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“FIND Your Work-Life BALANCE!” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) – #Entspresso


I found I could have drop below a

certain threshold of sleep and although

I’d be awake for hours and I could

sustain it I would get less done try

living the Elon Musk lifestyle for a

week try sleeping six six thousand hours

try to work like he’s working it’s great

to try different clothes on just to see

how they fit important for us to

remember the joy in what we do it’s

important to be effective in our

workplace but it’s important to

cultivate the moments that just bring us

joy rise and shine it’s expresso time

what’s up believe nation it’s Evan my

one word is believe and I believe in you

I believe you have an amazing gift

inside you that I want to see exploded

on to the world so let’s start your day

off right together grab your coffee and

sip on today’s message find balance over

to you Elon Musk your CEO of two

companies you’re chairman of Solar City

talk about time management how on earth

do you do this well you get any sleep

oh yes sometimes not enough so you cook

is really great because because if you

find if I don’t get enough sleep then

I’m I’m quite grumpy I mean obviously I

think most people that way and and and

also I can try to sort of figure out

what’s the right amount of sleep because

I thought I could have dropped below a

certain threshold of sleep and although

I’d be awake for hours and I could

sustain it I would get less done because

mental acuity would be affected so I

found generally the right number for me

is around six to six and a half hours on

average per night that’s not too bad

yeah and any other tips on average that

any other tips on just managing to run

two companies simultaneously I mean do

you do you find I mean I know you’re up

here on Monday Tuesday is it all Tesla

when you’re up in Silicon Valley and all

SpaceX Wednesday Thursday having a

smartphone is incredibly helpful because

that means you can do email during

interstitial periods like you’re in a

car you’re walking in the bathroom

everywhere you can do email

practically when you’re awake and and so

that’s really helpful to have email for

SpaceX and Tesla integrated on my phone

and then it’s just you have to apply a

lot of hours to actual working actually

working so the way I generally do it as

I’ll be working at SpaceX on Monday and

then Monday night fly to the area spent

Tuesday and Wednesday at the Baria then

let a Tesla and then fly back on

Wednesday night spend Thursday and

Friday at SpaceX in in the last several

months then I would fly back here on a

Saturday and either spend Saturday and

Sunday at Tesla or spend Saturday at

Tesla and Sunday at SpaceX and where did

the boys fit in you have five sons yeah

what did we tag along with dad on some

of these bits I do drag them along and a

lot of things actually they’re

remarkably unimpressed by finding

balance is an exercise in self-awareness

and I think it’s one of the most

important exercises you can go through

because yes it’s great to understand how

Elon Musk has his schedule or Will Smith

or whoever it is that you look up to and

it’s great even to try it for a week try

living the Elon Musk lifestyle for a

week try what sleep in six six thousand

hours try to work like he’s working it’s

great to try different clothes on just

to see how they fit what ends up

happening is you judge yourself based up

your definition of balance in your

schedule against somebody else you feel

like because you’re not working like

Elon Musk is you’re not gonna have

success and that’s gonna be the ultimate

failure because if you are constantly

judging your definition of balance basis

of what other people are doing around

you it’s a it’s a guaranteed loss you

need to understand what balance looks

like for you how much time you’re gonna

spend on your business how much time

you’re gonna spend sleeping how much

time you gonna spend with your wife with

your kids with your husband with your

family all of those things for each

individual it looks a little different

my favorite story on this is still

Dwayne Johnson where he wakes up four or

five hours early before going to movie

set because he needs to work out

because if he does not work out every

morning he feels totally out of balance

now to me that sounds crazy I would

rather sleep right if he’s averaging

five hours of sleep on a movie set I’d

rather sleep two-three hours more and

work out a little bit less but for him

that’s what balance looks like and if I

judge myself worth and my schedule based

off of what dwayne johnson schedule is

I’m always gonna lose because he’s doing

him and he doesn’t care what everybody

else is doing and I’m too busy trying to

be him instead of being me and that’s

how most people think that’s the buckets

that most people fall into and so if you

learn how Dwayne does it or you learn

how Ilan does it or anybody else it’s

great to try on the clothes it’s great

just to see how it feels maybe they’re

doing something different that can help

you figure out balance better for

yourself but if it doesn’t work out

they’ll judge yourself it’s just like

watching these top ten rule videos that

I put out not every rule is gonna

resonate with you take the one or two

that really fit and run with them if you

try on Dwayne’s schedule you try and

Ilan schedule it may be a total misfit

that’s fine

but there may be one thing that they do

that really works for you great keep

that and ditch the rest and stop judging

yourself the other quick thing I want to

talk about here is sleep so many people

focus on how much sleep you’re getting

where what I would encourage you to do

is think about what are you doing while

you’re awake right if ilana sleeping six

or six and a half hours I guarantee you

if he slept eight hours or nine hours or

12 hours if he’s sleeping 12 hours the

12 hours that he’s awake he’s getting

more stuff done in the 16 hours that

you’re awake and so much more important

than looking at how much sleep you’re

getting and how much sleep these these

higher performers are getting audit your

schedule audit your day-to-day audit the

hours that you are actually awake and

see how productive they actually are I

was doing a photo shoot recently taking

some pictures new headshots and social

media shots and while my photographer

was setting up the next scene I was I

was working while he’s doing his thing

instead of just waiting I’m working I’m

on Instagram making video responses I’m

on email responding like every minute

