The Most Powerful Way to Think | First Principles

First principle thinking can also be applied to art. Most people view art as "Wow! Look at how complex that is! I'll never draw anything like that". But really, art is built out of fundamental shapes. Artists start drawing by drafting shapes and add more and more detail to make something outstanding. Anyone can become great artists, but you need that first principle thinking.

If you memorize how to draw and paint a Mona Lisa, you only produce a Mona Lisa.
If you understand that Mona Lisa is made out of basic shapes, you produce endless possibilities.

It's best to take the apple seed instead of the apple.

By far the best video I have ever watched on the topic

It's definitely useful, but I don't find it unconventional. I would also be careful in saying it's the most powerful.

I love that you are explaining first principles thinking using an analogy.

Any financial modelers out there? First principles baby

Everybody in the comment section wants to feel heard… why comment such irrelevant things??? Keep it to yourself, everybody’s special.

Thinking fast is about not getting lost in too much

What is the opposite of First Principles?

Brain cocaine😂

why did you skip dangers of first principles thinking?

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It's difficult to find fish. I sometimes come across a turtle but fish I mostly find on the internet.

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Thank you for educating a population of mostly fools how to exert power to shape the world; I'm sure that will be good for humanity.

"Perfection is a lot of little things done well." - Chef Marco Pierre White

Thinking back to a long conversation I had with a woman at a graduation party I attended last weekend. I realize now that I am the guy with the facts and she was the first principles thinker.

So what is the First Principals, of "First Principal Thinking" think about that and then explain it to truly explain First Principals!

For all first principle thinkers out there, I know many of you will want to understand humanity to their roots. You can use the Enneagram to seek those roots.

Analysis is only half of the picture, assuming things are reducible to discrete parts. What if the parts are continuous and we impose articicially clear cut lines of demarcations. E.g. the rainbow is continuous but our brains see distinct colors. The other half of the picture is synthesis which acknowleges that in complex systems, the sum can be greater than the parts (emergent properties).

Such a poor and shallow example of first principle of an essay. An essay is a collection of letters, but there can be another collection of same letters which is totally non sense. Language is part of an essay's building block but the other part is the thought behind the essay and what it is trying to explain. That is when you dont think on first principles and just make videos for the sake of it.

Great video.
Unsure about the breakdown of an essay into paragraphs, sentences, words, letters as a first principles thinking example.
For linguistic purposes, perhaps.
Aren’t words, parts of sentences, sentences, groups of sentences (eg formatted into paragraphs) mere vehicles for the thoughts/ideas/facts/bits of logic contained in the essay? Should I not be looking at the content, ie what is being carried by/conveyed with the help of those words, and divide that up until I get to first principles?
Dividing up the text first, sure, for the purpose of getting to the structure of the content, which then helps understand the content, which I then really need to apply first principles thinking on.