First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself by James Clear, author of
is one of the most effective strategies you can employ for
- breaking down complicated problems and
- generating original solutions.
to learn how to think for yourself.
example: rockets for SpaceX, and batteries for Tesla electric cars:
the cost of materials was much smaller than the cost of final components;
this means that if production process was re-organizes, it is possible to make them much cheaper.
Musk said in an interview.
What is a rocket made of? Aerospace-grade aluminum alloys, plus some titanium, copper, and carbon fiber. Then I asked, what is the value of those materials on the commodity market? It turned out that the materials cost of a rocket was around two percent of the typical price.”
Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle defined a first principle as
“the first basis from which a thing is known.”
First principles thinking is a fancy way of saying “think like a scientist.”
Scientists don’t assume anything. They start with questions like,
What are we absolutely sure is true? What has been proven?
with a method now called Cartesian Doubt in which he would
“systematically doubt everything he could possibly doubt
until he was left with what he saw as purely indubitable truths.”
First principle - Wikipedia
In philosophy and science, a first principle
is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced
from any other proposition or assumption.
In philosophy and science, a first principle
is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced
from any other proposition or assumption.
Scientific inquiry includes creating a hypothesis through inductive reasoning,
testing it through experiments and statistical analysis,
and adjusting or discarding the hypothesis based on the results.
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