76K views · 1.1K reactions | Elon Musk is a big believer in First Principles Thinking. Not just Musk — Jeff Bezos, Albert Einstein, and Warren Buffett too. Here's how understanding this concept will make you an elite decision-maker. | Tom Bilyeu | Facebook

Elon Musk advocates reasoning from first principles, which involves identifying and building upon fundamental truths rather than relying on analogies. While reasoning by analogy offers convenient shortcuts and often works, it falls short when dealing with groundbreaking ideas, as it struggles to connect with the entirely new. Musk emphasizes that reasoning from first principles fosters deeper understanding and innovation, challenging conventional thinking and allowing for breakthroughs in unexpl

Elon Musk: I think it's also important to reason from first principles, rather than by analogy. So, the normal way that we conduct our lives as we reason by analogy. We're doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it's like what other people are doing; slight iterations on a theme. It's kind of mentally easier to reason by analogy rather than from first principles. First principles is kind of a physics way of looking at the world. What that really means is you boil things dow