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Elon Musk once told

Rolling Stones, I was raised by books, books, and then my parents.

And years later, he taught himself rocket science the same way, from textbooks that he borrowed.

Learning a new skill fast means getting good enough to use it in days or weeks instead of years.

And in 2016, Pew Research found

that only 36 % of American adults had taken a course

or gotten extra training in the past year to get better at their work.

One of the things I love so much about Elon Musk is just how big that he thinks.

He's trying to create a backup plan for all of humanity.

And anytime I think that I'm thinking big with my goals, I just look at Elon and realize

that I still have a lot of room for growth myself and I get inspired by that.

So I wanted to make this video

because most of my best mentors are people that I have never met and Elon is one of them.

I've learned so much from people through their videos and it's why I'm so passionate about making content like this.

Now, I haven't met Elon yet, but the way he picks up a new skill is something

that you can copy and it can help you go after bigger goals of your own too.

So if you learn the way Elon does,

you could pick up the skills that your business needs in the next few weeks instead of putting it off for years.

If you don't, you'll end up waiting until you feel ready or keep paying somebody else to do it for you.

There are 10 ways Elon Musk learns a new skill in under 30 days and I'm going to cover them today.

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Number one, he reads the textbooks himself.

So when you want to learn something new, it's tempting to wait for a course or wait for a teacher to show you.

The people who wrote the textbooks already spent years figuring the subject out.

A textbook costs a few dollars and you can start reading it tonight.

Reading the real material gives you the same base that the experts started from.

That's how Elon taught himself rocket science. In 2001,

Elon started planning a mission to Mars and he began borrowing rocket textbooks from an aerospace consultant named Jim Cantrell and others.

They included rocket propulsion elements, fundamentals of astrodynamics, and aerothermodynamics of gas turbine and rocket propulsion.

When his PayPal friends met in Las Vegas to celebrate the sale of their company,

Elon sat in a cabana at the Hard Rock reading an old

Soviet rocket manual.

Kevin Hart, an early PayPal investor, said, Elon is there reading some obscure

Soviet rocket manual that was all moldy

and looked like it had been bought on eBay control later

realized why Elon had been boring all of his college textbooks on rocketry

he said you know whenever anybody asked Elon how he learned to build rockets

he says I read books well that's true he devoured those books he knew everything

so find the textbooks as the experts in your field learn from

and read the first chapter this week one of my favorite ways to learn is not just through books

but through videos I love learning about famous entrepreneurs I love watching your videos I learn from the things

that they say but also how they say it and you get a glimpse behind the scenes of how they think.

It's why I did the top 10 rules of success series on this channel

because I want to learn from these successful people and how they think and how they operate and how they work.

So whether it's books, whether it's videos, however you learn best, surround yourself with the people who are doing the thing

that you want to do and the more that you are around them

and learn how they learn the more you will pick up and be able to solve your business problems too.

Number two, he learns the trunk before the leaves so

if you start with the details there's nothing to connect them to

and then you forget about them the basic principles of a subject are what everything else hangs on once

you know them each new detail they have a place to go

so you can remember it more easily that's why learning the basics first makes everything afterward faster

so elon explained this when someone asked how he learned

so much on january 5th 2015 elon answered questions from the public on reddit one person listed the fields

that he seemed to know from aerospace to electrical engineering to software energy storage

and he asked how do you learn so much

so fast Elon started his answer with I do kind of feel like my head is full

then he gave the advice

it is important to view knowledge as a sort of semantic tree make sure

you understand the fundamental principles i .e the trunk

and the big branches before you get into the leaves

and details or there is nothing for them to hang on to

so more than 5 ,000 people upvoted that answer

and think about it for yourself before you study the details of a new skill, think about the three ideas,

the fundamentals that everything else depend on.

One of the fundamentals that I like to hold on to is whatever problem that I'm trying to solve, somebody has already solved it before.

I call it modeling the masters, right?

I try to model the masters who've come before me.

So whatever challenge that I'm facing, challenge you're facing, somebody has done it before.

They have solved that problem before.

You don't have to figure it all out yourself.

You can go learn their story, see how they overcame it and apply it to your situation so you can get there faster.

Number three, he works it out from the raw material.

So when something seems too expensive or too hard, you usually just accept the price that somebody quotes you.

That quote is is only their answer.

