The following is a quotation from Elon Musk I thought worthwhile to share. I find the orientation found in the words, “what are we sure is true,” brings a more solid conscious grounding enhancing the experience of peace. May this help you find the same.
“I think it is important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [When reasoning by analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done or it is like what other people are doing — slight iterations on a theme.
First principles is kind of a physics way of looking at the world. You boil things down to the most fundamental truths and say, “What are we sure is true?” … and then reason up from there.
— Elon Musk
