In an extended interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, the billionaire touched on current projects and life on Mars.
March 19, 2021
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This article was translated from our English edition.
In an extended interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, Elon Musk revealed in February that he manages to sleep six hours a night, despite balancing his responsibilities between all his companies.
Speaking of Joe Rogan’s experience, The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla seemed to handle Rogan when he talked about her work schedule.
“How do you have time? I never understand you when it comes to how you run multiple companies at once,” Rogan said. “It simply came to our notice then [el cohete SpaceX] it would take a lot of concentration, I think this would be your whole being, trying to figure out how this works. “
Musk responded bluntly by saying that he works “a lot”, adding that he usually works until 1 or 2 in the morning during the week. When Rogan asked him how long the tech entrepreneur slept, Musk didn’t hesitate to give a number.
“About six hours,” he said. – Not so crazy.
Musk later admitted to an impressed Rogan that he tried to sleep less, but noted that “overall productivity decreases” when he does so.
“I can’t find myself wanting to sleep more than six,” he said.
The nearly three-and-a-half-hour interview seems to have touched on every possible subject, from what humans would need to live on Mars to Musk’s concerns about artificial intelligence. At the beginning of the interview, the billionaire businessman even shared a fun fact, mentioning that he made Starship, the SpaceX rocket, more “spike” after watching Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2012 comedy The Dictator.
“I thought it would be funny if we made the rocket sharper, so we did it,” Musk said, adding that the design had no effect on the rocket’s aerodynamics.
In addition to overseeing SpaceX and Tesla, Musk runs or works for three other companies: The Boring Company, Neuralink and OpenAI.