Principles

Core Principles

These are some foundational principles that I try to keep in mind in all walks of life:

1. Extreme ownership: Take complete ownership of your domain. You, and only you, are responsible for the outcomes in your life. That said, you should…
2. Focus on process over outcomes: Prioritise the process and let the results follow. As Naval Ravikant says, “Impatience with action, patience with results.” You don’t control the outcome, but you do control the input, so focus on that part that you can control, and if you do that for long enough, the results will inevitably follow.
3. Master the fundamentals: In any domain there are the fundamental building blocks that you can master. A musician learns their scales. A basketball player focuses on strength, conditioning, footwork, passing and dribbling. A writer learns grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, writing a good opening sentence. Whatever field you’re in, these fundamentals exist, and you should be fluent in them, and practice daily.
4. Continuous improvement: Every day is a chance to get very slightly better than you were yesterday. If you can do that regularly, then on a long enough time horizon, you can’t help but become excellent at what you do.