![]() ![]() ![]() We get emotional, fear others’ judgment, or simply screw up our mental math thanks to the brain’s many inherent bugs and biases. Thinking like this might come relatively easily to a mind like Musk’s, but according to an absolute avalanche of psychological research, the rest of us often struggle to be as clear-headed. While others look around and see what other people are trying, or assume they can move the status quo only so much, Musk is a firm believer in what he calls “first principles thinking,” or focusing solely on the basic truths and constraints of whatever field he’s working in, and building up from there. It’s a skill he himself attributes to clear thinking. The guy is clearly able to achieve the near impossible when it comes to engineering and innovation. Would the world be more rational if we did as Musk recently suggested and taught kids about cognitive biases in school?īY JESSICA STILLMAN, CONTRIBUTOR, you think of Elon Musk’s many Twitter scandals, sometimes odd public utterances, and past tax bills, one thing is for sure.
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