That's not the full answer.

If you break the thing down to what it's actually made of, you can see what it should really cost.

That's called reasoning from first principles and Elon loves using it.

And he used it after Russian rocket sellers turned him down.

So in late October 2001, Elon flew to Moscow to buy a rocket with Jim Cantrell and his friend Adio Resi.

On a later trip, Russian officials told him a missile would cost $8 million and he offered $8 million for two.

Cantrell said they sat there and looked at him and said something like, young boy, no. On the flight home, Elon turned around in a seat,

showed them a spreadsheet and said, I think we can build this rocket ourselves.

He later explained it to Wired and said, physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

So I said, OK, let's look at the first principles.

What is a rocket made of?

He found the materials cost around 2 % of a typical price of a rocket.

So in September 2008, his Falcon 1 became the first privately developed liquid -fueled rocket to reach orbit.

So take the most expensive thing in your business and write down what is actually made of.

And this whole reason by first principles thing is new, and I learned it from Elon Musk.

And I'm sure other people have talked about it before, but that's one of the things I most associate with him in learning,

is you could take any problem

and break it down to the core principles as opposed to only what other people have said.

And yes, it's great to learn from other people.

And if you can look at maybe the things that everybody else is doing is wrong,

maybe the way that has been built for years or decades, maybe it's wrong.

Maybe it's built on some wrong assumptions or things have taken some sideways turns.

And you can reason by first principles of what is your problem actually made of?

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What do your clients actually care about?

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And build up from there.

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You can shortcut sometimes years or decades of experience that other people have and get there a lot faster.

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number four he goes straight to the experts

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so books can only take you so far

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and often the fastest way to fill in the gaps is

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to also ask the people who are already doing the thing experts usually answer good questions especially

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if you show up and you're eager

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and you're prepared one conversation can save you years of guessing

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and elon went looking for the best rocket people

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that he could find

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so in mid -2001 elon showed up at the 500 a plate mar society fundraiser

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and handed them a check for five thousand dollars robert zurbin who ran the group said that made everyone take notice.

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Elon then brought space experts together for meetings at a hotel by the Los Angeles airport and another in Palo Alto.

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And in 2002, he met an engineer named Tom Mueller at a warehouse where

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Mueller was building an 80 -pound rocket engine designed to produce 13 ,000 pounds of thrust.

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And Elon asked him, can you build something bigger?

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Mueller said he was very focused.

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He asked if I could build it.

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And I said, yes, if I had the right people.

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Then Elon said, how much would it cost.

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Mueller never fired that engine and he joined Elon's new company instead.

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So think about somebody who's already done the thing

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that you want to learn from and whether you can go meet them in person

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or learn from them through videos or books to understand how they operate, how they solve the problem, can shortcut your path.

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Also, if you want to take real action after this video, I made a free worksheet just for you.

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It has the top lessons from the video, space for your takeaways.

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It's 100 % free.

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Just click the link in the description below to go grab it and I'll see you there.

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Number five, he learns by building something real.

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So reading about a skill isn't the same as actually using it, right?

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You find out what you don't know the first time you actually try to make something.

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Every mistake shows you exactly what you need to learn from next.

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A real project also gives you a reason to keep going because it's something that you're actually building some momentum towards.

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As an example, Elon learned the code this way when he was a kid.

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At 10, Elon had a Commodore VIC -20, a home computer that had five kilobytes of memory.

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It came with a workbook on the basic programming language

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that was designed to take six months and he finished it in about three days.

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He said it came with this manual about how to program basic.

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I spent all nights several days in a row absorbing that

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and at 12 he wrote a space game called Blastar 167 lines of code.

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A South African magazine called PC and Office Technology published it and paid him about $500.

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So more than anything in this video pick one of the ideas that we're coming up with here and just apply it.

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Start building.

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Start learning.

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Start putting it into practice in your life or in your business

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because that's when you start to actually see momentum towards achieving your goals.

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Number six, he keeps asking how he could do it better.

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If you never look back at what you did, what happens?

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You repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

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After each try, a short review will tell you what part worked and what part needs to change.

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That's how each attempt gets a little bit better than your last one.

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If you're not doing the review, practice does not make perfect practice just makes the same bad habits stronger.

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Elon calls this a feedback loop.

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So SpaceX's first three

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Falcon 1 launches failed.

