Mastering Problem Solving: First Principles Thinking

Description

We face different problems in our personal and professional lives. When faced with a problem we usually try to look for patterns and solve them using solutions we or others have tried before. We therefore often end up with solutions that do not help. Sometimes they even worsen the problem.

First Principles Thinking is a great way of making big decisions that have a huge impact. It helps us separate the symptoms - what we see and feel, from the disease - what is really causing the problem. This helps us to come up with better solutions. It encourages creativity and innovation and yields results that are often game changing and transformational.

This course is designed to help you learn how you can use first principles thinking to transform the way you live and work. It looks at how people usually think? what is the problem with thinking this way? How you can think differently? How thinking differently will lead to better decisions. It provides a step by step guide to applying first principles thinking to decision making. Using easy to understand examples, frameworks and approaches, it makes understanding the concepts, and applying them extremely intuitive. It also illustrates how First Principles Thinking has been used to change the way things are done and create great impact - like reducing the cost of space travel by 90%!

Who this course is for:

• This course is for anyone who wants to get better at thinking and problem solving, irrespective of the nature of the problem