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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.