1. Power Process Ideas are tools

2. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Ideas are tools - 2 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

3. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Ideas are tools - 3 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

4. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Ideas are tools - 4 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

5. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Ideas are tools - 5 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.

6. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Ideas are tools - 6 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

7. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Ideas are tools - 7 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