Elon often mentionson on podcasrs, when talking engineering, that he has to keep reminding himself to think through problem solutions in "first principle" mode, accepting no previously derived relationships.  Most of us are not trying to optimize Mars rockets or implant Neuralinks, but our daily navigating through time, space, and culture is pretty goddamn complicated.  We might likely fare better if we relied less on the dead men's codified strategies, and used our own bio-neuralnet for some "first principle" life trajectory engineering.