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First Principle Vs. Analog Thinking

  • First principles thinking: actively questioning every assumption you think you know about a given problem or scenario  and then creating new knowledge and solutions from scratch.
  • Reasoning by analogy: building knowledge and solving problems based on prior assumptions, beliefs and widely held ‘best practices’ approved by majority of people.

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Elon Musk's 3 Steps Principle Thinking

Elon Musk's 3 Steps Principle Thinking

  1. Identify and define your current assumptions: When next you’re faced with a familiar problem or challenge, write down your current assumptions about them.
  2. Breakdown the problem into its fundamental principles: These fundamental principles are basic...

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Elon Musk

"It is important to view knowledge as sort of semantic tree

Make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

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Mortimer Adler

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”

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First Principles Thinking In Action

Assumption: “I just can’t find enough time to workout and achieve my weight loss goals.”

First principles thinking:

  • What do you really need to reach your weight loss goal? I need to exercise more, preferably 5 days a week for an hour ...

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Elon Musk

"Well, I do think there’s a good framework for thinking. It is physics. You know, the sort of first principles reasoning

(...) What I mean by that is, boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy.

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