The Tim Ferriss Show

Ep 56: How to Think Like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

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Jan 20, 2015
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INSIGHT

Solve Billion-Person Problems

  • Work on problems that can meaningfully change the world rather than incremental tweaks.
  • Solving billion-person problems creates outsized economic and social returns.
ADVICE

Disrupt Yourself Before Others Do

  • Regularly ask how you would disrupt your own company and run internal red-team challenges.
  • Give junior employees permission to find ways your business could be taken down to reveal vulnerabilities.
ADVICE

Experiment Relentlessly To Find Breakthroughs

  • Run many small experiments and accept frequent failure to increase the chance of breakthroughs.
  • Build a culture that treats experimentation as volume: more experiments equals more discoveries.
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