Elon Musk 1

Africa

Words

1.buy into

Elon buys into the idea that his unusual tolerrance for risk may well have been inherited directly from his grandfather.

.释义： to accept that an idea is right and allow it to influence you:
例：I never bought into this idea that you have to be thin to be attractive.

例： After reading the book PEAK, I buys into the idea that deliberater practice is more important than IQ.

2.peg

Maye, like many mothers do, pegged her son as brilliant and precocious.

peg somebody/something as something
释义：to believe or say that someone has a particular type of character, or that a situation has particular qualities:
例：I’d had him pegged as a troublemaker.

造句：I pegged Eric as a man of strong willpower.

3.yearn for

As a youngester, Elon's constant yearning to correcting people's mistake and his abrasive manner put off other kids and and his feeling of isolation.

释义：literary to have a strong desire for something, especially something that is difficult or impossible to get
例：  long yearn for :Hannah yearned for a child.
yearn to be/do something:Phil had yearned to be a pilot from an early age.
口语中更用long for
In everyday English, people usually say long for something or long to do something rather than yearn:
She longed for another child.

4.ACE

He aced math exams well beyond his years.

1. American English informal to do very well in an examination, a piece of written work etc:
    I aced the History test
ace的原意是扑克里的A，一般都是最大的牌，可以引申为在某方面很厉害的人，比如 a soccer ace
或者网球里的ace球，再比如 hold the ace 在某一方面占尽天时地利人和

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Thoughts

今天的内容讲述的是Elon的成长环境，这对一个人的未来有着非常关键的作用。Elon的冒险精神，好奇心，专注力在他年少的时候就展现了出来。他经常沉浸在自己的世界里，小伙伴们跟他说话都不知道，以至于妈妈以为他的身体是不是有异常。

他还很喜欢看书，泡在书里几天几夜都没问题，畅游在自己的世界里。

At five and six, he had found a way to block out the world and dedicate all of his concentration to a single task.

会提问题也是非常重要的能力，在《跃迁》一书里，古典老师说会提问是构建自己知识体现的关键步骤，因为好的问题往往能找到事物的本质，而且自己去寻找答案不仅印象深刻，而且是在实际运用这个知识点。

He points out that one of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask,'Musk said. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.