Learning is one of the over-communicated but
under-leveraged tools of the common entrepreneur. Everyone talks about methods of learning,
but few people find realistic and authentic techniques that actually yield a net profit
in the information and application categories.

Elon Musk has broken through that barrier
with learning techniques that have proven successful not just once, but time and time
again. A good argument could be made that Musk has
leveraged his learning by becoming a disruptor. He and his companies have shifted entire industries,
including the transportation sector, the energy

sector, and the space sector. He recently announced at a press conference
that his plans for his biotech company Neuralink are progressing quite nicely, hinting at yet
another sector which his hands will likely shift in the coming years. Yes, Musk is a once-in-a-lifetime genius.

Likely on the same levels as Nikola Tesla,
Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. He has a different way of viewing problems
than the average entrepreneur. Of course, he reads hundreds of books. He works with top-level thinkers. He has astronomical levels of funding to put
towards his every whim.

But that’s not what makes him a great learner. His learning methods aren’t that regal. In fact, his two rules for how to learn anything
faster can be implemented by anyone at any time. Including you. You, too, can be a rocket scientist, if you
wanted.

Here’s how. When it comes to learning, Musk is quick to
note that he believes that most people can learn more than they currently know. When it comes to the average entrepreneur,
Musk claims that they often don’t break through their perceived limits and try to
learn beyond their current capacity.

Or, as he goes on to clarify, they don’t
know how to outline their information in a way that leads to further revelation. In a conversation on Reddit, Musk discussed
his approach to learning and the structure he uses as such:
“One bit of advice: it is important to view

knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make
sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you
get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.” From this, we begin to see Elon Musk’s first
rule of learning:

Rule #1 — Make sure you’re building a
tree of knowledge. What does this mean for you practically? It helps the common entrepreneur understand
that not everything is weighed with equal gravitas or importance. When it comes to learning, there is a difference
between material that ends up hanging from

a branch and the material that makes up the
base of the trunk of your tree. It’s the periphery vs. the central. Musk is a master of understanding what is
at the core of each of the sectors his entrepreneurial ventures sit in.

He starts there, ensuring that he has the
best possible grasp on the “trunk” material before moving off into the minutiae of the
branches and the leaves. Many of us do the opposite. We load up on periphery facts while never
fully understanding how or why they connect

back to the trunk. This outward-facing-in method leaves many
of our brains overcrowded with misidentified and, ultimately, unimportant knowledge. That’s not learning. It’s cramming. The result of our efforts is a tree with a
toothpick trunk and an overload of teeming

branches, threatening to snap off as we try
to cram one more idea or thought within our brains. If you want to learn anything faster, you
need to start with the materials that make up the trunk. It might be a tad slower at the onset, but
without a sturdy trunk, you won’t have the

base to support any additional learning and
skill. The brilliance of Elon Musk’s learning strategy
isn’t necessarily in his ability to understand core central concepts. Many entrepreneurs over generations have had
solid grasps on core tenets and principles. Musk’s brilliance is found in his second
rule of learning, which underlines his ability

to build vast and towering trees of intellect
across multiple sectors. Rule #2 — You can’t remember what you
can’t connect. This is how Musk was able to span sectors
and shift entire industries seemingly overnight. He started with solid roots and dense trunks,
and then as he began to grow his knowledge

upward, he began connecting branches and leaves
together with other branches and leaves from other trees. Musk never learns a piece of information at
random. Everything he intakes, he connects back to
some deeper, more solid base.

Most learners today are not master gardeners,
but stick collectors. We walk around life, picking up tidbits here
and tidbits there until our arms are full of sticks. Once we have a good bunch of sticks, we do
what comes naturally whenever there is a pile

of sticks laying around. We burn them. We think the size of our fires equals the
size of our learning. But we are slow to realize what Elon Musk
has built his entire learning structure on: that fires burn out. Musk plants trees, in rich soil, that grow
to be thick and abundant centers of learning.

You can do the same. You just need to embrace his two rules: build the trunk first, then work tirelessly
on making connections. Like any new system, it might take you a bit
to get the hang of it. You might actually feel like you are learning
slower than you did previously.

That’s okay. What you’re actually doing is building the
foundation for exponential growth. Henry Ford once said, “If you always do
what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” If you want to learn anything faster, try
the Elon Musk approach, but be warned.

You may end up becoming a rocket scientist
far faster than you previously thought possible.

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