Elon's hiring criteria: evidence of exceptional ability

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Episode 797: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) react to the wildest Elon Musk interview yet. 

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Show Notes: 

(0:00) We react to the elon podcast

(6:11) Evidence of exceptional ability

(10:33) Maniacal sense of urgency

(11:36) limiting factor

(23:31) Human emulators

(39:33) Stolen focus

(55:39) IDEA: Attention testing

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Links:

• Full interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYXbuik3dgA 

• Stolen Focus - https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Focus-Attention-Think-Deeply/dp/0593138511 

• Kumon - https://www.kumon.com/ 

• Lightwork - https://www.lightworkhome.com/aboutus 

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• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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