Tom Bilyeu

All right.

I actually want to spend more time in the intuitive, but is there anything from the paper, any sort of grounded mathematics that you think will, um, ground people in your theory more in a way that will keep the intuitive exploration from just spinning off into la la land?

If you made it this far in the interview, read the paper.

Right.

Yeah.

I mean, I hope anybody listening to this understands how the scientific method works.

I am constantly trying to tell my team, hey, you need to be fearless in the predictions that you make because you shouldn't hold yourself accountable to always being right.

You should hold yourself accountable to always learning and getting a little bit better.

So the fact that you're willing to make a precise prediction, your paper is full of mathematics and it's there for anybody to check.

So people will be able to help you find the edges, which is something I've heard you talk about and I really respect about you.

is that one you obviously approach everything with humility but two you actively want people to find the edges of your hypothesis your theory so that you know where it's wrong so that you can adjust and get more right which is far more interesting especially if you sincerely want to understand what's outside of that headset it's like well i would rather realize i'm wrong right and

find out how to get right so that I can actually begin to explore that possibility space versus think I'm right, but really I'm wrong and nobody ever helps me come to understand why.

I really like that and I hope everybody listening takes that on in their own life.

I think that that's really important.

Okay, so I wanted to make sure that you had a second to lay out the grounding there, that this is something that you're seeing in particle physics, that there really is a there there to pursue.

Because the intuitive space for somebody like me, who's not a mathematician, who while I use the scientific method in business, I definitely do not consider myself a scientist.

But

Pursuing the intuitive things, pursuing the thought experiments feels true to Einstein's encouragement to all of us lay people to focus more on imagination than knowledge, right?

To really understand how to begin to think through these things.

So one of his famous thought experiments was that in a falling elevator, you would feel like you were weightless.