#20 | First Principles Thinking Explaind | The Secret Mental Model Billionaire Steve Jobs Used To Build The IPhone and Revolutionize Industries

What if most of the problems people call “impossible” aren’t because they’re unsolvable, but because everyone is asking the wrong questions?

What if the entrepreneurs creating rockets, curing diseases, and building trillion‑dollar industries aren’t smarter—they just know how to start from zero and rethink everything?

In this episode of How Billionaires Think, we dig into the game‑changing mental model of First Principles Thinking.

While most people optimize existing systems, reduce costs marginally, or follow “best practices,” the real breakthroughs come when you deconstruct a problem to its core truths, and rebuild from there.

From Elon Musk launching rockets at 10% of NASA’s cost to James Dyson developing 5,127 prototypes before reinventing the vacuum cleaner, you’ll see why starting fresh is the key to game‑changing results.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why adjusting what already exists often locks you into someone else’s game—and how first principles unlock a whole new playing field
• The exact two‑step framework to break your biggest challenge into fundamental truths (deconstruction), then rebuild a solution from the ground up (reconstruction)
• Real‑world stories of how innovators ignored the “this is how it’s done” rules—so you can learn how to question assumptions in your business, your offers, your life

Are you ready to stop being stuck optimizing someone else’s path and start building your own?

Press Play now, and take your biggest challenge today through a first principles audit. Deconstruct it. Rebuild from zero. Change your game.

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