A TRICK to Using FIRST PRINCIPLES Thinking | Ozan Varol

"The trick with using First Principles becomes how do you use knowledge to inform what you’re doing, as opposed to constrain it?"

Law professor and best-selling author, Ozan Varol considers the difficulty of using the mental model of First Principles thinking and suggests a different approach to apply it in your life.

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[Jack-zrmx]

The difficulty, in 1st principles, is asking the right questions.

[getstarted]

Good nugget. Like the "cover band" analogy. First Principles = Writing your own Songs. Back to the drawing board everyone!

[MarcCools]

First principles thinking about this video: it's a podcast.

[dagma]

This guy just regurgitated what Elon Musk has been saying for years. Perhaps he should use first principles to come up with another example.

[enjoypolo]

It’s like epistemology but you gotta pick your battles or you won’t move forward

[notcooljustlame]

So it's just question everything but not to the point it immobilizes you?

[mandarkadav]

U can't use first principle in everywhere... Reason blocks lost trait when system built over the time

[angelsong]

Using knowledge to inform not constraining

[kierand]

So he just lifted Musk's first-principle thinking for SpaceX and tried to pass it off as his own?

Nice.

[telebiopic]

Even his examples are not original and yet here we are talking about first principles thinking 😂😂😂

[peterbarker]

... example????
( Exam Paul)
...demask's us...
..

[taitusituenuku]

So you simply ask why it didn't work and use that to make something else work.

[quentin]

How this guy has recited Elon Musk's decades-long exact thoughts for 4 minutes without mentioning his name is ironic