Serialized thinking is a superpower. Any idiot can think the obvious sequence of thoughts in a situation. Takes a superidiot to add nonsequential complexity and analyze-paralyze themselves within. But if you can spot and follow an unexpected new sequence easily: superpower.
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So between Otto Lilienthal and the Wright Brothers, humans had to painfully work up the courage to break the “obvious” connection between flapping wings and flying.
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Musk’s first-principles heuristic is only one of many ways to break the connectionitis inherent to analogically reasoning, but there are many others. Boyd’s snowmobile approach is slightly more general.
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