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First Principle

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First principles is the principles we use to build understanding on top of them.

If we never learn to take something apart, test our assumptions about it and reconstruct it, we end up bound by what other people tell us, trapped in the ways things have always been done.

When the environment changes. we just continue as if things were the same, making costly mistakes along the way

There are two main techniques to establish first principles,

  • Socratic Questioning

    • metadata:
      • blog:: Socratic Questioning
      • tags:: Mental Models
      • date:: 7th of August 2020

    Socratic method

    1. Clarifying your thinking. Why do I think this, What exactly do I think?
    2. Challenging assumptions
    3. Looking for evidences
    4. Considering alternative perspectives (What might others think? How do I know I am correct?)
    5. Examining consequences and implications ( What are the consequences if I am wrong?)
    6. Questioning the original questions (Why did I think that? was I correct?)
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