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Jordan Peterson on Elon Musk: "My mind is a storm… I don’t think most people would want to be me"
"There was a recent interview with Elon Musk where he said something... 'My mind is a storm. I don't think most people would want to be me. They may think they would want to be me... but they don't. They don't know. They don't understand.'"
Peterson explains:
"One of the downsides to high-level genius is what you might describe as hypermania."
On verbal fluency and creativity:
"Here's a simple test. Write down as many four-letter words as you can in three minutes that begin with 'T.' Or write down as many words as you can in three minutes that begin with 'S.' There's quite a powerful correlation between the sheer number of words you produce and your lifetime creative achievement... especially in the artistic and verbal domains."
He distinguishes:
"That's different than vocabulary. Vocabulary is how many words you understand. Fluency is how many words you can produce in a given amount of time."
The variance is staggering:
"People vary to a degree you can hardly imagine. Some people... if you get them to do the four-letter test in three minutes... they'll write down 12 words. Some will write down 150. The ones writing down 150... their minds are going at a hypomanic rate. They're just thinking five times as fast. Without any remission whatsoever."
On when it goes too far:
"When that gets completely out of control, you have someone who's manic. There's nothing fun about manic. That's where the word 'maniac' comes from. Someone who's manic has a thousand different plans... each of which are one sentence long... that they're hyper-enthusiastic about. They'll spend every cent of their money pursuing them. And things just go immediately to hell."
He applies it:
"That's the outer limit of pathology on the creative front. Someone like Musk who's clearly a genius... that's what he's contending with in his internal landscape. I'm not saying he's manic because I see no signs of that. But someone that creative is on that edge."
On minds that move too fast:
"Take someone like Ben Shapiro. It's very interesting to talk to Ben... Russell Brand is the same way. Shapiro speaks more rapidly than anyone I ever met. But if you're with him, you see very clearly that he's probably thinking five times that fast. And that's a lot."
Peterson shares his own experience:
"When I was writing Maps of Meaning... my first book... I had a very difficult time shutting off my mind. I was obsessed with that book. I was writing about 3 hours a day. Then I was thinking about the material for like 12 hours. And the thoughts came way faster than thinking. They probably came about as fast as I can read... about 1,200 words a minute. It was just nonstop thought for 16 hours a day."
How he coped:
"That's part of the reason I started lifting weights. If I was lifting heavy... thinking at 1,200 words a minute while I've got 100 pounds on my back... it was enough to shut it down. It was also one of the reasons I drank. That was another thing that would shut it off."
On the price of genius:
"The price that people pay to be the person they admire is such an interesting frame. 'My mind is a storm. I don't think most people would want to be me.' The price you would have to pay in order to be me is not one you would want to pay."
The interviewer pushes back: but you're one of the richest men on the planet, you get to release bulletproof cars and put rockets in space...
Peterson:
"Yeah, but what about all the baggage? He also appears to me to be hyper-conscientious. Musk isn't just a creative genius... he's also an extremely conscientious engineer. Really conscientious engineers have very interesting minds. When they understand something... they understand how to build it out of atoms. They understand it at every single level."
On the rare combination:
"Musk appears to me to be someone who's this rare combination of hyper-creative but also hyper-conscientious. And I know he works all the time."
The interviewer asks: does that hypertrophied executive function help wrangle some of the diffuse creative energy?
Peterson:
"Yes. Definitely. Eric Weinstein is a good example... Eric is unbelievably creative but he's not particularly conscientious. I think he found an occupation where that works extremely well... he worked with Peter Thiel for quite a long time as his idea man."
He contrasts:
"Musk is hyper-creative and as far as I can tell hyper-conscientious. The conscientiousness does focus it. Lots of creative people aren't conscientious. There's no correlation between creativity and conscientiousness."
The math:
"If you're the most creative person in a thousand... and you're the most conscientious person in a thousand... you're one person in a million. Musk is probably more like one person in 100 million. Maybe more. Maybe a billion."
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@FrostyFinances @Kalshi Make humans multi-planetary. If you had $1T or 10T today, you can’t get to mars and the only way will be to build that whole industry . Probably the reason SpaceX is going IPO. Do you think 1T is enough to setup a self sustaining colony on mars and moon?
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@Kalshi But why? Really, what can you get with $10T that you can't get with $1T?
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@JohnMatayohgfs @teslaownersSV I think this is not the final form yet, probably not even close. The devs must be seriously cooking things we have no idea. Other platforms are in their final form and only few patches and updates happen. What’s YouTube or tiktok going to do next that’s big , a new filter 🤷🏽♂️
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Everyone says 𝕏 is in decline. The creator economics tell a different story.
A platform doesn't take its rev share down to zero unless it's playing a longer game than competitors. YouTube can't cut its 45% take without crashing its margin. X already runs that math.
The play isn't ad revenue. It's owning the layer where every other platform's talent eventually realizes they're being taxed for distribution that's no longer worth 45%.
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@BMohammedl @teslaownersSV @X A day might come when there are hundreds or thousands of people on the moon and mars using starlink, this number could perhaps get to the millions like SpaceX is is aiming for. In this future, X will be a cross planetary platform, the everything app.
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honestly if u still don’t get what X is doing rn ur gonna figure it out in like 2 years when creators start leaving in waves. youtube takes 45% and tells u ''thanks for the content.'' @X is literally saying take everything and build ur audience here. the question isn’t who pays more rn. its who owns the layer every creator is gonna need later. @elonmusk isn’t playing next quarter’s game. hes playing the next 5 years. and thats the diff between someone building a platform and someone just running one.
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@BlueBayNetwork @elonmusk The plan Spacex has for starships fuel is like this: Rocket burn O2 and CH4 to produce CO2 and H20, the reverse can be done too for example on mars, moon or even earth where they use the suns energy to reverse the process: C02 and H20 form the fuel again O2 and CH4
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@BlueBayNetwork @elonmusk This way you have infinite fuel, fully reusable fuel. You just need the suns energy which our solar system has s plenty of. There is nothing fossil in this entire process. Thats why i said no fossil fuel involved
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.@elonmusk just crossed $800 billion — roughly 2.7% of the entire US GDP. The last person to hold that much of the American economy? John D. Rockefeller in 1913. It took a century for anyone to match him. Rockefeller had oil. Musk has the future.
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To many of us, at some point? More wealth just looks like flexing, not living or having a fully meaningful life. If wealth is your main goal? Okay…. It’s not mine and never has been. I’ve seen many places where you said you didn’t care about the money, so hard to tell what you’re truly thinking. I guess you don’t see it that way.
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@AmanJaiswal2k26 @elonmusk No African country , don’t they have d*cks 🤷🏽♂️
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@BlueBayNetwork @elonmusk Starship fuel is not fossil, its just cold liquid O2 and CH4
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Possible overheating of an electric safari vehicle in the Maasai Mara.
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@Ares155862 @allisx86 And why will i need to runs spreadsheets after an apocalypse? Unless there is some kind of satellite internet still working, i better use the fuel to light fires 😁
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