Productivity Recipes by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Elon Mask

Time Edition collected Tips from three successful IT entrepreneurs - Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Elon Mask - how they improve their working efficiency.

Mark Zuckerberg - standardization

According to Zuckerberg, he deliberately chooses uniform t-shirts and jeans in order to reduce the time for the daily selection of clothes. According to Time, the entrepreneur uses this strategy for all aspects of his life that are not related to his main activity.

For example, the founder of Facebook prefers to get to the office on a modest black Acura - Zuckerberg has not changed the car for several years, because he does not want to spend too much time adapting to it.

The entrepreneur followed the same strategy when purchasing the territory surrounding his house - the entrepreneur seeks to ensure that nothing distracts him from his work.

I feel that I can’t do my job if I spend energy and strength on stupid and unnecessary things in life, and not devoting myself to creating new products and services.

- Mark Zuckerberg

Bill Gates - Three Monitors

Most of the time at the computer Gates spends working with the mail. According to the founder of Microsoft, being the head of an IT company, he received more 100 emails per day.

To increase the efficiency of working with email, Gates uses three monitors. A list of e-mail messages is displayed on the left, on the average, one of the letters with which it works, on the right, an Internet browser window.

This arrangement helps Gates to perform several tasks at the same time, while not losing concentration. So, when new messages arrive on the left screen, the founder of Microsoft does not forget about the open task on the central monitor. At the same time he can get additional reference information on the right monitor.

In addition, the founder of Microsoft annually organizes a "week of thought." An entrepreneur retires in a forest hut, gets rid of all external sources of irritation and spends a week reading books and thinking.

During such periods, Gates usually thinks about a business development strategy, studies companies and organizations that work with him.

Elon Musk - coffee and six and a half hours of sleep

44-year-old entrepreneur occupies three responsible positions at once - runs SpaceX, Tesla Motors and is the chairman of the board of SolarCity. At the same time, Elon Musk has five children.

According to Mask, he observes the regime - he sleeps every day for no more than six and a half hours. As the writer Max Chafkin notes, during the day Musk consumes a lot of coffee.

In addition, the entrepreneur has learned to combine tasks - for example, he can send mail while he is scanning invoices for payment, or hold meetings and at the same time give instructions via a smartphone at another enterprise. In one of the interviews, Musk said that he could even exchange messages with his children, without being distracted from the main work.

The founder of Tesla spends no more than 15 hours per day in the office, but does not stop working even outside of it.

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