Techniques for establishing first principles If we never learn to take something apart, test our assumptions about it, and reconstruct it, we end up … - Shane Parrish
" "Techniques for establishing first principles If we never learn to take something apart, test our assumptions about it, and reconstruct it, we end up bound by what other people tell us — trapped in the way things have always been done. When the environment changes, we just continue as if things were the same, making costly mistakes along the way.
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Another reason we tend to push back against change is that doing something different might lead to worse results. There is an asymmetry to change — we take negative results to heart more than positive ones. Worse results make us stand out for the wrong reasons. Why risk looking like an idiot when you can remain average? We’d rather be average than risk the possibility of landing somewhere below average.
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