I'm not sure how 'even' is used in this sentence. Could you explain how it's used and give me some examples in other sentences?

Native speaker’s answer
Rebecca
Here, "even" is an adverb emphasising a surprising or extreme point! He's saying the surprising point here is that although Elon Musk is good at coming up with great ideas, more than anyone else, when you remove him from the group of people that have good ideas, it's still true that people have more than 20 great ideas in their lifetime. The emphasis changes depending on where you place "even" in a sentence. Usually, you put it at the beginning of a sentence to emphasise the subject or for a conditional, or you put it before the verb. Ex: Even I didn't know you left the country. => emphasis on the subject = I didn't even know you left the country. => emphasis on the verb Ex: She didn't even notice me at the party. Ex: Even if you paint the whole wall white, you'll still see the red paint beneath it. Ex: Shaun even said that you're bad at singing, and you still did the competition. = Even Shaun said that you're bad at singing, and you still did the competition.