Learning & Education
First Principles Thinking
Reason from first principles
The prompt
Help me reason about this topic from first principles. Strip away assumptions and conventions. What are the fundamental truths we can rely on? Build up from there to see if the common wisdom is actually correct or if there is a better approach hiding in plain sight.
How to use it
Copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity, and replace anything in brackets with your own details. The more context you add about your situation, the better the answer.
- first principles
- thinking
- analysis