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"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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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's 3 Steps Principle Thinking
- Identify and define your current assumptions: When next you’re faced with a familiar problem or challenge, write down your current assumptions about them.
- Breakdown the problem into its fundamental principles: These fundamental principles are basic...
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"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.
T...
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“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 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 ...
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"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, like 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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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
Leave out unnecessary details
When you understand a concept, you can find it’s all-to-easy to fall into the trap of thinking every detail is important.
Your immediate objective is to get the main points across to help others understand a difficult concept. Describing too many details to others unnec...
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