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Elon Musk

Elon Musk的成就是Elon Musk的，Elon Musk的学习方法，是我们可以学习，也可能拥有的。

1971.6.28, Born in Pretoria, South Africa,

1981, when he was 10, his parents divoced, Musk developed an interest in computers,

1983, when he was 12, he sold his first software: a game he created called Blastar.

1989, Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University;Obtained His Canadian citizenship the same year;

1992, Musk left Canada to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania, He graduated with an undergradute degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor’s degree in physics;

After leaving Penn, Musk headed to Stanford University in California to pursue a PhD in energy physics. However, his move was timed perfectly with the Internet boom, and he dropped out of Stanford after just two days to become a part of it, launching his first company, Zip2 Corporation.

1995, Zip2, lauched with his brother Kimbal Musk, is an online city guide;

1999, Zip2 was bought by a division of Compaq Computer Corporation for $307 million in cash and ​$34 million in stock options;

1999, X.com, an online financial services/payments company, which later become PayPal;

2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock, Musk owned 11% of the PayPal stock;

2002, SpaceX; Become a U.S. citizen;

2003, Tesla Motors;

2012.5.22, SpaceX lauched its Falcon 9 rocket into space with an unmanned capsule;

2013.12, Falcon 9 successfully carried a satellite to grosynchronous transfer orbit;

Musk’s learning transfer superpower

Starting from his early teenage years, Musk would read through two books per day in various disciplines according to his brother, Kimbal Musk. It was not unusual for him to read for 10 hours a day in his childhood.

Learning transfer is taking what we learn in one context and applying it to another.

Musk has a unique two-step process for fostering learning transfer:

1. First, He deconnstructs knowledge into fundamental principles

   It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang onto.

   ​ — From a Reddit AMA by Musk

   Turning your knowledge into deeper, abstract principles facilitates learning transfer.

2. Then, He reconstructs the fundamental principles in new fields

   Keith Holyoak gives two question for hone skills: “What does this remind me of?” and “Why does it remind me of?”

Visual Memory

Musk’s mind works in a very visual way, he can see images in his mind’s eye with a clarity and detail we might associate today with an engineering drawing produced by a computer software.

Surrounded by Smart People

He moved to LA from sillin valley after selling PayPal, because NASA there.

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