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The impact of opportunity cost on personal and professional life
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of different choices
Understanding the concept of opportunity cost
Solving Difficult Problems
- Take moment and think of a problem bugging you and write all the reasons you think the problem is difficult to solve.
- With each of the reasons, self-verify by questioning yourself to see if it is valid or not.
- Keep asking yourself till you get to the root, the fundamental truth which cannot be denied.
- With a few runs, you will be able to test different solutions and find effective answers quickly.
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First Principles Thinking
We normally use existing methodologies and analogies to solve problems, which is essentially short-cut thinking.
Engaging in 'First Principles Thinking' makes us discard existing knowledge, and get down to the essentials, exploring on our own and questioning everything. ...
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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 d...
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"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."
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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4 Steps For First Principle Thinking
- Identify the problem you want to solve.
- List all the reasons you can't solve this problem.
- List all obvious solutions that apply but don't solve the problem adequately.
- Ask yourself: "If I could create a solution based on my desires, what ...
2. Don't be afraid of Problems
Problems are your friends, don't mind it tackle it with your whole power, whether it is sum problems or life problem. To understand the problem, make the view of What, How and Why. You can solve it easily if you got the above answers.
Suppose, if you have got the math problems, ask to y...
Solving different types of problems
Aristotle outlined distinct types of knowledge required to solve problems in three realms.
- Techne was craft knowledge: learning to use tools and methods to create something, such as a farmer designing an irrigation system.
- Episteme ...
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