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First principles thinking

Breaking a problem down to its bedrock assumptions rather than working from conventional solutions or how things are 'normally done'—you ask what must be true, strip away borrowed thinking, and rebuild from ground level. It's especially powerful when conventional approaches have stopped working and you need to think sideways.

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