The responsibility principle seeks to change our notion of what it is to take responsibility for yourself. It urges the reader to recognize and identify responsibility-avoiding behaviors and patterns in business and professional life. Responsibility means taking accountability for and recognize our role in what happens to us.
Many things are out of our control, says the author, but we are always responsible for how we respond.
The book circles back after the Responsibility Principle and asks the reader to go back to that history of self and friends written earlier and re-examine what they wrote. What patterns do you see?