# **THE FIRST PRINCIPLES FRAMEWORK FOR LIFE, BUSINESS, AND SELF-MASTERY** This is a structure that doesn’t just help you _think_— it **shapes how you perceive reality**, how you interpret events, how you make decisions, and how you build systems that scale. This is fundamentally deeper than FOS, anti-fragility, or strategy. It is the **ground layer of all reasoning**. There are _three_ possible directions for “Deeper First Principles.” --- # **OPTION A — [[1. First Principles of Reality]]** (Philosophical & ontological foundation) Here we explore: - What is fundamentally true independent of beliefs? - What cannot be reduced any further? - What is the structure beneath logic, meaning, agency, consciousness? - What is the “substrate” as Aristotle, Heidegger, and modern physics describe? This answers: **“What is the nature of reality and truth?”** --- # **OPTION B — [[2. First Principles of the Self (Identity & Agency)]]** (Psychological & existential foundation) Here we explore: - What is the “self” stripped of titles and roles? - What is agency at the most fundamental level? - How do identity, desire, intuition, emotion, and reason emerge from first principles? - What determines authentic vs inauthentic action? - How do you operate from the deepest possible layer of intention? This answers: **“Who am I really, and how should I act?”** --- # **OPTION C — [[3. First Principles of Building (Strategy & Creation)]]** (Founding, scaling, leverage, decision-making) Here we explore: - What cannot be reduced about business? - What is the essence of value creation? - What is the physics of leverage? - How does a founder scale from 1 → 100 → 1000? - What are the absolute fundamentals beneath markets, systems, and execution? This answers: **“What makes a business unbreakably strong at its core?”** ---