Eric Jorgensen

They didn't have to do this.

They

But they just found the mission so intriguing that they were willing to do it.

And what I hope this book does is inspires people to do incredible things, not because your boss is making you and not because it's part of your goal in your nine to five, but because how fucking tragic if all you do in your life is sit and wait for a paycheck for something you're not even obsessed with.

What a fucking tragedy.

And sort of like be around greatness as measured by somebody who tries to stretch human capacity to his absolute limit, I find fascinating.

And I think it should be studied because you don't have to do it forever.

You can quote unquote go out and enjoy life, but also life is to be found in the enjoyment of building too.

Like what would Elon say about like work-life balance?

Yeah.

Can you be taught to become hardcore and work harder?

You want to stretch your capacity and become harder working, more hardcore.

From what you've learned from Elon, what would be the formula?

What would you do?

It's so true.

And also, like, I do think the more hard things you do, the more hard things you can do and the less everything seems hard.

You know, it's fascinating because you can tell that we hire a lot of employees.

If let's say we got 100 employees right now, I can almost tell who's going to find things harder.

by what their history is.

So if they were a Green Beret or a nuclear sub operator or investment banking or worked at McKinsey on their acquisitions team, I just know they're going to be able to handle a lot.