How often do you use these Engineer tips in thinking?
Never:  Never use it: 
Try:  Might try it.
Use:  Use it as needed.
Tell: Tell it to people who could use it

Nobody does anything in the abstract.

Abstract can be harder than concrete.

The Thinker is just a rump on a stump until he gets up and does something.

For draft thinking, make notes on draft paper.

You know what it means to abstract something.  Do you know what it means to concretize something?

When?  When does this have to be done?  What would the schedule be?