First Principles Thinking – irrefutable truth?

Every once in awhile, the Universe offers you a clue that something you came up with on your own is actually something rare, and valuable.

Yesterday’s email included the daily dose of Hugh McLeod at Gaping Void Art.

It was a link in Hugh’s daily message that led to the screen shot coming up…

In the center of the screen shot below is the word-for-word phrase i use to tell others what’s different about my Disney Approach.

Deconstruct then reconstruct.

 

i’ve spent my life deconstructing Disney’s DNA and reconstructing it in brilliantly simplistic fashion.

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This is the way i describe what 30 years at Disney, especially the last 15 teaching at Disney Institute has allowed me to make my life’s work.

 

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First principles thinking is about deconstructing what looks complex and then reconstructing it in a simple breakdown of reality – let’s call it irrefutable truth.

Click on the hyperlink in the previous sentence to read more about the concept Aristotle is credited with inventing and Elon Musk is credited for famously applying.

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It is done

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Word Press monthly post count

 

Word Press monthly post count
Word Press monthly post count

 

It is done.

Finally.

Over the weekend, went back in and re-wrote 200+- blog posts to fill in the calendar count gaps on the five main Mid Life Celebration websites.

Why was there a gap?

When i began blogging in 2008 – and particularly when i began writing five daily, differently-themed posts in April 2009 – Disney and Disney Institute didn’t have a social media policy.

The word on the street was, “Use good judgment”.

Never knowing i’d be blogging past the 100-day self-imposed writer’s bootcamp, i found myself with thousands of posts a few years later.

Eventually, we had an ambiguous (in my opinion) social media policy.

What if a leader subjectively said i crossed a line?

i rewrote many posts and some were too challenging to rewrite so i simply deleted them – roughly 200 posts gone, permanently.

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Happy birthday Mickey Mouse

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Found this on a Google Search for Disney Institute.

 

It all started with a Mouse.  – Walt Disney

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Walt Disney World is Home Sweet Home

Future Disney Cast entrance north
Future Disney Cast entrance – North side of Walt Disney World Property.

 

Future Disney Cast entrance north
This will be a HUGE improvement that wasn’t necessary from 1971 – 2011.

 

Future Disney Cast entrance north
These “i was there” shots are simply to “prove” i was there. Yesterday, in fact.

 

Future Disney Cast entrance north
This will potentially be a drag. There are very few stoplights behind Magic Kingdom. The road on the right is Floridian Way and the Grand Floridian Resort is 800 meters up on the left.

 

Walt Disney World is Home Sweet Home.

Took a short-cut through town yesterday afternoon to get to Interstate 4.

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Making Magic every day for 30+ years (some of it caught on film)

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No shortage of photos, most of them from my camera and in recent years, my iPhone.

 

Simplicity is difficult.

Which is why many things seem complicated.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Right?

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