![]() When it comes to productivity for himself and employees, Musk is well-known for his ruthless efficiency. Elon Musk : How to Build the Future | Y Combinator And then most of the rest of the week is just going through engineering of the car itself as well as the engineering of the factory because the biggest epiphany I’ve had this year is that what really matters is the machine that builds the machine the factory and that is at least towards a magnitude harder than the vehicle itself. And then at Tesla, it’s working on the Model 3 and some in the design studio typically half a day a week dealing with aesthetics and look and feel things. She kind of manages legal finance sales and kind of general business activity and then my time is almost entirely with the engineering team working on improving the Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars colonial architecture. Gwynne Shotwell is Chief Operating Officer. In a 2016 interview with Y Combinator, Musk described an example day in his life juggling Tesla and SpaceX: In a December 2019 tweet, Musk said that 90% of his time at SpaceX and 60% of his time at Tesla is spent on design and engineering. The majority of Musk’s work hours ( at least 90% according to Quartz) are split between Tesla and SpaceX, while the rest of the time he spends on other ventures, where he is a co-founder, investor, or executive. He also dabbles in Taekwondo, karate, judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. In terms of fitness, Musk confessed to Joe Rogan, “I wouldn’t exercise at all if I could,” although he does spend some time lifting weights and running on the treadmill while watching TV. While Musk will usually skip breakfast to save time - although he will occassionally grab a coffee and an omelette - there’s one daily habit that he’ll always find time for showering, which he attributes to the source of many ideas. I could drop below a certain threshold of sleep, although I would be awake more hours I would get less done because my mental acuity would be affected,” Musk said in a 2015 reddit AMA. I find if I don’t get enough sleep I’m quite grumpy. With a bedtime of around 1am, Musk typically wakes up at 7am, getting 6 to 6.5 hours of sleep, which, he discovered over the years is his sweet spot. Learn about the daily routines from the most successful people in the world by signing up to our newsletterĮlon Musk’s daily routine can be summed up as work, eat, sleep, with work taking up a bulk of that time. In a statement, Tesla’s board said, “Over the past 15 years, Elon’s leadership of the Tesla team has caused Tesla to grow from a small start-up to having hundreds of thousands of cars on the road that customers love, employing tens of thousands of people around the world, and creating significant shareholder value in the process.” ![]() There’s no denying that Musk’s workaholic habits have had a huge impact on the world and yielded tremendous results. Both are extremely successful founder-CEOs and both have their own unique approach to work-life balance. ![]() When it comes to the daily routines we’ve written about so far, I’ve found that there’s two ends of the spectrum, Jason Fried with his 40-hour workweeks (32 hours in the summer), and Elon Musk’s seemingly endless hours, often reaching over 100 hours a week. On Daily Routines, we profile successful leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, executives and athletes to explore their routines, schedules, habits and day in the life.
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