Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

The art of task switching 🔥 #elonmusk #workflow #getcreative #stayfocused #work #mindsetshift

6 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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Short transcript of a spoken clip describing Elon Musk’s approach to managing many responsibilities: intense, focused work on a problem followed by breaks (games or stimulating conversations) to ‘reboot’ before switching tasks. Emphasizes high switching costs, continual firefighting, and the need to master task/life/emotional switching when responsible for large teams and organizations.

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How Elon Musk does task switching. So he works intense on a problem or an issue and then he takes a break playing a game or something that is fun for him or a conversation with somebody really brilliant that challenges him and then that refreshes him, that reboots him and then he goes into another task because when you're managing as many moving parts as he is, that's how you do it. When people say gosh I wish I was you, he goes, no you don't. You would never want to be me because I live a hell of solving a problem and trying to get away from the ones that follow me around. It's like putting on fires every day, all day long, all day long and they affect the lives of tens of thousands of people of your employees. There's so much pressure for one human being switching cost is real. Learn to master switching right task switching, life switching, emotional switching. Learn to master that.