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And on September 28, 2008, the fourth one reached orbit and Elon walked out to the factory floor to have cheers from his team.

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He said, as the saying goes, the fourth time is a charm, right?

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In 2012, he was splitting his week between SpaceX in LA

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and Tesla in Palo Alto and Mashable asked him how he made it all work.

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And he said, I've actually not read any books on time management.

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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop where you're constantly thinking about what you've done

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and how you could be doing it better.

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I think that's the single best piece of advice.

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constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

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So homework after your next attempt you're trying some new skill it works

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or doesn't work write down the one thing that worked the one thing

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that you're going to try to improve the experiment and test next time.

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Number seven he sets deadlines that feel impossible.

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When you give yourself a year to learn something

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it usually takes a year right a short deadline forces you to cut what doesn't matter and focus on what actually does.

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It also tells everyone around you that this matters right now.

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You'll miss some of those deadlines sometimes.

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That's okay.

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Elon sets them anyway and his team knows it.

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So one of SpaceX's earliest presentations promised the first finished engine by May 2003 and the first launch by November 2003.

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About 15 months after the company started, Kevin Brogan, an early SpaceX hire, said he will pick the most aggressive time schedule imaginable,

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assuming everything goes right and then accelerate it by assuming that everyone can work harder.

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The first Uber came in 2008, years later than the plan.

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In 2018, when Tesla fell behind on the Model 3,

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the team built a whole extra assembly line in a tent in the parking lot in its Fremont, California factory.

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Elon called it a pretty miraculous effort by the team to create a general assembly line out of nothing in three weeks.

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So take a skill that you've given yourself a year to learn and set a 30 -day deadline for that instead.

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Number eight, he puts in the hours.

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Learning fast takes a lot of practice in a short, condensed amount of time.

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An hour a week takes a skill out over years.

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Ten hours a week gets you there in months.

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The more hours you put in early, the sooner the skill starts to pay you back.

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So Elon has never hidden how many hours he works.

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In November 2018, Elon tweeted that SpaceX, Tesla, the boring company, and Neuralink are the places to be if getting things done matter to you.

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Then he said there are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.

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When someone asked how many hours it does take, he said 80 hours a week was sustainable with peaks above 100 at times.

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He said pain level increases exponentially above 80.

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That same year, he told the New York Times his work week had stretched to as much as 120 hours.

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He said there were times where it didn't leave the factory for three or four days.

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Now, you don't need to work 120 hours a week

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but you can block five extra hours this week for the skill

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that you're learning put them on your calendar so it gets done

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when it gets scheduled you're much more likely to actually follow through

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and accomplish it number nine he learns where the work actually happens

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so the people doing the work see problems

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that never come up in a meeting

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when you spend time where the work actually happens

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you learn how things really get done you also find out quickly when your own plan is going wrong.

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That's much harder to see from an office.

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And Elon learned this the hard way at Tesla.

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In 2018, Tesla was struggling to build its Model 3 fast enough.

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He said, we were losing $50 million, sometimes $100 million a week.

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He told CBS's Gail King, I'm sleeping on the factory floor, not because I think that's a fun place to sleep.

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You know, terrible.

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Tesla had to build the Model 3 line with a lot of automation and the cars were coming out way behind schedule.

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And on April 13, he tweeted, yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake

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To be precise, my mistake, humans are underrated.

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So homework in your business, spend one day this month where the work actually happens with the people who are actually doing it

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and write down what surprises you.

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And number 10, he moves what he learns from one field into another.

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Every skill you learn gives you more ideas to work with.

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So a problem in one field has often been solved in another.

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When you know both fields, you can carry the answer across from one to the other.

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It also means that you aren't starting from zero each time you're trying to learn something new.

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So Elon does this between SpaceX and Tesla.

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In August 2017, on the call with his Tesla investors, Tesla's John McNeil described the problem the service team had just come up with and faced.

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They needed to check an object deep inside an aluminum casting.

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And that's something SpaceX's engineers know how to do.

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The SpaceX team helped them solve it with ultrasound sensors so they could quickly find the issue and then fix it.

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And Elon said it saved us eight hours of work per car.

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This cross fertilization of knowledge from the rocket and spacecraft industry to auto and back and forth, I think has really been quite valuable.

