Thinking about a problem from an inverse perspective can unlock new solutions and strategies.
The central mental model to help you become a chef with your thinking is arguing from first principles. It’s the practical starting point to being wrong less, and it means thinking from the bottom up, using basic building blocks of what you think is true to build sound (and sometimes new) conclusions.
First principles are the group of self-evident assumptions that make up the foundation on which your conclusions rest—the ingredients in a recipe or the mathematical axioms that underpin a formula.
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Is the act of deconstructing something to the fundamental parts that you know are true and building up from there.
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