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Elon Musk explains how anyone can learn to be innovative “I think it’s possible to learn to be innovative. A lot of times for any given thing, you have to say, ‘Did you try?’ This may sound obvious, but actually try. Somebody might wonder, ‘Can I be innovative?’ Well,...

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Elon Musk: "If you haven't thought until your brain hurts, then you haven't tried hard enough." Asked what it takes to do things the way he does, Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX) points first to mastering technology. "If you want to do things like me, you have to learn how to be good at technology. So study engineering, physics, that kind of thing. Understand how the world works, and try to be as accurate as possible about that." But knowledge alone isn't the point. The second ingredient is creativity: "Also try to be creative, which means just try to think of things that haven't been done before, but that would probably make the world better." Elon Musk is candid that none of this comes easily. Pairing technical accuracy with genuine originality demands enormous mental effort: "It requires a lot of mental effort to do that. I don't just combo stuff willy-nilly. I mean, occasionally, but it's rare." And that's where his standard for effort comes in. For Musk, the feeling of mental strain is the bar you're supposed to clear: "You really have to think until your brain hurts. If you haven't thought until your brain hurts, then you haven't tried hard enough."

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