview. He’s

“He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask,” Musk said. “Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask.”

kids were never punished, as Joshua believed they would intuit their way to proper behavior.

That large part of your brain that’s used to handle incoming images gets used for

internal thinking.”

Outside of his studies, Elon would read the newspaper alongside Kimbal, and the two of them would identify interesting people they would like to meet. They then took turns cold-calling these people to ask if they were available to have lunch.

“He would say that everything we did was a function of our burn rate

It’s almost a binary experience for him. Either you’re trying to make something spectacular with no compromises or you’re not.

“I think like we’re just not educating people in this kind of general way. You should have a pretty broad engineering and scientific background. You should have some leadership training and a bit of MBA training or knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money.

The critical thing is to achieve internal transactions. This is vital because they are instant, fraud-free, and fee-free. If you’re a seller and have various