![]() The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there. ![]() ![]() You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. I basically load my head full of mental models.ĭon’t just follow the trend. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. You should think multidisciplinary, the way of the greatest in history: Mental models are the most important ideas of each science: philosophy, mathematics, physics, statistics, engineering, chemistry, biology, psychology, economics and history. The world is complex and interconnected, and we need to understand the big ideas from big disciplines, in order to have a whole map of the reality to be able to make better decisions.Ĭritical thinking has to be based on going to the fundamental ideas, to the mental models. ![]()
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