There's a phrase that you're going to hear both Brett and I use over and over again,

and that phrase is good explanations. Good explanations is Deutsche's improvement upon the scientific method.

At the same time, it's beyond science. It's not just true in science, but in all of life,

we navigate our way through life and we do it successfully by creating good explanations.

If you take away nothing else, try and understand what a good explanation is.

A good explanation first and foremost is testifiable slash falsifiable. You can run some

experiment in the real world to see if it's true or not. Stepping back from that, it's a creative

explanation. It looks at something that's going on in the real world and says, this is why it's happening.

It is a creative leap that says, this is the underlying explanation for how the thing works.

For example, when I talk to my young kids and we're out watching the sunset, I keep telling them,

is the sun setting? Is the sun going somewhere? Is the sun moving? Or is it maybe we're moving?

And we're moving in such a way that it looks like the sun is setting, which is the proper explanation.

Because looking at it naively, you would think the sun is hurtling across the sky and there

goes the sun again going around the earth. But that may not be the only explanation. There is a

completely creative explanation that seems to fly in the face of the obvious observation of the

sun's movement, but could also fit the facts. But it requires some creativity and that creative

explanations that the earth is rotating. Good explanations don't have to be obvious. They're not

derived from just looking at what happened in the past, but they are testable. They're experiments

we can run to figure out, is it the sun that is growing around the earth or is it the earth turning?

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