Elon Musk, Mobile Minorities, and How to Overcome Fear

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. Talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales. You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.
I just saw, if you go to Brett Taylor, the chairman of Twitter, he just tweeted, we've agreed to a deal with Elon Musk.

**Shaan Puri** (1:15)
Oh, wow. Yeah.

**Sam Parr** (1:16)
So I guess, I think saying it's done is fair.

**Shaan Puri** (1:20)
Yeah, that's fair. So $54 a share.

**Sam Parr** (1:27)
So let me tell you something really quick.
This is gonna sound weird, but it relates to what we're talking about. So do you know how a combustible engine works?

**Shaan Puri** (1:39)
Do I look like I know how a combustible engine works? No.

**Sam Parr** (1:42)
So, all right, here's how a combustible engine works. So you've got this huge block. It's called an engine block. It's this big piece of metal. Imagine like a rectangular cube that's about two and a half feet long, a foot wide and a foot deep in depth.
Understand?
Okay. When you hear like a four cylinder, six cylinder, eight cylinders, 12 cylinders, that's how many cylinders they're gonna drill into that block of that engine block. And so they, you know how big a cylinder is?

**Shaan Puri** (2:09)
Well, I've eaten Pringles before, so I could sort of imagine.

**Sam Parr** (2:13)
You're not far off. So it's around like, it's like a can of Coke almost, a little bit bigger, but like just for the sake, we'll say it's like the size of a can of Coke. Okay. And in those cylinders goes a piston, which is basically like you've drilled those holes and like you've got something like, it's almost like a size of a can of Coke going back and forth through those holes.
And the way it works is you have a shaft that connects to the pistons, which turns that up and down motion of the cylinders going up and down into motion that the engine can use. But check this out. In order to make this all work, you have this thing called a spark plug in each cylinder. And then you have this other device called a carburetor, and that mixes the perfect amount of fuel and air into the cylinder. And the spark plug makes a small spark and there's a miniature explosion in the cylinder that creates so much pressure that that piston is moving up and down.
Does that all make sense?

**Shaan Puri** (3:08)
Okay, I follow. I don't know why you're telling me about this, but I understand it now.

**Sam Parr** (3:11)
Listen, so it gets even crazier. You know how you're driving and your car will say like 6,000 RPMs?

**Shaan Puri** (3:21)
Yeah, sure.

**Sam Parr** (3:22)
That means that those pistons, so these pistons, it has to be airtight for that explosion to be in that cylinder. So these pistons, they're super tight into that cylinder and it's creating a lot of friction. When it says 6,000 RPMs, that's 6,000 revolutions per minute. And 6,000 means you're like driving pretty fast, but not crazy fast. That means those pistons are moving up and down 100 to 150 times per second.
And you have oil in your car because those pistons are rubbing against metal and it needs oil. Otherwise, if you leave it without oil, they're moving so fast, it's gonna fuse together and basically weld the piston to the cylinder.