The Empowered Learning Model Principles and Performance Lasting performance is always principle-centered. Imagine trying to make a light bulb without understanding the laws that govern electricity, or building an airplane without understanding the principles of aerodynamics. Until the underlying principles are honored consciously or unconsciously our performance suffers. Principles are those truths proven by human experience to be essential to success. They are the natural laws upon which high- performance is based.
Principles are timeless, universal, essential, and empowering.
Adhering to principles ensures that the results we obtain increase our ability to get better results in the future. This is the fundamental definition of effectiveness. The details of knowledge which are important will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom.