“When arguing from first principles, you are deliberately starting from scratch. First principles are the group of self-evident assumptions that make up the foundation on which your conclusions rest-the ingredients in a recipe or the mathematical axioms that underpin a formula.” It’s the practical starting point to being wrong less, and it means thinking from the bottom up, using basic building blocks of what you think is true to build sound (and sometimes new) conclusions. “The central mental model to help you become a chef with your thinking is arguing from first principles. Being Wrong LessĬarl Jacobi once said, “Invert, always invert.” What Jacobi meant by that, was thinking about a problem from an inverse perspective can unlock new solutions and strategies. “When you don’t use mental models, strategic thinking is like using addition when multiplication is available to you.”.Super Thinking is about the frameworks and shortcuts top performers rely on the cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones.
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