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    Think Like Elon Musk: Part 1
    Think Like Elon Musk: Part 1
    Think Like Elon Musk: Part 1
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    Think Like Elon Musk: Part 1

    By Denys Nazarenko

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    What do Steve Jobs and the Wright brothers have in common? How did they manage to change the course of history? Obviously their thinking was different from ours. It’s the kind of thinking that makes it possible to do things no one else believes in, to achieve your goals, to make it. But it’s not just about perseverance. People like Albert Einstein or Nikola Tesla had a different worldview than we do.

    This book is dedicated to outstanding scientists and inventors, brilliant engineers and developers, and all those people who make a change and give a sense of hope to humanity. We will try to find out what their way of thinking is and what makes them so efficient in problem-solving. Our contemporary Elon Musk is an example of such a sharp person. His actions are the best illustrations of the ideas in this book. Unlike us, he has managed to figure it out on a subconscious level, how it works, how to become superefficient. This book will tell you how to touch upon this wonder and start doing the same.

    The first part of the book is an invitation to look at some basic principles that are absolutely essential to creating something new. If you apply these principles, you will manage to succeed at whatever your goal is —whether you want to be a famous science communicator like Neil deGrasse Tyson, travel the world, or become an inventor.

    By the end of the book we will also address education: what we should learn and how we should learn it to spend our time productively. You will get to know what it is that makes Carl Sagan so special and how he became a star of educational programs.

    And all of this is just the first half of an informative book that is being created.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDenys Nazarenko
    Release dateNov 3, 2019
    ISBN9780463491713
    Think Like Elon Musk: Part 1
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    Denys Nazarenko

    Denys Nazarenko graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (notable alumni of the institute include Serhii Koroliov, who launched the first human being into space, and Igor Sikorsky, the inventor of the helicopter). During his student years, Denys was already forming startups and created the first Ukrainian smart home management system. After graduating, Denys founded his own software development company. However, his main goal was not to make money, but to have free time to travel. Together with his future wife, Denys has traveled the world extensively, trying to understand the way people of different countries think. He is also interested in a wide range of topics--including ancient Indian philosophies and cutting-edge technical innovations. When Russia started the war against Ukraine, Denys came home, became a volunteer, and with his own private funds started helping Ukraine fight for its independence. Although he was very busy with social initiatives, he could feel that his desire to create was still there. That gave a start to another company, making 3-D scanners for jewelers. Denys has a wide worldview and the desire to help everyone find their calling.

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      Think Like Elon Musk - Denys Nazarenko

      0000 Introduction

      This book is not about how to become a billionaire; although, it will also provide some insights into that. It’s about how to make your dreams come true. Whether you want to take a trip around the world, become an outstanding scientist, or be the first person ever to step on Mars, it’s your thinking that will determine how far you go. If we take into account the way our mind operates, we can learn to think more effectively. In the end, our thinking determines how effective we are in making the most out of a situation. It’s our thinking that determines if we manage to achieve our goal at all.

      Whether our task is designing a most accurate 3-D scanner, flying to Mars, or dealing with a common life difficulty, it is possible to resolve it in the most productive way. Effective problem solving is enjoyable and feels like play, while ineffective problem solving resembles endless suffering or going round in circles, and the outcome is uncertain.

      This book is dedicated to outstanding scientists and inventors, brilliant engineers and developers, and all those people who make a change and give a sense of hope to humanity. We will try to find out what their way of thinking is and what makes them so efficient in problem-solving. Our contemporary Elon Musk is an example of such a sharp person. His actions are the best illustrations of the ideas in this book. Unlike us, he has managed to figure it out on a subconscious level, how it works, how to become superefficient. This book will tell you how to touch upon this wonder and start doing the same.

      Now, try to solve this problem from a Math Olympiad contest: There are twelve coins, and one of them is counterfeit. Your task is to isolate the false coin by using a balance scale only three times. And here is the tricky part: you don’t know if the counterfeit coin is lighter or heavier than the genuine ones. For most people, this specification makes the puzzle too complicated. But you will be able to solve it, as well as lots of other problems that require exceptional thinking and skills, if you use the information given in this book. Because you’re going to learn some tricks.

      Obviously, I cannot guarantee that after you read this book you will immediately start thinking like Elon Musk — actually, we still don’t know if he is even human :) You’re going to use your common sense and sense of humor, so get ready, they will come in handy anyway. I want to share with you ideas, rather than specific data. This book is more an entertainment than an attempt to educate. Authors usually make references to boring scientific texts just to support their point, but my task is to provide you with information that will add to the material of the book. So, you will find here links to Wikipedia, YouTube videos, and other sources that are easy to find and don’t require going through the jungles of dusty pages of highbrow books. Each hyperlink also has a QR code so that you can open it on your smartphone without having to type in the website.

      This book also aims to resolve a more complicated task: When Elon Musk launched his Roadster into space, [1] some people asked me why would he do that. I have an answer to that, but it’s quite hard to explain. Was it a smart marketing move? Was it dumping a body dressed as a dummy astronaut? We will try to unravel this puzzle too.

      The book consists of several parts, each taking you deeper into the questions related to the way our mind operates — from how to plan your thinking process to how often you should air your room. To show how much you can gain in efficiency if you follow this advice, I provide an example from the life of Elon Musk for each bit of information. Many people use these methods, but what Elon is doing is important for all of us. I want to support him, and my way of doing it is to demonstrate how hard it is to be Elon Musk. To understand him better, we need to start thinking like he does.

      0001. Limitations of Mind

      Imagine you are in charge of a company; you have one hundred recruits. Your task is to distribute the responsibilities among them. This distribution will affect the outcome of the war and whether your people will survive it. During World War I, the U.S. army used so-called IQ tests to solve this task effectively. The army adopted IQ tests from schools, where simple questions were used to determine if a child had reached sufficient development stage to go to school.

      By now, IQ tests have changed significantly. They have been the subject of much research, and today we can say that IQ, an intelligence quotient, represents just a part of our abilities. Our social skills, like being able to understand other people and their perspectives, are equally important. Thus, a high IQ is not a sure sign of success, and a low one does not necessarily imply being a loser.

      One thing that the IQ test tells us for sure is how quick we are at resolving tasks of various levels of difficulty. Of course, the task is not about ordering a hamburger—even professors would find themselves lost trying to

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