Brian Johnson teaches the 5% solution, a method from Steve Chandler that uses sentence stems like "If I brought 5% more awareness to this challenge, then I would" to generate small, actionable improvements. The technique relies on stream-of-consciousness writing to compound small gains over time.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class.
This one is on the 5% solution.
It's inspired by Crazy Good by Steve Chandler.
In that book, Steve talks about his.
Work with Nathaniel Brandon, author of the.
Six Pillars of Self Esteem, which we also profile. And he came up with this great concept called sentence stem completion. Sentence stem completion, which helps us realize and tap into the wisdom we already have within ourselves. It also helps us make incremental improvements so we get in trouble when we try to go from totally not together to, oh, I'm perfect, right?
I'm just going to make that big leap done, never going to think about it again.
That's just not how it works. We can improve 5% though. We can overwhelm ourselves by thinking we.
Need to be perfect right now and.
Make a huge leap or we can get 5% better and then 5% more better and then 5% better from there. And 5%, 5%, 5%, 5%, 5 percent, 5%. Pretty soon you've covered that distance of where you were and where you wanted to be over the long run in a much more mature and wise way. So sentence stem completion works like this. We ask ourselves, if I brought. If I brought 5% more awareness to whatever's happening in my life, so think of a challenge that you have right now. What's stressing you out? And then think, If I brought 5% more awareness to this challenge, then what would you do? Finish that sentence. If I brought 5% more awareness to this challenge, then I would do this. And I would do this. The stream of consciousness. No pressure.
You don't need to get it perfect.
And I do this too. Oh, and I do that. Oh, and I do that. What you'd find is you're going to come up with tiny little solutions. 5%. Anybody can do 5%. But if you think you need to have 1,005%, you need to go from the one place of not quite having it figured out to having it totally figured out. You're going to overwhelm yourself and crack open another beer or turn on it, the TV or Internet or whatever you do to numb yourself, make it easy. If you brought 5% more awareness to the challenge you're facing right now, stream of consciousness. Then what? Six things. Sentence stem completion, 5% solutions.
Take some time. Do this not only now, but anytime.
You feel stressed out. If you brought 5% more awareness, what would you do?
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