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This is also why I love modeling success so much, because as I learn from different successful entrepreneurs, I apply different parts of their thinking,

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of their experiences, of their history to whatever problem I'm facing right now.

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And I think the more you study successful entrepreneurs

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and how they got started and what makes them tick and the problems they solve,

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you will eventually come across multiple different solutions for the problem that you're facing right now.

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Even if it doesn't make sense in the moment, like why am I studying this?

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Why am I learning from this person?

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Why do I find inspiring?

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Down the road, you will pull elements from their story

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that can help you in the moment with that problem because you've already spent the time studying them.

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Pick one skill and give it 30 days.

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So it's easy to look at Elon Musk now

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and think he just learned so fast because he's a genius and he has billions of dollars.

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He learned the code at 10 from a workbook

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that came with his computer and he learned rockets from textbooks that he borrowed from his friends.

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You can borrow a textbook too.

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This is not something that's beyond you.

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So read the textbooks yourself.

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Learn the trunk before the leaves.

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Work it out from the raw materials.

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Go straight to the experts and learn by building something real.

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Keep asking how you could do it better.

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Set deadlines that feel impossible.

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Put in the hours.

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Learn where the work actually happens and move what you learn from one field into another.

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Pick one skill you've been putting off and give it the next 30 days.

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Read the book, ask the expert and build something small with it immediately you don't need to feel ready to start.

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And 30 days from now, you will be glad that you did.

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And congratulations, you're one video closer to who you're meant to be, but leave.

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Now let's learn how Elon cuts through doubt to make a decision.

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Elon Musk makes bigger decisions in five minutes than you make in a month.

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Tesla this year, we'll do over a hundred billion in revenue.

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So that's $2 billion a week.

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If I make slightly better decisions, I can affect the outcome by a billion dollars.

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First principles analysis, I think is something that can be applied to really any walk of life,

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anything really it's really just saying let's boil something down to the most fundamental principles the things

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that we are most confident are true at a foundational level

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every one of those decisions goes through the same short list of questions his biographer walter azikson reported

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that elon made about a hundred command decisions in a single

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day walking the factory floor first make your requirements less dumb

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your requirements are definitely dumb does not matter who gave them to you it's particularly dangerous

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if a smart person gave you the requirements because you might not question them enough.

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Try very hard to delete the part or process.

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This is actually very important.

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If you're not occasionally adding things back in, you're not deleting enough.

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Elon will be wrong on some of them, but he'll still be further ahead than the person who waited.

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Whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name, not a department.

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Because you can't ask the department, you have to ask a person.

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And that person who's putting forward the requirement or constraint must agree that they must take responsibility for that requirement.

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So you should always like assume that you're to some degree wrong

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and you want to be less wrong this is i think very important it's a little tougher on the ego

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but it's great for getting to the truth of things in 2018 spacex had spent years

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and a lot of money building starship out of carbon fiber

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there was tooling for it there were engineers whose whole job was carbon fiber

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and elon musk threw the material out

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and told them to build the rocket out of stainless steel instead until october last year

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we were pursuing a completely different design

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so it was really i switched the design to steel

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i think yeah approximately maybe october last year now this was a decision based on math.

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He said it like this.

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The carbon fiber is $135 a kilogram, 35 % scrap.

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So you're starting to approach almost $200 a kilogram.

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The steel is $3 a kilogram.

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So the material he'd been building with cost about 45 times what the material he switched to cost.

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And the steel was better in the place it mattered most because carbon fiber starts falling apart above 150 degrees Celsius.

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And the stainless aloe he picked holds up past 800 degrees.

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It also has high melting temperature

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so for a reusable ship you're coming in like a meteor you want something

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that does not melt at a low temperature you want something else at a high temperature

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and this is where steel is extremely good as well

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and it wasn't just a material swap carbon fiber had to be laid up in an autoclave by specialists

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and steel gets welded so the change throughout the tooling the suppliers

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and a chunk of what the team had learned how to do

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and it made the rockets buildable outdoors in a texas field instead of inside a clean room

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which is why the thing got built as fast as it

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did very easy to weld stainless steel the evidence being

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that we welded it outdoors without a factory with carbon fiber this is impossible with aluminum lithium also impossible

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but steel is very easy to weld

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and it is resilient to the elements the team fought him on it

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and he said

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so it took me quite a bit of effort to convince the team to go in this direction

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then he told the reporter obviously i'm in love with steel

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so here's elon betting his biggest program on the material change

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and the reason why came down to two things it's cheaper by 45 times and it survives the heat.

