Elon Musk Quotes on Personal Growth

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

—  Elon Musk

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When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

—  Elon Musk

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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

—  Elon Musk

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