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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Disney Keynote Speakers
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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If you can’t explain it simply…

simplicity
Hugh McLeod from GapingVoid Art is my favorite cartoonist.

 

 

Simplicity
The point is made with the cartoon. Hugh’s daily email features a piece of art (first photo) and then a business insight (second photo). No need to read the fine print after Einstein’s quote.

 

We’re born. We live a life. We die.

Simple.

Except for the living part.

Live like you mean.

The only thing that complicates the living is how long we get to do it.

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Why is simplicity so compellingly attractive?

Placing postage stamps upside down
The tradition (now a habit) of placing postage stamps upside down started in 1996. It was a way to say “i love you” to my dying Grandmother.

 

Why is it so challenging to simplify our life?

Simplify.

Simplicity.

Simple.

Doesn’t the very goal word personify simplicity.

How can simplifying be complex, difficult?

Why do so many people, and so many organizations, and so many countries struggle with this?

Why is simplicity so compellingly attractive?

Why is it so difficult?

 

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It’s this simple

Foggy Country road
Yesterday, Christmas morning, the first photo from a 10-mile run.

 

Commitment isn’t when you feel like it.

It’s all day, every day.

Attitude.

Yours.

Go.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since. This website is about our mental attitude.

 

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Lunch at MOMS

Melts on Main Street Winter Garden
We both had the Fancy Pig at MOMS; “Melts On Main Street”.

 

Melts on Main Street Winter Garden
Main Street Winter Garden, near Plant Street.

 

Melts on Main Street Winter Garden
Last night was the annual Christmas Tree lighting on Plant Street.We sat outside, middle left are two sidewalk tables.

 

Lunch in a small town, on a breezy and sunny Florida afternoon. We ate. We talked. i just wanted to personally have some face to face time to say how grateful i am for her support. Joyce has done Mid Life Celebration, LLC’s taxes for four of it’s six years. And it took six years to make the first dime, and it took seven to make a profit.

Not many last seven years to see this finally happen.

On a side note, it will take two more years to pay off the debt incurred.

 

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