How to get into Second Life without really trying

Selby Evans is Thinkerer Melville in Second Life

Draft thinking is like draft writing.  You make up stories in your head about how you might get things to work out the way you want them to.

Other names you might call it:  Planning, hesitation, mulling it over.

The early bird gets the worm. 
But the second mouse gets the cheese.

Names other people may call it.  Procrastinating, daydreaming, hesitation, uncertainty, indecision.

What’s it for? 
To think through possibilities and alternatives.
To talk to other people about possibilities and alternatives. 
To gather information. 
To find out about the costs in money, time, and effort. 
To see if your resources are up to the job.
To develop and evaluate tentative plans. 
To defer decision and commitment until you believe the payoff is worth the effort. 
To defer decision and commitment until you believe in your plans and resources.
To let other people know your thinking and get their inputs before you commit.   

How do you do it? 
Arrange things to remind you and other people that you are doing draft thinking. 
If you talk to people about it, let them know that you are doing draft thinking. 
Arrange to make notes on scratch paper or yellow pads. 
Write a list of things you may want to find out about.
Imagine stories in your head.  Vary the stories.  See how they come out.

Resources
Goals
Your Head Teams
Choose Page
Plan Page
Meet Your Head Staff

Strengths for draft thinking
Ambiguity, Can Tolerate
Creative
Curious
Focused
Goal Setter, Good
Humor, Sense of
Imagery, Good
Imaginative
Logical
Practical
Resourceful
Self-confident

Next step:  Most likely Zen thinking.  Maybe Unthinking if you find a place where you need more ideas.  Eventually, you’ll have to go to Final thinking.