Think Like A Rocket Scientist

If you don’t recognize the flaws in your own thinking, sooner or later those flaws will come to haunt you.

Scientific thinking can greatly improve how we perceive, analyze, and act in this uncertain, chaotic, and complex world.

I love to improve my thinking. Because the better I think, the wiser I will be. The wiser I am, the better my decisions will be. And the better my decisions, the better the results I get. And the better the results, ultimately the wealthier, influential, and happier I become.

This book is about scientific thinking, mental models, and strategies for making the right analysis and inferences in the face of challenging situations—like facing uncertainty, moonshot projects, or big failures—in order to make better decisions and ultimately increasing our odds of success.

Strategies like developing redundancies in our systems to avoid the single point of failure in face of uncertainty; reasoning from first-principle by conducting root cause analysis when there is no known solution; Moonshot thinking and conducting thought experiments; Reframing questions before we dive into problem-solving; try to prove ourselves wrong when coming up with ideas; avoiding complacency after accomplishing an objective; failing intelligently, and conducting backcasting and pre and postmortem analysis; and many more

Learned so much. The wisest book that I’ve ever read.