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Elon Musk's productivity hack is taking 2 or 3 days off a year, working 7 days a week, and getting 6 hours of sleep a night

Nidhi Pandurangi   

Elon Musk's productivity hack is taking 2 or 3 days off a year, working 7 days a week, and getting 6 hours of sleep a night
  • Elon Musk is a known workaholic, and he has the numbers to back that up.
  • He told CNBC's David Faber he works throughout the year except for "two or three" days.

Elon Musk is a workaholic, and he's got the numbers to back that up.

The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX told $4 that he pretty much works throughout the year.

In response to a question about whether Tesla and SpaceX employees need to come into the office every day, Musk said he works "seven days a week," but that he's "not expecting others to do that." Musk also said that he thinks working remotely is $4

"In terms of how many days in a year do I not put in some meaningful amount of work? It's probably about two or three," he told Faber.

He also said he gets about six hours of sleep a night.

"That's not bad, I thought it would be less," Faber said, to which, Musk responded: "I tried less. Even though I am awake more hours, I get less done. And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours."

Musk's obsession with working long hours has been extensively covered in the media.

$4, Musk told $4 he $4.

$4 that Musk had been working 120-hour weeks to keep the production of the Tesla Model 3 on track — to the extent $4.

$4 that he spent his birthday at the Tesla offices. "All night — no friends, nothing," he told the publication.

Musk did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent via Tesla outside regular business hours.



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