The First Principles. What Created Elon Musk’s Realm of Superb Innovation

If you are into Elon Musk videos, you probably heard of “First Principles” before. I literally heard him saying that a hundred times. He says: “It all comes down to First Principles”.

So, what is First Principles, how Elon Musk uses it and how can it change the world starting from education, which is the main thing we need because the education system is like politics or religion, untouchable, which kills the main objective of education: critical thinking and creating same-type-of-people.

What is First Principles?

The concept of “first principles” can be traced back to ancient Greek philosophy, where it was used by thinkers such as Aristotle to refer to the basic axioms or postulates upon which all other knowledge and reasoning is built.

In more recent times, the term has been used by scientists and engineers to refer to a method of reasoning that starts from basic laws or axioms of a particular field, and uses deductive logic to build up a more complex understanding.

Elon Musk has popularized the use of first principles in the context of innovation and problem-solving, where it refers to breaking down a problem into its most fundamental elements and reasoning from there, rather than relying on…