Amazing instructional and inspirational piece, Mayo. Should be read by all "thinkers" and/or would be thinkers.

Pragmatically, certainly not easy to do in our fast paced -- "show me the money — what have you done for me lately" — culture. But the results are indisputable, especially in the arena of complex, seemingly unsolvable problems.

First Principles thinking is almost "Extra-Natural" because it goes against the "in tandem" flow of human nature movement from point A to Point B.