Principle vs skills:

There are thousands of books that talks about attitude, self-discipline, time management skills and techniques to grow in life. These books are designed to help you in that part of life, where you think you need better techniques or skill to get success. For example, if you are a student and you think that you need to improve your communication skills and you can pick a book written on communication and learn some skills to improve. If you are in sells and want to develop your selling skills, you can pick a book on selling skills.  But the missing thing, in this ocean of self-help book is that there are thousands of books and thousands of techniques, but nowhere you will get a fundamental rule or principle to follow, which will guarantee success.

The skill sets are learnable and it may work for a person but may not work for other. For example, selling is a learnable skill, but all those who learn the skills, does not test success. But as per this books if you learn a skill, you should be successful in that area. The reason is simple; you have only learned the skill but not gone through the universal principle you need follow in this profession. The core principle of selling profession is honesty. If your service or product is not based out on honesty and wellbeing, it will bound to fail, even if you learn and apply, best of the best, selling skills and tool to success.

To kept it simple, skills are only useful it correctly blends with the principle that is lying behind it. 

What is principle-

Principle are universal and it does not change person to person. Skills are, set of techniques that develop as per the potential of the person who practice that.

There are set of principle with every field of our life-

For example, best social and ethical principle that we learn from childhood are, honesty, interiority, morality, sympathy, empathy, kindness etc. These principles are universal and base of any society in the world.  As a part of society we need to follow this principle.

As we said principle are universal, it means, these are the core of our sole existence. If your learned skill sets are not aligning with these principles, you are bound to fail.