Elon Musk is the world’s richest, talented and most powerful entrepreneur. Many times did Musk’s wild ideas have amazed the world. At the age 49, he leads four multi-billion companies. That too in four different areas like aerospace, energy, transportation, software. How is this possible for a person?
Musk, the hardworking mastermind is the face of the success of SpaceX, Tesla, The Boring Company, and Neuralink. Musk does not think about aptitude while undertaking new projects and does not evaluate his own taste in himself. Business experts generally consider him to be driven by passion instead. Musk works 85 hours a week for projects and ventures.
When an entrepreneur pursues his desires, it is essential to be as passionate as Musk. Musk proves that learning about different areas can be more helpful for innovation. Musk proves that you do not have to be an expert or a scholar in any field to succeed. Musk proves that it is enough to become an “expert generalist” instead.
Musk sees knowledge as a semantic tree. The Semantic Tree Approach says that the basics must first be understood in order to know all aspects of a subject. Musk’s habit of reading from a young age helped him with this. When it comes to reading, Musk has no specifications on topics. He reads about all the areas, without focusing solely on any one. Elon Musk learns about different areas, turns that knowledge into ideas, and tries those ideas in new ways.
Try the four steps on the Semantic Tree Approach. Identify your subject – Identify your subject. Analyze. Take notes. Broaden your scope- If you know the basics, add more references to what you need. Test yourself- Once you have the basic information, test it yourself. Experiments can be done both theoretically and practically. Knowledge of various fields will benefit not only the professional field but also the individual. Musk recreated the basic principles he had learned in artificial intelligence, technology, physics, and engineering into specific areas. He formed a company called SpaceX, taking a deroute from what everyone normally does in aerospace. Tesla tested self-driving cars. Hyperloop was another experiment. This is all about diversification. That’s how Elon Musk became an expert generalist. It was this knowledge that enabled Elon Musk to advance beyond the magical contemporaries and the giants of the business world. Musk’s life underscores that in the new age, an entrepreneur must be an expert generalist.
