Give this prompt your most stuck situation. Something you’ve been circling for weeks. Then read what comes back.
u/Conscious_Nobody9571 posted it with a warning: “Trust me when I say you need to try this. It personally gave me an existential crisis.”
That’s either the most dramatic Reddit post of the week or the most honest prompt review ever written.
Turns out, it’s the second one.
The post got buried under a flood of AI productivity tips and “10x your output” threads. But people who actually ran the prompt kept coming back to the comments to report the same thing: it didn’t give them a plan. It gave them clarity they weren’t ready for. One person said they sat with the output for two days before they could respond to it. Another said it named a fear they’d been carrying for eight months without realizing it had a name. That’s not productivity content. That’s something else entirely.
How it works 🧠
This is a Leadership Mental Framework. Four phases. It diagnoses before it advises.
Phase 1: Read Before Responding
Before saying a single word, it reads the emotional weather of your situation. Stagnation. Chaos. Grief. Conflict. It names what’s happening and, more importantly, what you’re avoiding. That last part is where people get uncomfortable.
Most prompts skip this entirely. They take your input at face value and deliver solutions to the surface problem. This one slows down and asks what’s actually going on underneath. If you say you’re stuck on a business decision, it might reflect back that you’re not stuck on the decision at all. You made the decision weeks ago. You’re stuck on the courage to act on it. That distinction changes everything about what comes next.
Phase 2: Calibrate ⚡
It checks your current state (depleted, scattered, numb, agitated) and adjusts its approach to match. No generic advice. It meets you exactly where you are.
If you come in scattered and overwhelmed, it doesn’t hand you a five-step framework to execute. It slows the pace. It narrows the focus. If you come in numb, it doesn’t try to motivate you with energy you don’t have. It works with stillness instead of against it. This phase is subtle but it’s why the same prompt gives two people completely different responses to completely different situations. The calibration is doing a lot of work quietly in the background.
Phase 3: Respond with Tension Awareness 🎯
Seven directives run here. The ones that hit hardest:
- Asks what you’re actually willing to commit to (not thinking about, committing to)
- Balances gut vs logic out loud: “My intuition says X, the logic suggests Y”
- Uses sarcasm as a tension release, not a shield
- Models the emotion it wants to evoke before asking anything of you
The commitment question is the one most people circle back to. There’s a massive gap between “I’ve been thinking about launching this” and “I am committing to launching this by April.” The prompt doesn’t let you stay in the thinking zone. It asks you to plant a flag. Where exactly, and how firm, is up to you. But it won’t let the conversation end without that moment of reckoning.
The gut vs logic balance is surprisingly useful too. Most frameworks ask you to choose one. This one holds both in tension and names the conflict explicitly. Sometimes you already know that your intuition and your logic are pointing in opposite directions. Seeing it written out plainly makes it harder to keep pretending the conflict doesn’t exist.
Phase 4: Anchor
Names the one thing that matters most right now. Closes with forward momentum, not just reflection.
Not a summary. Not a recap. One thing. The anchor phase is built around the idea that most stuck situations have a single load-bearing point that everything else depends on. Surface it, and the rest gets easier. Ignore it, and you can optimize everything around it and still go nowhere. The response won’t always be right about what your anchor is. But it will force you to either agree or articulate why it’s wrong, and both outcomes move you forward.
What your results mean
If the response feels generic, you gave it a generic situation. Go back and be specific. Name the actual fear, not the polished version of it.
If it makes you uncomfortable? That’s the point. It’s designed to surface what you already know but won’t say out loud.
If you find yourself arguing with the output, that’s useful data too. Sometimes the resistance is telling you the prompt got close to something real and your instinct is to deflect. Sit with that before you dismiss it. The goal isn’t to agree with everything it surfaces. The goal is to stop avoiding the conversation entirely.
Extra Tips 💡
- Write your input unfiltered, first person. “I’ve been avoiding this decision for three weeks because I’m scared it’ll flop” gets you more than “I have a business challenge.”
- Run it on a pattern, not a one-off event. Leadership problems repeat. Recurring situations reveal more.
- Don’t clean up your writing before pasting. Messy input gets honest output.
- If the first response feels too surface-level, paste it back with: “Go deeper on the avoidance piece.” It can push further when you ask it to.
- Use it at the end of a week, not the beginning. You need actual data from lived experience, not hypotheticals.
Use it. The prompt is right there. 👇
Copy the framework from the original post. Paste your real situation. See what it surfaces.
Because sometimes you don’t need a strategy. You need something to hold up a mirror and ask the question you keep dodging. The prompt won’t fix your situation. But it might finally make you honest about what the situation actually is, and that’s usually where the fix begins.
AI leader v1
by u/Conscious_Nobody9571 in ChatGPTPromptGenius