Elon Musk: "If you punish people too much for failure, then they will respond accordingly… The innovation you will get will be very incrementalist. Nobody's gonna try anything bold for fear of getting fired or being punished in some way."
Elon Musk: "We want to have empathy that is deep, not shallow.
I strongly believe we should care about humanity and we should care about the future. But we need to have empathy that is deep, not shallow
Shallow empathy is caring about criminals, but deep empathy is caring about the victims of the criminals.”
Bill Ackman on getting through a stressful & negative period in your life…
I come back to this video so often. Any time I am in a bad spot. Worth the 2 minutes for sure.
“Most people don’t want be pushed that hard. They want to be pushed to their level of comfort. You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure,” Tom Brady
🎥 @dc_mma
Elon Musk on how to recruit the best talent in the world:
"For the really best people in the world, they'll want to know: is what they're doing going to matter? If they spend 10 years doing this, will it make a difference to the world? Will people notice? Will it matter?"
Elon breaks down recruiting talent into three core things.
As he puts it:
"If you want to recruit people that are really talented and driven, you have to state what's the mission, what's the problem we're trying to solve, and just be clearly willing to pour a lot of Blood, Sweat, and Tears into it. And have a convincing argument for why it matters."
The three major things for motivation:
"First of all, somebody's got to look forward to coming to work in the morning. Are they enjoying the work itself intrinsically? That's very important. And the right work environment can really make a big difference there."
Second:
"They also feel like they'll receive fair financial compensation. The financial rewards are good and fair."
And third, the one that separates good from exceptional:
"For the really best people in the world, they'll want to know—is what they're doing going to matter? If they spend 10 years doing this, will it make a difference to the world? Will people notice? Will it matter?"
The best talent wants impact, not just income.
Elon Musk was right!
When you care about the reality of doing good rather than the perception of it, you discover how hard it is to give money away responsibly and make sure it truly helps those in need.
Elon Musk just got real about sleep: "If I drop below a certain threshold, I'm grumpy—and worse, my brain slows down so much that I actually get less done, even with more hours awake."
Through trial and error, he found his goldilocks zone: 6 to 6.5 hours. Not more, not less.
It’s a powerful reminder—while AI like Grok runs 24/7 without crashing, the human minds building the future still need precise recharge to stay at their creative peak.
Watch the unedited 34-second clip attached.
Science backs this up: Large-scale studies, including UK Biobank data on hundreds of thousands, show peak cognitive performance and executive function around 6–8 hours, with sharper declines from too little sleep than too much.
Watch the unedited 34-second clip attached.
Elon Musk: Never trust a cynic, because most people are kind of medium good ❤️
“Never trust a cynic. The reason is, that cynics excuse their own bad behavior by saying everyone does it, because they're cynical. So I always be, it's a red flag if someone's a cynic, a true cynic.
But this is an important point that I think people listening should bear in mind. If somebody is cynical, meaning that they see bad behavior in everyone, it's easy for them to excuse their own bad behavior by saying, well, everyone does it, but it's not true. Most people are kind of medium good.”
You’ve been lied to.
The FDA doesn’t want you healthy.
They want you sick, fat, and stressed out.
Here are the 14 nutrition myths that are forced down your throat.
1/ Myth: Eggs Raise Your Cholesterol