If you were to ask Elon’s brother Kimbal, this complicated relationship with time has been present since childhood.Īs children, Kimbal Musk (who currently sits on Tesla’s board) would actually lie to his older brother about the time the school bus would arrive - knowing that Elon would show up late. I’m trying to recalibrate as much as possible.” I wouldn’t have cars or rockets if I wasn’t. In an interview he did with The Washington Post he said, “I think I do have, like, an issue with time… I’m a naturally optimistic person. And, time and time again, he has missed the deadline. Time and time again, Elon has set a date for the release of a new model or a production number. Yet, even he has an issue with underestimating how long a task may take. We are terrible at estimating how long tasks take.Įlon Musk is arguably one of the most brilliant minds alive today. After all, we can not and did not rely on to-do lists for many Jotform launches like HIPAA, Summer Camp or PDF Editor. This fascinating phenomenon, along with a handful of others (which I will discuss in more detail shortly), is what makes to-do lists so incredibly unproductive.Īt Jotform, we approach to-do lists with caution, too. In our race to the bottom of the list, we realize there is no bottom. While it sounds lovely in theory, once we set off on our to-do writing journey, we quickly discover a major problem. Nearly all of us have fallen victim to the to-do list at least once in our lives.Īfter all, the go-to piece of advice we’ve been told since grade school during feelings of overwhelm is, “Make a list and start crossing things off.” It’s a race to the bottom, except there is no bottom. He is consumed by the monster of his own creation. He turns, it envelopes him, then pulls him back into the deep dark depths of his office. Thankfully he is on the first floor so he essentially just steps into a large shrub scaring a small family of opossums.Īs he begins to sob hysterically, he hears the unraveling of the wretched to-do list drawing ever closer. Shortly into his battle, he makes a terrifying realization - the to-do list is like a regenerating monster right out of a terror flick - for each line he crosses off another three lines appear at the bottom. He loads himself up with enough caffeine to fuel an entire city and begins his slow tedious descent to the bottom, crossing each line off the to-do list one at a time. Moments later, he finds himself in hand-to-hand combat with a to-do list so long and so vast it resembles the spiraling tentacles of a giant squid. Three bullets turn into ten - ten bullets turn into twenty. Man is feeling overwhelmed, begins compiling a to-do list.
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