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The rocket standing in Texas right now is stainless steel

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because one person ran the numbers on what the thing is actually made of and then acted on the answer immediately.

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Now, you can say, well, he's Elon Musk.

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He has billions of dollars and he can afford to be wrong.

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And you can't.

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If you made a bad call on your business, that could be your house.

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Except being wrong is something Elon accounts for.

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He's making 100 decisions a day

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and he says at least 20 % are going to be wrong and we're going to alter them later.

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But if we don't make decisions, we die.

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He's saying a fifth of his calls come out wrong

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and the company still moves faster because he made a decision instead of procrastinating on them.

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And he does get them wrong on a big scale too.

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In December 2022, he decided to shut down

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Twitter's Sacramento data center.

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His own manager said moving those servers would take six to nine months.

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He gave them 90 days, then flew there on Christmas Eve and started pulling servers off the racks himself with a borrowed pocket knife.

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Months later, he admitted, in retrospect, The whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake.

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He was wrong.

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It was in public it was a big mistake, and he still makes more progress in a month than the person who over analyzes everything.

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He wrote the reason into the operating rules at both companies, a maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.

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Urgency here means a bias about time.

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So a decision that could be made today is a decision that gets made today.

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And the difficult answer to when is always now.

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So how does he make so many decisions so quickly?

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Elon has a fixed set of questions that he runs every decision through.

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And we're going to talk about each of those six right now.

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Question number one, what's actually physically true here?

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So for years, the whole car industry agreed that battery packs cost about $600 per kilowatt hour and always would.

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Every plan in the industry was built on that number.

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And it's why electric cars were always written off as just too expensive and will never work.

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Musk didn't argue with the $600.

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He just asked a different question.

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What do we know is actually physically true about this situation?

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So he broke a car battery pack down into the stuff it's physically made of,

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cobalt, nickel, aluminum, carbon, the polymers in the separator, a steel can.

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And he looked up what those materials cost that day on the London Metal Exchange, and he added them up.

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The total was about $80 per kilowatt hour.

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The $600 price was coming from how the battery pack was being made

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and how a thing is made as something that you can change.

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That one calculation is why

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Tesla built its own cells instead of buying them.

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And it's why the price came down for the people who bought those cars.

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There's an awesome line he gives his engineers.

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The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics.

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Everything else is a recommendation.

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So physics is the short list of things that nobody gets to argue with.

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Everything else, pricing, timelines, industry standards, the way it's always been done, they're on the other list.

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And the other list is something that you can change and influence.

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It reminds me of the Steve Jobs quote around everything around

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you has been created by somebody who's no smarter than you and you can change it and you can influence it.

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So you're carrying your own version of a $600 number, a price that you accepted, a timeline that somebody quoted you,

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a rule about how your industry works.

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You got it from other people in your industry and you never analyzed it yourself.

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So take one industry assumption this week.

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Write down what the thing is actually made of

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or actually takes to make happen in hours and in dollars and then add it up yourself.

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And then do the same with another one next month.

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All progress begins with telling the truth.

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And the first truth is usually a number somebody else gave you that you never checked.

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Question number two, whose name is on this requirement?

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So step one of the process Musk runs at both companies is to question every requirement.

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And to do

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that, he says every requirement has to arrive with a person's name on it rather than a department

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or compliance or the customer.

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A human being is responsible that you can go and talk to about it.

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So here's what Elon has said.

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Your requirements are definitely dumb.

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It does not matter who gave them to you.

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And he says the dangerous ones come from smart people because when a smart person hands you a requirement, nobody argues with it.

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So it just gets approved and it sits in a business for years, whether it's right or not.

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A requirement from somebody junior usually gets challenged.

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A requirement from the smartest person in the building gets written into the spec

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and inherited by people who never met that person.

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And six years later, a team is designing around a decision that never made sense in the first place.

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You have these in your business and life too.

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The report nobody reads, the approval step for a thing that never once has been rejected, the 12 page onboarding doc.

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Each of these exist because somebody asked for it at some point, but you can't name who or when or for what reasons.

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So take your three most annoying recurring tasks and write a person's name next to each one.

