First-Principles Thinking
3. Learn to think independently
Entrepreneurship is very difficult to teach because original thinking is very difficult to teach. School is not set up to teach this—in fact, it generally rewards the opposite. So you have to cultivate it on your own.
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Entrepreneurship is very difficult to teach because original thinking is very difficult to teach. School is not set up to teach this—in fact, it generally rewards the opposite. So you have to cultivate it on your own.
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Sam Altman • How to Be Successful
To think differently, Ask Foundational Questions: Ask and answer questions that expose and vet underlying assumptions and logic.
What's the real problem you are trying to solve?
What's your hypothesis? Why?
What are your core assumptions? Why?
What evidence do you have?
What are your core options?
What alternatives exist?
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