Most people solve problems by copying others, which kills innovation. Learn to strip away assumptions and build from the truth to find better solutions.

First principles thinking is about boiling a problem down to its most fundamental, irreducible truths and reasoning up from there, rather than looking at what’s been done and making small tweaks to existing recipes.
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You probably think you’re a great problem solver, but most of us are actually just copying others. We reason by analogy, making small tweaks to existing recipes because it’s efficient. But if you want to innovate like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, you have to stop looking at what’s been done and start looking at what’s true. First principles thinking is about boiling a problem down to its most fundamental, irreducible truths—like the raw material cost of a rocket—and reasoning up from there. Today, I’m showing you how to strip away the "way it’s always been done" to find the secrets hidden in plain sight. Ready to see the layers you’ve been missing?