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Whoever actually wants this.

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If you can't fill in a name, you found something to delete and you should run the same test on three more next month.

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Half the work sitting on your calendar is somebody's old preference that nobody has questioned since.

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Question number three, what can I delete right now?

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Step three is to delete the part or the process.

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So Musk's problem with deleting is that people are too careful about it.

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So he puts a number on it that tells you when you've cut enough.

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He says, if you're not adding things back in at least 10 % of the time, you're clearly not deleting enough.

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You're supposed to cut so hard

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that roughly one in 10 of your cuts turns out to be a mistake that you have to reverse.

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If you never have to put anything back, then you weren't actually cutting enough in the first place.

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He said, possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.

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Making a useless process 30 % faster is worse than useless because now the useless process is efficient.

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Everybody gets to say they made progress, but nothing actually happened.

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Once you've cut, then you can speed up the process then you can automate

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it last he's got a line for people who just skip right to speed

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if you're digging your grave don't dig faster automated a step

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you should have deleted just means the wrong thing now happens itself at scale faster without anybody watching it

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so you don't work to improve your onboarding your content systems

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your sales process until you try to delete pieces of it first Thank you homework.

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Pick one process this week and cut something out of it instead of trying to improve it.

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Remove a step and run it without that step.

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Then do it again next week on the same process and keep going until you have to put something back.

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That moment when you put one thing back is a signal that you finally cut deep enough.

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Question number four, what does it cost versus what it's made of?

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Musk uses a ratio he calls the idiot index.

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You take what a finished part costs and you divide it by the raw materials in its cost.

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So his rule is that when that number comes out high, the money is going into how the thing gets made

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and who handles it on the way and not into the thing itself.

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So a rocket part that costs $10 ,000 with $200 of aluminum has an idiot index of 50.

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That part has a process problem or a supplier problem, and you can go and fix both of those.

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The useful part is what a high number tells you to go and look at.

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The price is coming from the machining, the certification, the shipping, the supplier's margin, and the three people who have to touch it along the way.

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And every one of those is something that a person decided and a person can undo and change.

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It takes about 30 seconds and it works on things that aren't rockets too.

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What do you pay for a lead?

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What does the ad that produced it actually cost you?

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What does an hour of your service cost a client?

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What does the labor in it cost you?

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What's your software bill against the thing that a replace would take in hours?

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Run that math on your three biggest expenses this week and put it into your calendar to run again every quarter.

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The gap between those two numbers is where a lot of your profit margin is hiding.

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And you've probably barely looked at that calculation.

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Question number five, am I still adding anything in this meeting?

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So I love this one.

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Elon Musk sent a company -wide email to Tesla staff calling excessive meetings the blight of big companies.

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And he gave his staff a permission almost nobody gets typically at work

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he tells them to walk out of a meeting

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or drop off a call the moment it's obvious they're not adding or getting value.

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Then he gives a reason.

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It is not rude to leave.

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It is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.

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The rude part is keeping a person in a room where they can't contribute

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and you staying in meetings just to be polite isn't making progress.

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So he runs the same rule upwards in the organization too.

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His managers are required to do the actual work and he's specific about why.

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He says all technical managers must have hands -on experience.

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For example, managers of software teams must spend at least 20 % of their time coding.

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A manager who can't do the work can tell a real constraint from a bad excuse.

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So the meeting fills up with people reporting instead of doing.

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He asked for the same thing on jargon and on the chain of commands.

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So drop the buzzwords because what they do is really just hide meaning.

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Talk to whoever can solve the problem instead of routing it back up and down through four different layers of management.

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Basically, the goal is to get to the shortest path to the answer possible, no matter who you have to talk to.

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So look at your calendar for the next week and find the meetings that you had nothing to.

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You already know which one of those are.

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Get out of it and check for a new one every Friday because they grow back like new arms.

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An hour a week is 50 hours a year, which is a working week and a half.

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You're getting back for one uncomfortable cancellation message you have to send.

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Question number six, have I decided or am I still deciding?

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So here's the last one and it turns the other five into even more speed.

461

On a good day, Musk makes about 100 command decisions walking the Tesla floor.

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He knew roughly 20 % of them were going to be wrong.

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So he trades some decisions that need to be changed in exchange for a company that's never waiting on him.

