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>> It Begins You would not be wrong to describe me as a tool hopper.

Ever on the hunt for the..

As I spend more time thinking, about thinking, I suspect my reasoning for jumping often is that I’m not good at distinguishing between the type of thinking I want to perform.

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which tools best support which type of thinking?

Generally I’m so engrossed in my goal, or some desired outcome, that I’m not pausing to consider what I need to do to reach there - other than, well, just doing what I (think I) need to do to get there!

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which outcomes do each tool/type lend themselves toward?

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when do we transition from one thought mode to another? Do we always need to?

Often, I suspect, we should let our dreams be dreams!

At least long enough for us to know whether, or how, to act on them.

So, I want to breakdown the types of thought activity we perform and weigh them against the “tools for thinking” out there.

Ideation

Brainstorm

Writing

Reading

Thinking

Dreaming

Learning

Note taking

Testing

Spaced repetition

Free recall

Planning

Kanban

Scrum

Meetings