Tools: Slightly Slower Tricks  

Your brain is full of possibilities.  Things it can do for you.  But just when you want your brain to do its best work, it will be too busy to keep track of all that potential. 

Potential means you haven't done it yet.

What to do?  Fortunately, there is a huge industry devoted to getting your brain to do what somebody else wants it to do.   You can use the same tricks.

Market to your brain. 

 

 

Marketing to your brain:

Cue deck
Ad people would kill to get their stuff in this.

Cuepons suggest one way to start marketing to your brain. These cards cue your brain to remember its possibilities.  But your brain has possibilities not in our set of Cuepons.  So now for the next trick.

Cuepons

Bring your own tricks.  Start watching for other things your brain can do.  When you notice something that is worth remembering, look for a cue to remind you about it.  You can use your local word processor to collect the cues in a file.  Print them out and use them just like the Cuepons.   

Your Skill Set
Check your assets.  
Maybe you really are underrated.

Your Head Team
Getting to know you

And now for another card trick:  Remember, we promised tools to harness the skills you already have to the things you want to do.  That takes three steps:

Know what you want to do:

Know your skills: 

Know how to manage your skills as a team. 

Meet Your Head Staff

Strengths
Skills you are already good at.

Exercises

Don’t stop with the Thinkerer.  You are looking for ideas about what your brain can do.  You will find some of the answers in what you do.  You will find other answers in what other people do, as you see that you can do the same.    

Careful.  You may get to be arrogant.

As your collection builds, your set of cues will tell you things about yourself.    There may be another adventure there.

Clipits

The Startalittles

Gather you own Thinkerer's kit

You may want to print out some of the pages mentioned in the right column here.  You could print your selection of Cuepons and use them as your personal cue deck.

One possible use is suggested in the page on semi-structured brainstorming. 

 

Thinkerer's Kit  (.pdf format)

 

Semi-Structured Brainstorming

The Thinkerer 05/11/2008
Copyright (c) D. F. Dansereau & S. H. Evans

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