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Evan Y.

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Using The First Principles Thinking

The First Principles Thinking can be applied in our daily life:

  • Starting a business requires first principles thinking to build a fundamentally better product or service.
  • On a busy day, first principles thinking makes us do what's essential while not being bogged down with time constraints.
  • Applying the first principles toward good health will make us feel considerably better than obeying some diet or exercise routine that we hate.

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Use First Principles Thinking to Solve Impossible Problems

Use First Principles Thinking to Solve Impossible Problems

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The gist: If you want to solve hard problems in unique ways, "first principles thinking" is the strategy that works for the world's most creative people. "If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes."
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First principles thinking, which is sometimes called reasoning from first principles, is one of the most effective strategies you can employ for breaking down complicated problems and generating original solutions. It also might be the single best approach to learn how to think for yourself.
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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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Physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. So I said, okay, let’s look at the first principles. What is a rocket made of? Aerospace-grade aluminum alloys, plus some titanium, copper, and carbon fiber. Then I asked, what is the value of those materials on the commodity market? It turned out that the materials cost of a rocket was around two percent of the typical price.

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Breaking down complicated problems into basic elements and then reassemble them from the ground up.

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...is a foundational proposition or assumption that stands alone. We cannot deduce first principles from any other proposition or assumption.

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