If you are just deciding whether a restaurant is worth trying, it is unlikely to be imperative that you understand how your friend came up with the recommendation. But when it comes to whether you should take an experimental drug for your illness, then you probably want to dig deeper into the reasoning and proof of various recommendations to make the best decision. Most problems occur when it comes to a decision that is somewhere in between these two extremes. Given our human nature of laziness, unless the issue on hand is a matter of life and death, we tend to optimize our mental activities for efficiency rather than effectiveness
Twitter likes this topic a lot and every once in a while you will find people tweeting on this topic.
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What is First Principle Thinking though? And why is this such a hot topic?
A first principle is a foundational proposition or assumption that stands alone. We cannot deduce first principles from any other proposition or assumption. Think of it as an atom which cannot be broken down further. It can help you remove assumptions and other biases from your thinking process.
analyzing your way to conclusions
This means going through the logic flow, establishing how an argument goes from A to B to C and so on, before moving all the way to Z.
Ultimately, first principle thinking is really just breaking down a topic into subtopics and examining each in a logical way