How much is Elon Musk's time really worth?

There is a ridiculous piece of data: he can read 60 books in a month. Converted, if an average person reads one book a month, this guy's reading speed is 60 times yours.

But what's crazier is his “time slicing method”—dividing a full day of 24 hours into 288 time fragments, minimizing the allocation for each task, and always being under deadline pressure. NASA's rocket experts have said that attending meetings with him is the most exhausting because he will keep asking questions until he masters 90% of your knowledge.

Interdisciplinary + First Principles are his core weapons. When developing Tesla, he saw through the essence of expensive batteries—it's just a pile of raw materials, so he directly sourced the materials from the London Metal Exchange to assemble them himself, instantly collapsing the costs.

Mixing physics, engineering, and philosophy at will, and then reconstructing from fundamental logic—this methodology in his hands repeatedly subverts industry perceptions.

“I reinvented the electric car and I want to send humans to Mars. If I were an easy-going ordinary person, do you think it's possible?” he said.

This guy is either a genius or a time management monster.