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Defining principles and rules from qualities is not always the best order. Sometimes, it is better to think about how an ideal person would act in specific situations, extrapolate this to a set of principles, and then distill a quality from those.

For example, if you’re a parent and you don’t like how you sometimes yell when your child ignores you, you might write: “When my child ignores me, I calmly walk over to them and have a chat about it.” What is the principle here? “I do not react to situations I do not like by yelling.” What is the quality? “I am patient.”

Once you have climbed from rule to principle to quality, you can work back down enumerating additional principles and rules to fully flesh out the quality.