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Ideas, Elon Musk

How to Generate Ideas Like Elon Musk

A look into the mind of Elon Musk and his ability to generate ideas.

Published in
8 min readMar 17, 2020

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Elon Musk is a man who needs no introduction. His soaring drive, grit, tenacity, and passion to change the world has left a big mark on the world today. This eccentric billionaire managed to conquer four separate fields — Software (Zip 2, PayPal), Energy (Solar City), Transportation (Tesla) and Aerospace (SpaceX) all of which are multibillion-dollar companies, before his mid-40s.

Elon Musk possesses an ingenious mental model and pure grit that provides him the impetus to achieve his unprecedented success. From promoting Earth’s sustainability with EVs, providing internet to all parts of the world, to creating the Starship and nuking Mars, allowing humanity’s existence to perpetuate in case climate change conquers us.

Elon’s “crazy” ideas

This eccentric man has tons of crazy ideas for humanity. After making a fortune from PayPal in the original dotcom boom, he’s founded Tesla, which popularized the electric car, and SpaceX, the rocket company that now flies plenty of NASA payloads.

“Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.”

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