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He puts one condition on it though.

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He says, it's okay to be wrong.

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Just don't be confident and wrong.

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Being wrong fast is cheap when you set up front that you might be wrong.

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Because then everyone around you is paying attention.

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And if it fails, you can actually correct it pretty quickly.

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But being wrong after you sold the room on certainty is what becomes really expensive

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because people just assume that it's going to work.

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You've probably got the opposite problem though and are likely carrying a decision that you've held onto for weeks.

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And while it sits there on your calendar, people on your team can't move.

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What that costs you is another week of your business being stalled

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because everyone is waiting on you to finally make a decision.

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So give the next one five minutes.

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Run it through the questions.

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What's physically true?

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Whose name is on it?

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What can I delete?

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What's the idiot ratio?

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And am I adding value here?

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Then decide, apply it immediately and move forward.

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You know when the best time to start is?

485

Now.

486

How about right now?

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The rocket is made of steel because somebody decided.

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So the paper airplane on my logo on this YouTube channel, it's a paper airplane because it's breaking the sound barrier.

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And I think that's impossible.

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And that's what entrepreneurs do.

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We do the impossible every single day.

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Elon's Starship is impossible too.

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And it's standing in a field in Texas made out of the same steel

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that your kitchen sink is made out of because one person asked what the thing was physically made of,

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got an answer he didn't expect and acted on it that week instead of later that year.

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And the thing that made all this possible was small.

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Somebody looked up the price of steel, wrote it next to the price of carbon fiber and saw a number 40 times too big.

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That took a willingness to question how things are done and check a price the whole industry said was standard.

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So none of the six questions require you to have a ton of money.

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They don't require a factory or a team or somebody's permission.

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They're free, they're fast, and the only reason you're not running them is that nobody gave you the list of questions before,

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but now you've got that list.

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If you have the ability, then you have the responsibility.

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If you can, then you must.

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That's what my mom always told me.

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So pick the decision you've been carrying the longest, give it five minutes today, and get it off your desk,

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then do the same thing tomorrow with the next one

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because the best skill is in becoming the person that people stop waiting on.

509

Now let's learn Elon Musk's advice on how to stop playing it safe.

510

You know Elon Musk today as the billionaire innovator sending rockets to Mars and building electric cars, but rewind a few decades

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and picture a young Elon with barely a dollar to his name crashing on an office couch and showering at the YMCA.

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Sounds almost like an urban legend, right?

513

In fact, one of you, a subscriber named 70s Discozilla, straight up asked me, does anyone really believe he slept on YMCA floors?

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It's a wild idea.

515

Did Elon Musk really live like that?

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Well, let's break down the truth behind this story and more importantly, what it means for you and your entrepreneurial journey.

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Sleeping on the office floor, myth or reality?

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Elon Musk's humble beginnings aren't a myth, they were very real.

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In the mid -90s, when Elon and his brother Kimball started their first company, our startup eventually known as Zip2, they couldn't afford an apartment.

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So what did they do?

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They rented a tiny office instead and quite literally slept on the office couch to save money.

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No beds, no frills, just two young entrepreneurs catching Zs under their desks.

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And the YMCA part, absolutely true.

524

Ilana said that each morning he would shower at the local YMCA in Silicon Valley because the office had no shower.

525

Think about that for a second.

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One of the world's richest men was once showering at a public gym and sleeping in his makeshift office -slash -bedroom.

527

Why go to such extremes?

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Simple.

529

Cash was tight, and the dream was big.

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Elon and his team were pouring every hour and every dollar into building their startup.

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In his own words, our goal was literally how do we make enough money to pay the rent?

532

By crashing at the office, they slashed their living costs so they could invest more into the business.

533

It wasn't glamorous, but it was effective.

534

And by the way, Elon isn't alone.

535

This kind of sacrifice is more common among founders than you might think.

