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Modern polymaths:
Modern polymaths:
- Follow the 5-hour rule and put at least 5 hours per week into learning.
- Study widely in many different fields.
- Understand deeper principles and mental models that connect those fields.
- Apply those mental models to their core specialty.
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Jack of all trades. Master of none
Learning across multiple fields provides several unappreciated and significant advantages:
- Creating an atypical combination of two or more skills that you’re merely competent can lead to a world-class skill set.
- Gives you an information advantage(and therefore an innovation advantage) because most people focus on just one field.
- It future-proofs Your career.
- It helps you stand out and compete in the global economy.
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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. If you read one book a month, Musk would read 60 times as many books as you.
Musk is also good at a very specific type of learning that most others aren’t even aware of — learning transfer. This means taking what we learn in one context and applying it to another. It can be taking a kernel of what we learn in school or in a book and applying it to the “real world.” It can also be taking what we learn in one industry and applying it to another.
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It’s not magic. It’s just the right learning process
Now, we can begin to understand how Musk has become a world-class modern polymath:
- He spent many years reading 60 times as much as an avid reader.
- He read widely across different disciplines.
- He constantly applied what he learned by deconstructing ideas into their fundamental principles and reconstructing them in new ways.
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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.
ELON MUSK
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