Principlev1

Ask 'If we were starting from scratch today, would we build

Ask 'If we were starting from scratch today, would we build it this way?' to simulate the perspective of someone without your accumulated assumptions.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Expertise Transforms Perceptual Chunking (expert chunk perception), Schemas as Knowledge Organization Structures (schemas organize knowledge), and Expertise as Domain-Specific Schema Organization (expertise is accumulated schemas). The principle prescribes the inversion question to destabilize rigid schemas—it's Dane's prescription for circumventing cognitive entrenchment.

Source Lessons

L-0087

Beginner mind as a practice

Approaching familiar situations as if seeing them for the first time reveals hidden details.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomExpertise Transforms Perceptual Chunking AxiomSchemas as Knowledge Organization Structures AxiomExpertise as Domain-Specific Schema Organization

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