How to get into Second Life without really trying
Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
The Thinker is sitting there trying to figure things out. Thinking is what you do in your head to figure things out. Like deciding how to spend your weekends or what you will say to your boss when you ask for a raise. The Thinker sits there lost in thought.
Maybe that stump should have a flush handle.
That’s the trouble with thinking. It is easier to get lost than it is to get things done. Thinking uses the language channel. That's the part of your brain that handles talking. Nothing gets done until you get the other parts of your brain on the job.
The Thinker is just a rump on a stump
until he gets up and does something useful.
Now imagine the tinkerer. Tinkering is what you do when you try to get something to work. Like smacking the side of a vending machine or sticking a knife in a toaster to get your pop-tart out. Or like inventing a better toaster.
The tinkerer is up and doing . He is carrying a tool kit. He is trying to figure out why something works the way it does. Or maybe he’s trying to figure out what he could do to fix it.
If God had wanted people to be smart,
He would have given them brains.
People can think. People can tinker. People can put the jobs together. We call that thinkering. Getting those talents together is a simple way to get more out of your brain.
I've got brains I haven’t even used yet.
It is simple, that is, if you use the right tools to help your brain keep track of what you want it to be doing.
Three easy steps to boosting your brainpower.
Sorry. We don't even have the 157 really hard steps to boosting your brainpower. We do have some simple tools to harness the abilities you already have to the things you want to do. And even some tools to help you figure out what you want to do.
Illustrations:
The Secret of the Instruction Manual
Instant Thinkering. No waiting.
Cuepons. Head Starts.
Your Head Team
Getting to know you
Strengths
Analytic
Concretizer
Creative
Deliberate
Forecaster
Goal Setter, Good
Learn, Willing to
Logical
Organized
Planner, Good
Skeptical