Optional thinking: Draft; Un-; Zen; Final
Self-help--Thinkerer
Self-help--Thinkerer
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Draft thinking
- Draft thinking: like draft writing
- Unthinking
- Zen thinking
- Final thinking
Draft thinking
- Draft thinking is like draft writing.
- You follow a trial line of thinking
- You can follow several lines of thought
- And later pick the best
- After you see how the different lines work out
- Mulling it over
- Effective procrastination
- To think through possibilities and alternatives
- To talk to other people about possibilities and alternatives.
- To gather information
- To find out about the costs in money, time, and effort
- To see if your resources are up to the job
- To develop and evaluate tentative plans
- To defer decision and commitment until you believe the payoff is worth the effort.
- To defer decision and commitment until you believe in your plans and resources
- To let other people know your thinking and get their inputs before you commit.
- Arrange cues that fit draft thinking: paper-pencil, computer notepad
- Make notes of ideas, plans, actions, questions as they occur to you.
- Don't censor yourself.
- If you talk to people about it, be clear that this is draft thinking.
- When you think of action, imagine yourself doing the action.
Resources
- Scratch pads
- Pencil
- Computer with notepad
- Web page with search bar
- Un
- Engineer
- Explorer
- Networker
- Storyboarder
- Keep in mind that this thinking is a draft.
- It is not what you will use.
- It is something you will rework later if it looks useful
- Don't throw away ideas. Write notes about them.
- Don't think of any suggestion as something you will definitely do
Unthinking
What’s it for?
Pratfall planning.
- The Un family handles this kind of thinking.
- The opposite of orderly and rigorous thinking.
- This is the basis of
- creativity
- originality
- humor
- brainstorming,
- Also called
- procrastination
- hesitation
- laziness
- ADHD
- To get new ideas
- To talk to other people about new ideas
- To gather information and make new connections among old ideas
- To look for different ways to interpret your goals
- To look for alternative ways to reach your goals
- To understand why this goal is important to you
- Look for assumptions you can question.
- Look for conclusions you can doubt.
- Look for ideas you can reverse.
- Arrange to make notes on scratch paper or yellow pads
- Write down some words that describe what you want to think about
- Be messy. Just write words. Don’t bother with sentences
- Write a few words that describe the goal you are after
- Write a few unusual ways to achieve your goal. Don’t be realistic
- If you talk to people about it, let them know that you are gathering ideas
- Brainstorming, ideation, getting ideas in virtual worlds
Quick Quotes
Pick a page. Pick a quote . Ask yourself how this item fits your task.
Pick a page. Pick a quote . Ask yourself how this item fits your task.
- Quick Quotes about setting goals
- Quick Quotes about confidence
- Quick Quotes about risk
- Quick Quotes about talk
- Quick Quotes about time
- Quick Quotes about starting now
- Un
- Explorer
- Networker
- Storyboarder
- Don’t let your Canter in on this job
- Your Canter just protects you from new ideas
- Save evaluation for later
- Write. Don’t load your brain with stuff to remember
- Don’t stop too soon. You’ll be smarter tomorrow
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Zen thinking
Final Thinking
*****- depends on the quiet parts of your brain
- outside of consciousness
- an idea or a memory pops into your head
- prime your brain by draft thinking
- incubation
- the back burner
- hearing the quiet parts of your brain
- Goofing off
- procrastinating
- indecision
- hesitation
- Get the quiet parts of your brain to work on the problem
- Get new ideas
- Get viewpoints from the quiet parts of your brain
- Be sure you are getting your whole head behind your plan
- Spend some time in draft thinking. Then decide to hold off the decision
- Set the problem aside and see what it looks like in a day or so
- Sleep on the matter
- Or do something completely different. Exercise. Play a game
- Expect that new ideas will bubble up from the quiet parts of your mind
- Expect to think of things you want to investigate
- Never mind. Leave it to the quiet parts of your brain
- Don’t expect anything to happen without draft thinking first
- Don’t expect anything to happen if you have already decided what to do
- Write your ideas. Don’t overload you brain
Final Thinking
- Freezing the design
- Writing the plan
- Setting the schedule
- choosing
- planning
- deciding
- making a commitment
- convergent thinking
- planning
- decisiveness
- determination
- commitment
- Focus on a single alternative.
- Develop concrete plans.
- Set a schedule.
- Get other people involved as needed.
- Write down the steps
- Write on notes or cards that you can easily move around
- The important thing is to list the steps. You can fix the order later
- If you are not sure you know all the steps, go back to draft thinking
- You still reserve the right to change your mind
- Treat this job like writing. Clear writing causes clear thinking
Pratfall plans
- Plan for screw-ups and choke points
- Expect to see sub-problems that will demand draft thinking
- Don’t rule out trial runs
- Now is the time to listen to your Canter. And the Canter in other people
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