Power Process Ideas are tools Why should you
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Power Process Ideas are tools
Why should you think of ideas as tools? • The first thing most people do with new ideas is measure them against old ones – A new idea is likely to be rejected if it conflicts with the old one, and nothing new is learned Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 2
What is the purpose of seeing ideas as tools? • People have plenty of room in their lives for different kinds of hammers • There is an unlimited capacity for different kinds of ideas Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 3
How do I use ideas as tools? • Suspend judgment • Test it out • Evaluate it: If it works use it, if it doesn’t don’t Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 4
What if it’s true? • Instead of asking what’s wrong with this idea? • Ask yourself, what if that idea were true? • This will open new possibilities and options. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 5
Keep looking for answers • Expand your toolbox by continuing to look for answers • When we stop looking for answers, we stop learning • When we look for answers, we uncover fresh possibilities for thinking, feeling, and behaving Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 6
A word of caution: • Any tool, whether it’s a hammer, a computer program, or a study technique, is designed to do a specific job. • If an ideas doesn’t work for you and you are satisfied you gave it a fair chance, don’t throw it away —file it away instead. • The idea might come in handy, sooner than you think Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. 7