counts I try to make every minute count

it’s important to me

ingvar comp rad who started IKEA said

divide your life up into ten minute

chunks and then waste as few of those 10

minute chunks

as possible and that applies not just a

business that applies to life like when

I’m with my wife I’m with my wife we’re

together we’re enjoying that moment

together whether that’s for an hour a

day five hours a day an entire day on a

weekend like I’m with her and I want

that time to mean something same thing

with my son same thing with my dog same

thing with my team same thing with my

business it’s not about for me balancing

how much time I’m spending in my

business versus with my wife or

something else it’s much more the time

I’m spending in all these places has to

count where I bet you if I jumped into

your schedule your day to day you’re

wasting a ton of time during the day and

you think the answer is to wake up an

hour earlier where it’s not the answer

is make every minute count that you are

currently awake try that first before

you give up on sleep and so I think

ultimately it’s great to learn from

successful people that’s what my entire

channel is about I love it I love violin

success I think that’s how you become

the best version of yourself but you

can’t judge yourself against what

somebody else is doing because

ultimately your goal is not to be them

your goal is to be a better version of

you and so to make that happen you’re

taking different little tiny pieces from

different people to see what fits well

with you and that means most of the

things that you learn from them will not

work 99% of the things that you learn

from somebody may not work but if that

1% works and help you grow helps you get

stronger helps you get better then

that’s your ultimate goal and please

please please stop judging yourself

based off of somebody else’s definition

of balance and somebody else’s number of

hours that they’re working is somebody

else’s number of hours that they are

sleeping at the end of the day you don’t

want their life you don’t want to be a

junior version of them you want to be

the best version of you and so figuring

out balance is an important exercise and

self-awareness and they’ll hope you get

it down because when you do it makes all

the difference in the world now I’ve got

a really special bonus clip but before

that question of the day I want to know

from you what is one thing that you have

learned from someone who’s had a lot of

success with this elan or somebody else

that you’ve adopted and it’s stuck one

kind of habit one scheduled hack

something that you’ve learned about your

routine that you’ve learned from

somebody else and you apply on a daily

basis and it’s actually had a big

difference for you leaving the comments

below I’m really cured

to find out thank you guys so much for

watching I believe in you I hope we

continue to believe in yourself and

whatever your one word is

much love I’ll see you again tomorrow

morning for another shot of espresso and

I got great advice from you know one of

the people that totally fascinates me is

Bob Iger he’s the CEO of the Walt Disney

ABC world and he so his job is so weird

to me because he is in charge of

everything from like a Disney cruise to

George Stephanopoulos ABC News like he

thought he had to like a theme park to

scandal like every all of that falls

into the ABC Disney family and I asked

him and it was very helpful to me I

asked him a few months ago like how do

you decide what you’re gonna work on in

a day and he said something so valuable

to me so I’m gonna share with you guys

he said 80% of his time he tries to

think about where can I have impact

where am I going to make a difference in

the day today so it may not usually be

Disney cruises but sometimes it needs to

be because the cruise business has been

doing what the cruise business is doing

or that’s not quoting him by the way but

there you know it may sometimes it’s a

Broadway show that’s about to open

sometimes it’s they eat the ESPYs cuz

ESPN that’s where his focus needs to be

so it’s really about like where can I

have impact today and the other where am

I needed the other 20% is what brings me

joy you know so there are certain movie

projects that fall under the ABC disney

world that bring him joy or certain

shows or certain you know an opening of

a park or there are certain things that

bring him that just fill him up that

fall in his work responsibilities and I

just really tried I’ve tried to bring

that with me because you know it’s

important for us to remember the joy in

what we do it’s important to be

effective in our workplace but it’s

important to cultivate the moments that

just bring us joy because that’s how

we’ll shine in our in our lives as

professionals you know so you an actor

whose philosophy is to work or to wait

are you more of a like I’m not going to

do anything until I find the right thing

or you’re just like I should be working

in a little bit of a workaholic but but

I can’t but I need to I feel like I like

to take my time

I want to be able to select what I

should do I like to explore try to

explore different things different types

of of experiences but movies select you

and by that I mean the director and a

script they are the ones that are going

to throw the party and you want to be

you want to go to the best party you

know we use the metaphor of a party for

a movie so a good director and a

interesting story will always you know

dominate the choices that I make or

control the choices that I make because

if right now is a great director with an

interesting script comes to me and wants

me to do a character that might not be a

huge stretch but to be involved with a

what a team movies are not made alone

team is teamwork

that always will be like a exciting and

I might take the first place a good team

might take the first place but I like to

take my time but but I like to work too

so you know just a good balance you know

just keep a good balance

I don’t think waiting to sometimes just

good to wait because you get exhausted

after doing movies you know you’re kind

of like you know I give it give it a lot

of energy so I’m kind of like exhausted

but but you know a balance you know

might wait for a little bit and then do

one to two movies almost back-to-back

raise your standard Apple at the core

its core value is that we believe that

people with passion

and not one drop of myself work depends

on your it’s something Sammy

I don’t ever give up I’d have to be dead

or absolutely incapacitated

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