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Become A First Principles Thinker
Write down and organize information. Create hierarchies and mind maps.
Most ideas are nested outside or inside one another. You have to learn to map out how these ideas are linked.
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First Principles
Not A New Idea
For example, Aristotle believed that you could not possess true knowledge without first understanding the first principles. He thought that everything could be divided into categories and sub-categories (the smallest of them being the equivalent for first principles).
Reason And Experience
An empiricist is a person that believed all true knowledge is based and obtained through experience.
The process of seeking knowledge through experience and making use of reason to give it structure it how we can find the first principles of a subject.
Conventional and unconventional thinkers
- Conventional thinkers: their knowledge consists of proof that is on display.
- Unconventional thinkers: they use experience and reason to organize their knowledge; they ask questions and make analogies to get to the roots of am idea.
The Art Of First Principles Thinking
If every part is remarkable, then the total is remarkable.
Benefits of First Principles Thinking
- Innovation: once you understand the fundamentals of an idea, you can change and rearrange them to create new ideas and products.
- Optimization: a fundamental component could be changed, to improve and idea or product.
- Integration: once you understand a foundational component of an idea, it becomes a lot easier to integrate new knowledge into your understanding.
- Transfer: understanding first principles makes it easier to transfer complex ideas to other people.
Become A First Principles Thinker
Write down and organize information. Create hierarchies and mind maps.
Most ideas are nested outside or inside one another. You have to learn to map out how these ideas are linked.
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