The framework behind the tools
Human AF
Six steps for everyday tasks, relationships, work, and finding a way back. Build speed helps you set up your systems. Rescue speed helps you use them when you’re stuck.
Notice, Normalize, Name, Narrow, Nudge, Nurture. Narrow plans the next few moves. Nudge makes the first one.
THE FRAMEWORK BEHIND THE TOOLS
One method. Two speeds.
Human AF connects the tools in Built For Chaos: Notice, Normalize, Name, Narrow, Nudge, and Nurture. Use the same six steps for everyday tasks, relationships, work, and finding a way back.
Narrow plans the next few moves. Nudge makes the first one.
Build speed
Work on your patterns and systems over days and weeks. The chapters show how, with a Run the Method example at the end of Chapters 1 through 9.
Rescue speed
When you’re stuck right now, use the Go-Bag card to name what’s happening, plan the next few moves, and make the first one.
The six steps
Keep the whole sequence in view.
- 01
Notice
Observe without judgment. What is actually happening right now?
- 02
Normalize
This is how your brain works. Drop the blame so you can work with what’s happening.
- 03
Name
Label it precisely. Make up the name if you have to.
- 04
Narrow
Plan the next few actions that matter. Just the next three moves.
- 05
Nudge
Make the first move. Only that one.
- 06
Nurture
Refuel the brain that got you through it. Build rest and support into the system.
Rescue speed in practice
A proposal that won’t start.
From Matt’s ninety-second walkthrough in the book, pages 12-13. Follow the same situation through all six steps.
Notice
The proposal is due Thursday. The document has been open since lunch, but Matt has only written and rewritten the title. He notices he’s sitting near the work rather than doing it.
Keep it close
The method card, ready when you need it.
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