Musk: A person's greatest ability is to read, have it, sooner or later will become a winner in life!
Musk once said, "As long as you can read a lot of books and talk to people, you can learn almost anything."
This article mainly introduces Musk's 4 "ways of reading" and draws lessons from them to improve reading efficiency.
01. Read widely
Musk is an avid reader who reads a staggering amount, often spending up to ten hours engrossed in a book.
As a child, he read entire shelves of books, from 《The Lord of the Rings》to the 《Encyclopaedia Britannica》, and enjoyed reading both fiction and non-fiction.
But later, the school library was no longer sufficient for his needs, and he often asked the librarian, "Why not buy new books?"
These extensive reading not only exercised his diversified thinking methods, but also laid a good foundation for his later career.
02. Independent learning
Musk is highly self-educated, and if you give him books and learning resources, he can quickly absorb the content without tutoring.
While most students passively receive knowledge in school, Musk is motivated by his thirst for knowledge.
When Musk got his first computer as a teenager, he worked on it enthusiastically.
After just three days of non-stop sleep, Musk completed the entire BASIC programming language course that came with the computer, which should have taken several months to complete.
Musk soon became fascinated with computers, finding his logical home in their language, circuitry, and output.
In 1984, at the age of 13, Musk developed a science fiction game called Blastar with just 169 lines of code and sold it to a South African magazine for $500.
Before the founding of Tesla and SpaceX, he has been reading books, surfing the Internet and other ways to carry out deep learning of these two industries, so that he can quickly master the required technology, but also to stimulate him to continue to exceed his potential.
03. Interdisciplinary
Musk has been able to make breakthroughs in so many areas because of his extensive interdisciplinary knowledge.
He is well aware that many innovative things are the product of interdisciplinary research.
Therefore, he was never confined to one learning, but covered a wide range of knowledge.
In college, Musk also studied economics and physics. In 1995, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in economics and another degree in physics.
This cross-disciplinary knowledge structure enables him to break through the conventional thinking frame, thus producing a creative way of thinking.
04. Portable learning
Musk has not only made outstanding achievements in automotive, energy, technology and other aspects, but also involved in the development of space.
What makes him so good at everything?
The reason is that it has a strong portability.
The so-called transplantation learning is actually the application of what you have learned to another thing.
Example 1, Musk has applied the basic principles of physics, such as action and reaction forces, to SpaceX's rocket development.
Example 2, the concept of Hyperloop hyperloop is another embodiment of Musk's transplantation of engineering principles.
Drawing on engineering concepts such as rail transit and magnetic levitation technology, he proposed a new mode of high-speed transportation, which greatly improves transportation efficiency by running maglev trains in vacuum tubes and is expected to change the transportation pattern in the future.
Maybe we can't dabble in all fields like Musk, but we can learn something from him, that is, constantly explore and constantly transcend the thinking of ourselves.