Principlev1
Establish personal baseline ranges for each tracked emotion
Establish personal baseline ranges for each tracked emotion to distinguish between common-cause variation (normal fluctuation) and special-cause variation (signal requiring investigation).
Why This Is a Principle
Derives directly from Process variation consists of two fundamentally different (process variation has two types: common cause inherent to system, special cause from disruptions). Applied to emotional experience: knowing your typical anxiety range of 2-4 makes a 6 identifiable as a deviation worth investigating. Goals as Perceptual Filters (goals function as perceptual filters) explains why the baseline serves as detection criterion.