To solve any problem, break it down to core mechanisms. Want to get strong? Eat, sleep well, go to the gym, repeat. That's it. Strip away everything else and you're left with what actually matters.
It's kind of like first principles thinking, which Elon and I think Bezos and a few other CEOs talk about, where you have to take the key concepts and boil them down to their core. That's effectively what we're doing with mechanisms. So if we think about something like getting strong and buff, I want to get strong and buff. What are the key mechanisms to do this? Okay, well, you need to eat, you need to sleep well, you need to gym, and you need to repeat. So, I know that's a meme, but that quite literally would be the 4 mechanisms for that. If someone came to me and said, I want to get strong and get buff, these are the 4 things that you need to do as a category.
