How to Think Better about Anything [w/ Naval Ravikant & Elon Musk]

✅ Naval Ravikant
Naval is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList.

✅ Elon Musk
Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and Boring Company.

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"As a first-principles thinker with no fear of speaking his truth, Naval’s thoughts are often unique and thought-provoking. His instinct for seeing through life’s veneer has changed how I see the world."
- Eric Jorgenson

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."
- Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain.


📝📝📝📝📝 Notes 📝📝📝📝📝

--- Naval Ravikant ---

- Memorization is a mistake.
• To live congruently with reality...
• * You need to understand what you do and why you do it.
(Strive to Understand, rather than memorize)

- Better to master the Basics, than to know the more advanced concepts.
• Knowing Calculus won't help you.
• Mastering Arithmetics will help you at anything.


- This Applies to all reasoning...
• Solid Foundation of Understanding (mastering the basics) beats memorization of advanced concepts.

- Memorization is an indication of not Understanding.

- You truly *know* something When you can derive it from a basic fundamental level.


--- Elon Musk ---

- First Principles Analysis (Elon's thinking process)
• It can be applied to anything
• The idea is to boil *everything* down to its most fundamental principles (things we are most confident to be True)
** From this base, you reason up.
** Conclusions are checked against this base.


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* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54OSbbtXrdI&ab_channel=LexClips

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44&t=6267s&ab_channel=PowerfulJRE


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0:00 - Naval Ravikant
3:45 - Elon Musk
7:25 - Reflections