Elon Musk
b. 1971
Practices he describes publicly: reasoning from first principles about cost, and repeated testing where early failures are expected.
9 skills · 4 stages · first 2 lessons free · enrol ₹2,000/month for all
Domain skills
- Youth
Self-taught programming
Sold a video game he coded at age 12.
Train: Logical Reasoning - 2002
SpaceX
Priced rocket materials from raw inputs — his described first-principles method.
Train: First-Principles Thinking - 2006–08
Three failed launches
The fourth Falcon 1 launch reached orbit in 2008.
Train: Problem Solving - Method
Iterate by testing
Publicly tests prototypes expecting some to fail.
Train: Decision Making
Essential General Skills
Transferable skills mapped to this role.
Essential General Skills
Each skill includes a lesson, worked example, assessment, real-life task, and adaptive game. Two correct answers raise the challenge; one miss lowers it.
First-Principles Thinking
Break a problem down to what you know is true, then rebuild the answer — instead of copying how it's usually done.
- Ask 'what is this really made of?'
- List the basic facts.
- Question each assumption.
- Rebuild from the facts.
Explain to someone younger why ice floats, using only facts you can check.
- PhET Simulations ↗
Experiment with real physics and find the rule yourself.
Fermi Field
Adaptive rule: two correct in a row raises difficulty, one miss lowers it. Accuracy so far 0%.
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