How to get into Second Life without really trying
Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
Why do you call them tools when they are just words?
They are not tools for people who treat them as just words. Just words call for just reading. Tools call for doing. A hammer in your hand is a tool. A hammer on the wall is just a dust-catcher. The thinkering tools are tools for those who use them.
Sample your brainpower
Know what your supermarket knows.
Market to your brain
Everybody else does it. Why not you?
Where did the thinkering tools come from?
We took some of the ideas from advertising and marketing.
If it’s good enough for General Motors,
it’s good enough for you.
We also took ideas from games, fashion statements and theatrical works. We took the content from standard psychology. But we made the tools out of things that are a lot more popular than psychology.
Most anything is more popular than psychology.
Signs, symbols, flags,
emblems, charms
Clothes make the man, but any sign makes a statement.
Spells, incantations,
mottoes, sayings, quotations, slogans
The secrets of the moderns.
Literary Devices
The truth about myths
A quick check on your brainpower.
Remember when you had a good idea, but too late to use it?
Remember a conversation when you thought of what you should have said after the conversation was over?
Remember a problem that you dealt with and later realized that you could have handled better?
If you don’t remember any of these times, you are already perfect. Or you have really bad memory problems.
If you do remember times like these, you know that you had brainpower you didn't use. Until too late. You didn't bring your brain up to full power at the right time.
There is a time for everything.
A time to plan. A time to act.
A time to know what time it is.
Head Office
You are never alone when you know the people in your head..
Strengths
Skills you are already good at.
Exercises The page I swore I would not make.
(Now I know why my grandmother told me not to swear.)