Frameworks to help us to fulfil our potential
We can’t do our best if we don’t first understand how we tick, then how we ‘hum’.
This is why I have spent many years thinking about the essentials of human nature, human needs, and optimal human performance, before distilling my understanding into the simplest of diagrams and tables.
- Simon Hertnon’s Helpful Information Framework
- Simon Hertnon’s Optimal Knowledge Working Framework
- Simon Hertnon’s Optimal Performance Framework
- Simon Hertnon’s Theory of Universal Human Needs
You can download the last three frameworks from the Nakedize shop. Nakedize is Simon’s company.
Deeply-considered frameworks unlock the peaceful efficiency of universal truths
Whilst there is widespread variation in how we humans go about satisfying our needs and achieving our goals, the essential ingredients and recipes are (more or less) universal.
Much of the variation in our actions is desirable: it permits creativity and flair, which isn’t just fun, it is also how we experiment and, ultimately, realise enhancements.
But much of the variation is unwanted: people acting unwisely in ways that prevent them from fulfilling their potential and which cause unintentional harm to society.
The quality of our lives reflects the quality of the systems by which we live, and those systems need to be designed and updated through critical and creative thinking.
If we remain so busy consuming non-essential products, services, and information that we don’t leave time to think deeply, the foundations of society will degrade.
My frameworks are for anyone, anywhere, anytime
Each framework is the product of years of consideration but is fewer than 100 words long. I hope they strengthen your own foundations for making wise choices about how to spend your time and energy.
But please remember, they are frameworks, not scripts: it is up to you to design your own unique collection of choices and actions that amount to your contributions and impacts.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
—Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452—1519)