536

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บทเรียนฝึกพูดนี้ใช้วิดีโอ “This is How Elon Musk Learns a New Skill in Under 30 Days” เป็นสื่อ วิดีโอนี้มี 775 ประโยค และ 9526 คำ สำหรับฝึกพูดตาม ช่วงที่มีเสียงพูดยาว 46:06 ผู้พูดพูดเร็ว ประมาณ 207 คำต่อนาที จึงมีการเชื่อมเสียงและลดเสียงค่อนข้างมาก 85% ของคำอยู่ใน 3,000 คำที่ใช้บ่อยที่สุดในภาษาอังกฤษ ส่วนที่เหลือควรดูไว้ก่อนเริ่มฝึก

คำศัพท์สำคัญในวิดีโอนี้

คำที่ควรเรียนรู้ 15 คำจากวิดีโอ พร้อมคำอ่านและความหมาย:

คำศัพท์	คำอ่าน	ความหมาย
rocket คำนาม	/ˈɹɑk.ɪt/	จรวด
entrepreneur คำนาม	/ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/	ผู้ประกอบการ
principle คำนาม	/ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/	หลัก, คติ
sacrifice คำนาม	/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/	ยัญ, เมธ
solve คำกริยา	/sɒlv/	แก้, แก้ไข
textbook คำนาม	/ˈtɛkst.bʊk/	ตำราเรียน, ตำรา
delete คำกริยา	/dɪˈliːt/	ลบ
calendar คำนาม	/ˈkæl.ən.də/	ปฏิทิน
lesson คำนาม	/ˈlɛs.ən/	บทเรียน
fundamental คำคุณศัพท์	/ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/	พื้นฐาน, เบื้องต้น
deadline คำนาม	/ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/	เส้นตาย
founder คำนาม	/ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/	ผู้สร้าง, ผู้ก่อตั้ง
physics คำนาม	/ˈfɪz.ɪks/	ฟิสิกส์
manual คำนาม	/ˈmæn.j(u)əl/	คู่มือ
mathematics คำนาม	/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/	คณิตศาสตร์

กริยาวลีที่คุณจะได้ยิน

คำศัพท์	ความหมาย
give up คำกริยา	ยอมแพ้
pick up คำกริยา	ยก, หยิบ

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ประโยคสั้น ๆ ที่สมบูรณ์จากวิดีโอ ซึ่งนำไปใช้ในบทสนทนาประจำวันได้:

What do your clients actually care about?
Why am I learning from this person?
Why do I find inspiring?
Question number three, what can I delete right now?
What do you pay for a lead?

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โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้าง	ในวิดีโอ
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — การกระทำที่เริ่มก่อนหน้านี้และยังดำเนินอยู่	you've been putting · you've been carrying
ประโยคเงื่อนไข if + อนุประโยค, will/would + กริยา — เงื่อนไขและผลลัพธ์	If you don't, you'll end · if you want something badly enough you'll find
Present perfect have/has + กริยาช่อง 3 — เหตุการณ์ในอดีตที่ยังเกี่ยวข้องกับปัจจุบัน	have never met · I've learned · haven't met
Passive voice be + กริยาช่อง 3 — เน้นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น ไม่ใช่ผู้กระทำ	was raised · had been bought · is actually made

การออกเสียงที่ควรระวัง

ผู้พูดใช้รูปย่อและรูปลดเสียง 148 ครั้ง เช่น you're, don't, you've ให้พูดแบบสั้นตามที่ได้ยิน

เสียง “th”: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/, myth /mɪθ/, ethic /ˈɛθ.ɪk/, smooth /smuːð/
เสียง “sh” และ “zh”: ratio /ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, hardship /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
คำยาว — ลงเสียงหนักให้ถูกพยางค์: entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, aluminum /əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/, sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/

เสียงที่คนไทยมักออกเสียงยาก:

เสียงท้ายคำ — ออกเสียงให้ครบ ไม่เปลี่ยนเป็นตัวสะกดแบบไทย: skill /skɪl/, principle /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/, sacrifice /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/, solve /sɒlv/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/
/v/ — ไม่ใช่ /w/ ให้ฟันบนแตะริมฝีปากล่าง: solve /sɒlv/, server /ˈsɝvɚ/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, versus /ˈvɝsəs/
/z/ — เสียงก้อง ไม่ใช่ /s/: physically /ˈfɪz.ɪ.kli/, physics /ˈfɪz.ɪks/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/

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เริ่มที่ความเร็ว 0.75× พูดตามทีละประโยค แล้วกลับไปใช้ความเร็วปกติเมื่อเริ่มคล่อง
อัดเสียงตัวเองแล้วเทียบกับต้นฉบับ โดยสังเกตคำอย่าง rocket, entrepreneur, principle เป็นพิเศษ

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