The John Wooden
Framework
Pyramid of Success & Character First
John Wooden extracted peak performance by holding a standard most of their team initially thought impossible. John Wooden's leadership patterns — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The pyramid of success & character first framework distils John Wooden's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions John Wooden made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with John Wooden's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of John Wooden's thinking.
Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable. Character precedes competence—you build the foundation blocks of industriousness, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, and enthusiasm before pursuing skill and competitive fire. The pyramid structure means you cannot skip levels; each tier must be solid before advancing to the next.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
"Are you making the effort to do the best of which you're capable?"
4 more questions in John Wooden's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics John Wooden actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in John Wooden's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like John Wooden, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →john-wooden.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →john-wooden-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of John Wooden. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.