Starting principles: How to find your principles
www.julian.com/blog/starting-principles
What Jamie wrote
An approach to taking life advice and learnings, and putting them in a framework that is actionable, using principles.
The most profound realization I had from this exercise is that adding a new Starting Principle refines your identity. Consider the implications: these principles become your intuitions for what the right thing to do is. They influence how you treat others. What you work on. What you value.
And, therefore, they determine who you become.
I kept waiting for a reference to Ray Dalio's popular book Principles (it is even on principles.com!) but no. The concepts are similar, and the names are the same. The main difference is the filter of only having six principles and filtering down so that you can hold them in your memory.