[Music] he's the real life iron man the mind behind tesla spacex the boring company paypal and more he's known to work 20 hours a day 120 hours a week and has admitted to sleeping on the conference room table at tesla just so he can squeeze in a little more work time this man is elon musk he's worth 170.3 billion dollars at the time of writing this video and he's been quite vocal about his daily routine time to take notes we've got the breakdown for you right here from what his mornings look like to his workday to even his hobbies hey start implementing some of elon's methods and you may find you're on the path to becoming one of the richest let's start right at the beginning of the day for elon musk that starts at 7am musk makes sure that he will get six to six and a half hours of sleep each night through a bit of trial and error he found that this is the perfect amount of sleep for him and he prioritizes it he was quoted in a reddit ama as saying sleep is really great i find if i don't get enough sleep i'm quite grumpy i could drop below a certain threshold of sleep although i would be awake more hours i would get less done because my mental acuity would be affected after he's up and moving musk usually skips his breakfast he finds that this will save him a bit of time in the morning but this is not always the case when he does eat he makes sure it's a high protein meal like an omelet and he'll have it with a cup of coffee after that elon will take part in what he considers his most important daily routine a shower you heard that right one of the richest men on the planet's secret daily routine is to hop in the shower he claims that while he's hosing off that's when some of his best ideas come to him and believe it or not there's some science to back this up shelly h carson a researcher and psychologist at harvard university and author of your creative brain a book all about unlocking your imagination and productivity has stated taking a bit of time off from a problem is the best way for your brain to find the solution to it she goes on to say that by focusing on whatever problem is in front of you for too long you may develop inherent biases and that will keep you thinking in the same unproductive manner but doing a simple task like taking a shower and lathering up your hair can spark new parts of the brain and this in turn can jumpstart some free association in your mind before you know it you'll be more innovative more productive and more creative than before when you were a stinky sweaty mess and to think elon figured this one out on his own what a guy another morning routine for mr musk that is a bit more on the rarer side but does indeed happen is physical fitness although we do want to point out that when he appeared on joe rogan podcast he confessed to rogan i wouldn't exercise at all if i could sounds like he's not much of a fan but he does indeed get out and about musk will lift weights run and has been known to take part in taekwondo karate judo and brazilian jiu jitsu apparently he likes to dance too as evidenced by some of his uh shall we say unique dance moves that he has displayed at a tesla event closing out his morning elon will see his kids off to school and then drive over to either tesla or spacex usually in his tesla model x a 79 990 car moving on to the midday of this billionaire we find that he splits his time fairly evenly between his two largest companies spacex and tesla with tesla winning out ever so slightly in terms of weekly hours for musk 42 hours of his week are spent in tesla and 40 are at spacex and when he's at work oh boy you can bet he's giving it his full focus musk has stated he's not as good about his nutrition as he should be and many times he will scarf down his lunch during an afternoon meeting speaking of meetings musk hates them and honestly we don't blame him he has his time at work perfectly scheduled out and meetings they just get in the way of all the good stuff like the engineering of his cars making sure that they look and feel perfect and also making sure his factories are running as efficiently as possible musk hates meetings so much that he has even sent out a list of rules about them to his workers large meetings are banned unless they are absolutely necessary frequent meetings are a no-no as well and are only allowed if a matter is urgent any and everyone is allowed to walk out of a meeting at any time as soon as they realize they aren't needed musk doesn't want anyone to waste their time due to formalities finally there is a ban on acronyms or nonsense words for objects software or processes at tesla the idea here is that anyone should be able to talk to anyone else in any department and information shouldn't be stopped just because one department uses jargon that another isn't familiar with in total musk has claimed he works 120 hour work weeks but boy does it pay off on average per day elon will make 383 million dollars we're starting to feel like we aren't working hard enough how about you we feel like we have to say this though elon knows he works a bit much he has gone on record to say there were times when i didn't leave the factory for three or four days days when i didn't go outside this has really come at the expense of seeing my kids and seeing friends he's eased up recently and it's more common for him to do 80 to 90 hour work weeks but he also said this reduction is temporary here's what the end of the day itinerary is for elon he'll drive on home to his 50 000 boxable casita home it's a 400 square foot prefabricated and foldable home which can be pulled by a tesla model x luxury suv he confirmed this in a tweet he said my primary home is literally a fifty thousand dollar house in boca chica starbase that i rent from spacex once home he'll be sure to eat a huge dinner not necessarily the best way to calorie up but for elon it works many times business dinners are his main source of food some of his favorite delicacies french food and barbecue and diet coke he'll also sip on a whiskey or some wine every now and again his time at home is also spent with girlfriend grimes worth three million dollars and their child elon will also watch some of his favorite tv shows like silicon valley and black mirror but he also has stated he loves anime specifically death note he's an avid gamer with cyberpunk 2077 a game that brought in 563 million dollars in total sales revenue being one of his favorites but he has also tweeted that one and only one console game has stolen his heart and it was halo other than that elon will be sure to read there are claims that he will finish two books a day listen to podcasts and audiobooks and throw the occasional party we're not sure how big a party he'll manage in his 400 square foot home but we don't think that will stop him he once rented a castle in england where the guests played hide and seek if that's not a way to spend your 30th birthday we don't know what is it's lights out at 1am for mr musk and then he does it all again the next day inspired yet gonna try to up your productivity to match mr musk well hold on a second no need to try and push yourself to be just like elon this dude is really one in a million there are claims that his iq is as high as 155 to put that in perspective for you the average person typically will have an iq of 100 and in the united states the average is 98 only a very small percentage of people have an iq of 130 or higher so elon yeah the man is smart like super smart but get this musk has stated on joe rogan's podcast he doesn't believe people would like to be in his shoes and that's exhausting but again he's worth 170.3 billion dollars at the time of writing this we think it's worth it before we go we want to leave you with a routine of another billionaire that will leave you scratching your head in var comprad the former ceo of ikea who passed away in 2018 was worth 42.5 billion bucks and was known to drive a 22 000 volvo that was 15 years old would fly economy class and eat at average everyday restaurants huh seems like being a multi-billionaire doesn't mean you have to live like one thanks for watching our video we will see you next time right here on the richest you