<div><p>Mark Zuckerberg is noted for his simple way of living.</p><ul><li>He is well known for his identical grey t-shirts and hoodies he wears through the workweek to help him expend little energy on what to wear.</li><li>He keeps his residence just a few blocks away from the offices, where he works up to 15 hours a day.</li></ul></div>

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<span>Bill Gates</span><span> </span><span>hacks his email with a larger three-monitor display area. One set is on the emails he's working on, and the last screen for a regular desktop. This way, he can multi-task more successfully.</span><br><span>He goes on an annual Think Week to a cabin in the woods to completely unplug. He takes with reams of documents and books. This way he gets a year's worth of reading and thinking in a week. He also goes over his past year and plans for the future.</span><br>

Emails and reading lists

<p>Elon Musk has three executive job titles, five kids, and is wildly ambitious. He officially clocks in no more than 15 hours at the office but has said he doesn't ever stop working. With this schedule, he still averages 6 hours of sleep a night.</p><p>He multitasks by sending emails while scanning invoices, holds meetings and takes care of business on his phone at the same time, and texts with his children on his lap.</p>

Multitasking

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<p><figure> <div><img src="https://image.businessinsider.com/56143044bd86ef16008bfcf5?width=600&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp"></div>
</figure>The leaders of the biggest companies on the planet are always trying to figure out what to do with their time, and it seems they all have come to one conclusion: work.</p>
<p>Approaching their ambitions with a single-minded intensity, none works less than 70 hours a week, including weekends, even at the expense of aspects of life other people value.</p>
<p>However, being armed with a strong idea, determined to be the best, and supported by a superhuman work ethic pays off: Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk are among the wealthiest people in the world, and, beyond that, they each helm technologies that have, or have the capacity to, change society in irreversible ways.</p>
<p>Each of the three, to make sense of his own busyness, has developed his own coping mechanisms.</p>
<p>From wearing the same faded grey T-shirt every day to escaping into the woods once a year to parse through volumes of paper, here are some unorthodox efficiency hacks from the three men at the very top. </p>
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The leaders of the biggest companies on the planet are always trying to figure out what to do with their time, and it seems they all have come to one conclusion: work. Approaching their ambitions with a single-minded intensity, none works less than 70 hours a week, including weekends, even at the expense of aspects of life other people value.

The unorthodox productivity hacks of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg

Simplicity

Emails and reading lists

Multitasking

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