Below are the 49th of the 100 analytical thinking models: the first principle of sexuality。
I. Why learn the first principle
There's a classic line in the godfather:
"a man who sees the essence of things in half a second, and a man who spends his life not seeing the essence of things, is destined to be a different fate."
How can we see the essence of things in the face of a complex world
The answer is to use the first principle to build a system capacity。
What is the system capacity
If i give you water and dirt, can you make apples
You might make a mud apple. It only has the shape of an apple, but you can't eat it. And apple trees make delicious apples, which is the system capacity of apple trees。
Almost all the results we see are the product of system capabilities。
In essence, dots are cross-sections of the line, the dots are cross-sections of the face and the dots of the body。
It's easier to see the bottom patterns of things if we're on a higher scale。
Ii. What is the first principle
The first principle of sexuality was first proposed by the ancient greek philosopher aristotle, who said:
"in the exploration of every system there is the principle of firstness, which is a basic proposition or hypothesis that cannot be omitted or deleted or violated."
The first principle refers to thinking and acting from the most basic principles and common sense to the root of the problem in order to seek insight into the nature of the law。
In other words, the first principle of sex is "do" and the specific method of doing it is "art"。
I said, "there is no way, and there is no way." "the masters of the arts shall not be able to do so."
And he said: "true, it is done." lo! The cleavage shall fail."
He said: "the art is only a small part, and the way is the essence of all things."
By understanding these words of the ancient forefathers, we can understand in greater depth the importance of the first principle。
Iii. How can the first principle be applied
The pace at which we learn is far from up to date。
He said, “i have a career, and know no. "and he shall remain in the land, and shall be lost."
It means that people's lives are limited and knowledge is unlimited. The pursuit of unlimited knowledge with a limited life is bound to be devastated。
In the age of the explosion of information, there is a proliferation of information that is messy and useless, and mobile phone applications are trying to distract us and constantly take up our time, leading to increasingly fragmented systems of knowledge。
That is why we need to learn to apply the principle of firstness correctly, to grasp the underlying logic behind knowledge, and to do so in one way or another。
The underlying logic behind knowledge is not easily changed, although what is on the surface of knowledge is constantly changing。
Back in ancient greece around 300 b. C., euclid deduced the entire euro-geometry on the basis of five rules of justice and five public titles, writing 13 volumes of geometry, including 465 titles and proofs, which are the world's early and fair mathematical works and a classic application of the first principle。
Justice is self-evident, because it is itself recognized as right. For example, in european geometry, if both lines are the same as the third line, then the two lines are the same。
The sun tzu law, 13 of china's ancient 2,500-year-old military doctrine, although it is only about 6000 words, has crossed the time and space limit and continues to play an important role。
Because the sun tzu act reveals the bottom lines of how things work, it is new and its basic principles and intellectual methods are widely applied in commercial competition, business management, sports competition, diplomatic negotiations and personal growth。
Elon mask applied the principle of first sex to the business world by creating a number of high-tech companies, including paypal, space exploration technology, spacex, tesla, and others. His dream was to enable humans to migrate to mars, hoping to send 1 million people to mars by 2050。
In fact, mask is not just thinking or saying that he is actually doing what he wants to do, moving on to his dream, starting from the beginning and moving back and forth, constantly reducing costs。
For example, the need for rockets to travel to mars has led spacex to study the production of rockets that can be recycled and reused repeatedly, significantly reducing the cost of space travel。
For example, because of the energy required to survive on mars, tesla is studying the construction of more efficient electric vehicles, dismantling the components of the cells and significantly reducing their manufacturing costs。
The examples given are some of the more powerful. Is it possible for us ordinary people to apply the principle of first sex
The answer is yes. What exactly should be done
In short, using the golden circle and data analysis thinking, it is the reason why, starting from the bottom logic and principles, it breaks past perceptions and creates a more bottom thinking model。
For example, to apply the principle of firstness to work is to “befit” the job requirements of one's thinking and cognitive abilities, providing valuable products or services。
When we're dealing with problems, let's not start with a rush to come up with solutions, but start with the question of "compatibility" and think about what the problem is; then think about "get" and find the logic to solve them; and finally, "get up" to improve the ability to solve them。
Toyota's eight-step approach to solving the problem is, first of all, to clarify the problem, which is the same as the essence of the objective thinking。
To apply the principle of first sex to life is to develop a habit of "starting at the end" and knowing what kind of person you want to be in the end, then to act with a greater sense of direction。
Applying the principle of first sex to learning, knowing that the essence of brain memory is the process of input, storage and output, in which output is the key to the consolidation of memory, by "teaching for learning" the input of output, the sharing of the knowledge that you have learned to others helps to improve the effectiveness of learning。
In the book of principles, the author, ray dario, used the first principle to sum up the five-step process of realizing human aspirations: first, to identify the goals, then to identify the problems, then to diagnose them, then to plan the programme, then to implement it with determination and progress。
In applying the first principle, we cannot rely on imagination alone, but on practice. In the course of repeated attempts, there has been an ongoing stocktaking exercise to identify the principles that are appropriate for one's first purpose, to raise its level of thinking and awareness and to optimize its decision-making and action。
Last words
An analytical thinking model is an abstract summary of the underlying logic of something, which is the first principle behind something. When you have enough analytical thinking models, it is easier to see the essence of things, and thus to solve the challenges of reality more with a face and a sense of wisdom。
Many people, lacking in in-depth thinking about the nature of the problem, do not know what they really want, and are living in the clouds, running along the waves, blindly following the wind, thus wasting much precious time。
Using the first principle, building a system capacity that belongs to itself, building a core algorithm that learns to see the essence of things, spends time in more valuable places, making life better。
